FBI mind attack: the super psychological tactics of the US federal police

Chapter 9 Combining Hardness and Softness, Leveraging Strength to Fight Strength——FBI's Super Psychological Code of Combining Hardness and Softness (4)
Sure enough, as expected by the FBI, Stephen Pennell was a murderer of women. In 1992, Stephen was executed by the American police by injection.In fact, just about a year before Stephen Stephen was executed, in 1991, John Douglas used the same method to bring a suspect named George Russell Jr. to justice.Russell was charged with clubbing and strangling three white women in Seattle over the course of a year.In fact, the prosecution knew that the police had convincing evidence in only one of the three cases, but they could not use it to convict Russell in the other two cases.However, the police believed that they already had enough evidence in one of the cases, and the evidence could also prove that Russell was the culprit in the other two cases.Therefore, the police will only win if they bundle the three cases together.

In the eyes of everyone, Russell is a black man about 30 years old, very handsome, good at communication, and has extensive interpersonal relationships.More importantly, although Russell has a long-term habit of petty theft, no one would think that he would commit heinous murders.At that time, it was the time when society was developing in a more open direction, and people gradually no longer cared about the differences between races. Russell was a person who could do well in social situations. There are friends of all races.This makes it more difficult for the FBI to solve the case.Before the public trial, because the police had already assumed that the three murders were not committed by the same murderer, public defender Miriam Schwartz asked the judge to "try the three cases separately" before the public trial.Whether the court approves this request is directly related to whether Russell can be convicted as the murderer in the three cases.At this time, prosecutors Roger and Baird asked John Douglas to explain the connection between the three cases, and John Douglas said that the murderer in each case used the method of lightning attacks, and the three cases It happened within seven weeks, so John Douglas didn't think the killer needed to change his modus operandi.In addition, John also told the court the same point of the case: the three female victims were all naked in provocative poses.In John's view, lightning strikes are necessary to kill these women, but it is not necessary to pose these women in this way.John said that the posing is actually the identification mark, and the murderer plays with the victim like a toy, which means that this is a crime of venting anger, a crime of showing power.Immediately afterwards, John said that 90% of the cases may be committed by a single murderer.In fact, John did not say that Russell was the murderer in the three cases at this time, but proved to the court that the murderer in one of the cases was the murderer in all the cases.At this time, Bob, John's old colleague in the FBI, stood up to defend Russell, which surprised John.Later, Bob claimed that he was too busy to attend Russell's trial hearing, which was attended by Russ, another retired agent.After Russ refuted John's point of view, John's colleague Carlo cross-examined him, and Russ was speechless.After a four-day trial, Russell was sentenced to life in prison on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated first-degree murder.

In the process of solving this case, the American police did not set traps, nor did they have too many direct confrontations with the suspect, but used strong evidence to fight back when the other party raised objections.In fact, the same is true in psychological warfare. In many cases, rebuttals do not necessarily bring people the desired results, but proper defense with existing evidence will bring unexpected results to themselves.

If people first affirm the strengths of the other party when engaging in psychological warfare, it will undoubtedly give the other party a taste of sweetness.In this case, the communication barriers between the two parties will be reduced, thus causing the opponent to tell what he has done step by step according to the route he imagined.

In fact, the most important point of psychological warfare is to control one's emotions, and attacking with sugar-coated shells plays exactly this role.From another point of view, this method of attacking the mind can allow the attacker and the person being attacked to consider the problem from the same perspective, which will speed up the attacker's victory in the war of attacking the mind.

6. Infiltrate the opponent first, then engage in psychological warfare

In 2007, the FBI discovered a video involving terrorist activities, and then the FBI began investigating the video.Soon, the FBI confirmed the identities of several young people on the video. Ka and Aloron Abdullahu.Among them, Schneuer is an American citizen, Tatar and Abdullah have obtained permanent residency in the United States, and the three Duka brothers are living in the United States illegally.

After obtaining this video, the investigators of the FBI immediately monitored these people all day long, but in the next more than a month, the investigators did not find anything particularly suspicious about these six people. Only occasionally get together to chat, but investigators don't know what they talked about.Therefore, the FBI decided to send an informant to infiltrate Schneuer's circle of contacts.The informant was instructed that he must successfully approach Schneuer and others, attend more meetings with Schneuer and others, and record the conversations of these people.Afterwards, the FBI will send agents to join him.Sure enough, in April 2006, the informant continuously passed on a large amount of valuable information related to Schneuer and others to the investigators.Through this information, FBI investigators found that the six people including Schneuer had very serious Islamist tendencies, and even circulated and watched some terrorist videos.In this year, the FBI dispatched No.4 informant to infiltrate Schneuer and others. This informant had one-way contact with the previous informant, but the two informants did not know each other's identity.Later, the informant discovered such a situation: Since August 2, the gathering activities of Schneuer and others have increased significantly, which made the investigators have to be more vigilant. On Aug. 2006, the first informant sent back an audio recording of a conversation he had with Schneuer to the FBI.During this conversation, Schneuer told the informant that they had been planning an attack on military bases in the United States a long time ago, and the easiest target for them was the Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey.Obviously, this piece of information means a lot to the FBI and even the United States.

Fort Dix is ​​located southeast of Trenton, New Jersey, adjacent to McGuire Air Force Base.From here, it only takes about three hours to drive to Washington.In the northeastern United States, the Fort Dix military base is the largest military base, where soldiers of the Army Reserve will be trained, and most of the soldiers who complete the training will be sent to the battlefields in Iraq or Afghanistan.At that time, the Fort Dix military base had 1.5 people, including more than 3000 soldiers.In order to protect this important military base, the United States has set up perfectly equipped guards, a lot of detection equipment and concrete barriers at the entrance of the base to prevent outsiders from breaking in.But Schneuer and others ignored all of this and were still plotting an attack against this military base.

Obviously, under such a perfect defense system, relying only on Schneuer and a few others, the plan to attack the Fort Dix military base seems very crazy, but Schneuer doesn't think so, because he thinks Tatar is his trump card— —Tatar is a Turkish immigrant whose father runs a pizzeria near the Fort Dix military base, and Tatar also delivered pizza to the U.S. military at the military base when he was helping in the pizzeria.And it was precisely this opportunity that Tatar learned a lot about the Fort Dix military base, and even knew it well.In Tatar's view, Fort Dix's defense system seemed to be tight, but it was actually very lax. Tens of thousands of people could freely enter and exit the base every day, so it was not difficult to sneak into the base.Tatar even assured Schneuer that he could get a detailed map of Fort Dix from his father's pizzeria.

Schneuer and others have been plotting to attack the Fort Dix military base. They even saved enough money to buy automatic rifles such as AK-47 and M-16, and even prepared to buy RPG rocket launchers and mortars, etc. heavy weapons.Schneuer and others plan to use these weapons to kill 100 to 200 American soldiers.However, Schneuer used the wrong person in this operation, and he was the FBI's first informant.This informant lied to Schneuer that he had served in the Egyptian army and had very rich combat experience.Therefore, Schneuer hoped that this person could train the members of their group in combat skills.And the performance of the FBI's first informant did not disappoint Schneuer and others-in two months, he and Schneuer conducted several reconnaissances against the Fort Dix military base. The terrain around the base, and secretly took photos with a mobile phone.At the same time, the three brothers Tatar and Duka also conducted reconnaissance on the Fort Monmouth Army Base, the Dover Air Force in Delaware, and the Philadelphia Coast Guard station. At the same time, Schneuer and others also listed these military bases. Alternative targets for attack.However, just as the preparations for the terrorist attack were in full swing, the undercover operation of the FBI informant encountered a small twist - Tatar suddenly had doubts about the true identity of the informant.He once directly questioned whether the informant was an undercover agent of the U.S. law enforcement agency, and even complained to Schneuer that "he didn't know the real origin of this person."

In mid-November 2006, Tatar called the Philadelphia police. On the phone, Tatar claimed that someone forced him to obtain a map, and even said that it was probably related to terrorist activities.The real purpose of Tatar's move is very obvious, that is, to obtain the true identity of the informant.However, due to the ingenious response of the investigators and the trust of the informant by the small leader Schneuer, the suspicion of Tatar and others had to be let go.At this time, the informant explained to Schneuer that he could buy more reliable automatic weapons through some channels. After hearing the news, Schneuer was extremely excited and valued the informant even more.

In early February 2007, Schneuer and others went to the Pocono Mountains accompanied by two FBI informants.The Pocono Mountains are located in Pennsylvania. The purpose of Schneuer and others' trip is to practice shooting and other combat skills, and all this has already been informed to the police by FBI informants.So the FBI sent many agents with monitoring and monitoring equipment to secretly track the activities of these people. At the beginning of March, the three brothers Schneuer, Duka and FBI informants once again came to a nearby jungle to play a paintball game. Prepare because they think this kind of game can develop people's tactical literacy.Of course, they were eager for their trusted FBI informants to bring the weapons they needed as soon as possible.However, instead of getting more reliable automatic weapons, they put themselves in jail.

It turned out that during this period, the FBI had collected enough evidence and decided to close the net. One day in May, the FBI's first informant called Schneuer and others according to the FBI's instructions, claiming that he had bought the weapons they needed and notifying them to go to a certain place to receive them.And it was at this agreed place that Schneuer and others were wiped out.

According to the New Jersey state prosecutor's charge, the three brothers Schneuer, Tatar and Duka were guilty of "murder against military personnel", and this crime is very likely to bring the punishment of life imprisonment to the six people. Abdullahu was also charged with helping illegal immigrants obtain weapons, and he could be sentenced to 10 years in prison.

However, many media noticed that just after the case was solved, the family who lived in Cherisyr with the three Duka brothers and had frequent contacts suddenly disappeared.According to the neighbor's recollection, the male owner of this house is Mahmoud, a middle-aged man with brown skin, about 40 years old. This man often talks on the phone or smokes in the corridor of the apartment, but rarely talks with his neighbors. ;According to the memory of a local resident, this person did not leave a good impression on the people around him, because he was always covering up some facts.

Later, Schneuer's mother also confirmed that her son had indeed had a very close relationship with a man named Mahmud.The media believed that this Mahmoud was the FBI's first informant, but the media never found any real information about the second informant.

It is undeniable that the two informants of the FBI made great contributions to the detection of this case.In fact, the method adopted by the FBI in this psychological attack is to sneak into the opponent's interior and then fight the psychological attack, and the two FBI informants played this role.

In the process of solving this case, the psychological attackers who sneaked into the opponent's interior obtained a lot of useful information, and then they used this information to make themselves the victors of the psychological warfare.

(End of this chapter)