Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Mark Fallon is Director of ClubFed, LLC, advancing science-based interviewing and interrogation, and has been an expert consultant on interrogation for the Department of Defense (DOD) Military Commission Defense Organization since 2016. While a Visiting Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he Co-Founded Project Aletheia, a center established to bridge the gap between the science and practice of interrogation. Mark is on the Advisory Council of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had served as the Interim Executive Director. Mark is on the Steering Committee of Experts that oversaw the development of the Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing. Mark retired from the Senior Executive Service (SES) after 31 years of federal service as the Assistant Director for Training of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). He served as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism, Director of the NCIS Training Academy and Chief of Counterintelligence Operations for the Europe, Africa and Middle East Division. Following the attacks of 9/11, Mark was appointed Special Agent-in-Charge of the Pentagon Task Force established to bring terrorists to justice before Military Commissions. In June 2023, Mark testified in Guantanamo about the challenges of leading during crisis in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, and science-based effective interviewing practices. Mark is the Past-Chair of both the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) International Managers of Police Academy and College Training (IMPACT) Section and High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) Research Committee. Mark is the author of Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon and US Government Conspired to Torture (ReganArts, 2017), and is co-editor of Interrogation and Torture: Integrating Efficacy with Law and Morality (Oxford University Press, 2020), and Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II (TOAEP Publication Series, 2023). Read more about this author Read less about this author Read more about this author Read less about this author