Les tours de magie des Espions de la CIA

[Stéphane BERTHO]

Reconversion professionnelle pour fabricants de topit: https://www.ouest-france.fr/leditiondusoir/2024-03-27/les-services-secrets-francais-recrutent-un-couturier-et-sa-mission-sera-tres-particuliere-fcaefe6d-98e6-4fb0-8b8a-01e5c4a0e572

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deploying-deception-on-the-battlefield/

 

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Deploying Deception on the Battlefield

To avoid or at least control conflict, militaries often play tricks on their opponents’ perceptions 

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“All warfare is based on deception.”
—Sun Tzu, circa sixth century B.C.

Los Angeles is an illusory place. From the magic of Hollywood to the city's surreal atmospheric light, it's easy to feel like physical reality only sometimes coincides with your perceptions. For that reason, L.A. was the perfect backdrop for a special workshop we attended a few years ago, organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop illusions that might help the military—itself a surreal sujet.

 

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[Stéphane BERTHO]

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/allen.php

 

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Deceptionists at War

Martial magic

Jonathan Allen

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The methodology (and lexicons) of the battlefield tactician and that of the magician find much common ground. As a highly skilled misdirector within visual and verbal fields, a magician’s role is to propose one account of reality while another takes quite a different and effective course. Continually decoying, feinting, rusing, and dazzling, magicians are daring choreographers of phantom spaces and gestures, willful and motivated illusion designers—in short exceptionally proficient and opportunistic liars.

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The Moscow Rules d'Antonio et Jonna Mendez (gras ajouté):

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The premise of the JIB [Jack-in-the-Box] revolved around the idea of creating a twin, something very common in the world of magic. Early on, it was discovered that the KGB’s vehicular surveillance teams would usually stay back at a distance. This meant that when they were following their target they tended to count heads or look at silhouettes. A good illusionist always knows that a person’s mind wants to tell itself a story; it tries to rationalize what it sees. In this case, the goal was to get the KGB to believe that the silhouette they were watching belonged to the target they were following, when in fact it didn’t.

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we conjured up an idea to have a “Johnny Jump Up,” an inflatable silhouette, replace the figure of a passenger in a car escape scenario

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At headquarters, the JIB was built out of a Judy doll—a sexy, life-size party doll, blonde, nude, and made of cheap plastic. The CIA bought the Judy dolls from Al’s Magic Shop at Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House, within walking distance of our 2430 E Street offices

 

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Un peu de transformisme (il y a de nombreuses autres mentions de la magie et du monde du cinéma dans le livre):

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A very special tailor in Pennsylvania who also worked for the magic industry had assembled the reversible coat, while one of our magic consultants, Will, out in Los Angeles, had developed the pop-up grocery cart

 

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La guerre psychologique chez les Gaulois:

https://www.guerres-influences.com/asterix-obelix-guerre-psychologique-psyops-zizanie/

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Que sont les opérations psychologiques? Un officier français me faisait récemment remarquer que la meilleure manière de répondre à cette question et d’expliquer à un néophyte ce que sont les fameuses psyops… c’est un album d’Astérix et Obélix. Dans la Zizanie, quinzième opus des aventures des deux Gaulois sorti en 1970, les Romains lancent une campagne d’opérations d’influence contre l’irréductible village.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Zizanie_(Astérix)#Théorie_de_la_communication

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La stratégie de manipulation de Tullius Détritus repose sur une série de paradoxes de la communication : chacun de ses messages est mésinterprété ou surinterprété par ses auditeurs de façon à brouiller leurs repères et leur faire prendre leurs proches pour ce qu'ils ne sont pas

La BD aurait-elle inspiré un film avec Michael J. Fox

https://www.20minutes.fr/arts-stars/culture/4058916-20231026-asterix-iris-blanc-raconte-comment-gourous-menacent

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Sacro-sainte alternance oblige, après l’excellent Astérix et le Griffon qui voyait les Gaulois explorer de lointaines contrées enneigées, cet album [L'Iris blanc] devait se dérouler au village gaulois. FabCaro a choisi d’y introduire un nouveau péril en la personne de Vicévertus, médecin chef des armées de César. L’homme, habile parleur formé à la philosophie grecque, prône la pensée positive pour résoudre les conflits. Il espère ainsi ramollir les Gaulois et les faire adhérer à la pax romana

Idée également vue dans un roman:

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inventer totalement un nouveau récit au service dudit idéal de concorde (ex. : créer une civilisation maya oubliée, les Chupacs – qui, contrairement aux autres Mayas, se serait caractérisée par sa non-violence, sa tolérance et son syncrétisme, dans le 3e tome de la trilogie)

 

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Mentalisme pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale (https://crestresearch.ac.uk/download/2250/report_masterclass_in_eliciting_intelligence_information-2.pdf)

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Scharff had no formal training in interrogation but developed his technique by fi rst observing POWs’ counter-interrogation strategies. His strategy was based on seeing an interview through the interviewee’s eyes so as to anticipate his source’s intentions and reactions. 

Granhag’s team broke down Scharff’s technique in to fi ve core tactics, which they have since been testing in a series of experimental studies:

1. Be friendly. His affable, polite and respectful approach undermined the expectations of POWs and made them more likely to listen to him. Some even commented, in a ‘guestbook’ that Scharff kept, that they enjoyed the experience. 

2. Do not demand information. Scharff asked very few explicit questions, instead eliciting information through apparently innocuous conversation. 

3. Give the illusion of ‘knowing it all’. Scharff opened the interview by saying that the prisoner probably wouldn’t be able to help, and then setting out the evidence he had.

4. Present claims. Scharff would present claims in a creative way that prompted a reaction from the POW, and prompting them to conf i rm or disconf i rm the claim.

5. Downplay the value of elicited information. When POWs gave up information Scharff would ignore it or downplay its importance, so the POW did not realise that he had provided something useful.

 

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