text: FM 2-22.3 _________________________________________________________________________________
  • Identify and describe the significance of the disposition in terms of
  ongoing and future threat operations.
  • Identify and describe key activities, equipment, or organizations at the
  location, as well as people and leaders.
  • Identify and describe all pertinent collocated activities, locations, or
  organizations, as well as people and leaders.
  • Identify the basis (hearsay or personal experience) and DTG of the
  source’s knowledge of each disposition.
  SPECIAL SOURCE CATEGORIES
  9-44. Questioning of every source is unique and requires specific preparation.
  Special consideration and preparation must be made for some specific
  categories of sources. Some examples of special source categories include but
  are not limited to wounded or injured sources or illiterates.
  WOUNDED OR INJURED SOURCES
  9-45. HUMINT collectors may question (interrogate, debrief, or elicit
  information from) a wounded or injured source provided that they obtain
  certification from a competent medical authority that the questioning will not
  delay or hinder medical treatment or cause a worsening of the condition of
  the source. The HUMINT collector can question the source before, after, or
  during medical treatment. The HUMINT collector cannot at any time
  represent himself as being a doctor or any other type of medical personnel or
  member of the ICRC. Nor can he state, imply, or otherwise give the
  impression that any type of medical treatment is conditional on the source’s
  cooperation in answering questions.
  ILLITERATES
  9-46. HUMINT collectors should never make the mistake of equating
  illiteracy with a lack of intelligence or an inability to provide meaningful
  information. In fact, many illiterates have developed extremely good
  memories to compensate for their inability to rely on the written word. An
  illiterate’s frame of reference does not include street signs, mile markers, and
  calendars. It also will probably not include conventional time and distance
  measurements. The HUMINT collector must compensate for these
  differences. Map tracking, for example, must normally be accomplished by
  terrain association. If the source cannot tell time, time of day can be
  determined by the position of the sun.