Resourceful purloiners involved in the Nazi German war, Schmidt and Muller created the opportunity to embed themselves, as important individuals in the German intelligence that had a ravenous for results. Schmidt used his understanding of psychology to his advantage. At the end of WWII, Schmidt and Muller unsuccessfully attempted to pursue Allied Intelligence with the intent to continue their system. Additionally, counterintelligence (CI) agents conducting the investigation Schmidt and Muller were successful, during interrogation. It was beneficial to the investigation that the agents charged with conducting the investigation were familiar with the two individuals and know that they were not what they portrayed to be. The condition in, which the two men were placed during interrogation allowed the interrogator to collect information of intelligence value. …show more content…
This CI agent interrogated Schmidt and Muller utilizing a combination of interrogation approaches, which proved successful. Schmidt and Muller were robust men (Johnson,2009). However, disorientation and isolation broke their silence. Countermeasures in place and detailed vetting process proves to discourage and detect resourceful frauds, such as Schmidt and Muller. Should these countermeasures been in place during Schmidt and Muller’s adventurous questionable intelligence activities, they would have been discovered prior to them embedding themselves into persuading German and Allied Intelligence with the use of Open Source Intelligence. Lastly, polygraphs are another tool that is beneficial in detecting deception and