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Title: Selection of Personnel for Clandestine Operations: Assessment of Men by Donald W. Fiske, Eugenia Hanfmann, Donald W. Mackinnon, James G. Miller, Henry A. Murray ISBN: 0-89412-202-9 Publisher: Aegean Park Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.80

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Summary: Interesting Document
Comment: This is an unclassified version of a study originally done by OSS psychologists on the selection of personnel suitable for clandestine operations. This means those in which the individual is inserted into enemy territory and then left alone to live under deep cover, always living in a state of stress and tension.
Compare this with covert operations in which groups of individuals are inserted for the purpose of operational support to indigenous forces or for independent raids and sabotage. On covert ops there is usually a safe zone where some can relax and unwind while others watch and the individual is not only armed but often uniformed as well. Wearing a uniform does not protect one from summary execution as a spy if captured but it does gives a valid claim to POW status and one can hope it will be granted.
Thus, it takes a very special mental state to operate alone and to expect nothing but torture and death if captured. And hope that execution will be swift. Few can stand the tension that results from being alone in a hostile environment.