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  8-26. Similarly, supervisors should question the appropriateness of
  demeaning any racial group, including the source’s, to elicit an emotional
  response during an interrogation approach.
  8-27. One common danger to the use of emotional approaches is the
  development of an emotional attachment on the part of the HUMINT
  collector. It is natural that a source will develop an emotional attachment to
  the HUMINT collector. The HUMINT collector will often foster this
  attachment. However, it is vital the HUMINT collector not develop a
  corresponding emotional attachment to the source. This problem normally
  develops when a HUMINT collector has contact with one source or a group of
  similar sources over an extended period of time. There is transference of the
  source’s problems to the HUMINT collector. For example, HUMINT
  collectors working in a refugee camp frequently begin to view the welfare of
  the refugees as a greater concern than HUMINT collection. The HUMINT
  collector, while developing emotion within the source, must act believably but
  at the same time he must remain detached. He must remember that the
  emotion is a means to an end (that is, information collection). Supervisors
  must carefully observe HUMINT collectors for signs of this emotional
  attachment to the source and take appropriate action ranging from
  counseling to reassignment.
  8-28. The following are types of emotional approaches.
  Emotional Love Approach
  8-29. (Interrogation and Other MSO) Love in its many forms (friendship,
  comradeship, patriotism, love of family) is a dominant emotion for most
  people. The HUMINT collector focuses on the anxiety felt by the source about
  the circumstances in which he finds himself, his isolation from those he loves,
  and his feelings of helplessness. The HUMINT collector directs the love the
  source feels toward the appropriate object: family, homeland, or comrades. If
  the HUMINT collector can show the source what the source himself can do to
  alter or improve his situation or the situation of the object of his emotion, the
  approach has a chance of success.
  8-30. The key to the successful use of this approach is to identify an action
  that can realistically evoke this emotion (an incentive) that can be tied to a
  detained source’s cooperation. For example, if the source cooperates, he can
  see his family sooner, end the war, protect his comrades, help his country,
  help his ethnic group. A good HUMINT collector will usually orchestrate
  some futility with an emotional love approach to hasten the source's reaching
  the breaking point. In other words if the source does not cooperate, these
  things may never happen or be delayed in happening. Sincerity and
  conviction are critical in a successful attempt at an emotional love approach
  as the HUMINT collector must show genuine concern for the source, and for
  the object at which the HUMINT collector is directing the source's emotion.
  The emotional love approach may be used in any MSO where the source’s
  state of mind indicates that the approach may be effective.