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Elicitation technique

Elicitation technique

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Oct 21, 2026

Ellen NaylorGUEST
49:59
Okay.
Ellen NaylorGUEST
50:00
Elicitation is having a conversation with a person and finding out what it is you're looking for during that conversation, often without them realizing that that's what you were looking for.
Ellen NaylorGUEST
50:14
So you're having a conversation.
Ellen NaylorGUEST
50:17
You're not asking questions.
Chris HadnagyGUEST
61:06
Yeah
Chuck CrumptonHOST
61:07
Elicitation over interrogation
Chris HadnagyGUEST
61:10
Oh, yeah.
Chris HadnagyGUEST
61:10
So elicitation, I define it as, uh, the art of getting information without directly asking for it.
Wesley VirginHOST
5:56
The only way or I would say the most efficient way to get a stranger to trust you on a call is It's just to build rapport, which means just find something about that person that's similar to you.
Wesley VirginHOST
6:11
So I would do something that's called elicitation.
Wesley VirginHOST
6:14
Elicitation, I'm just going to ask you a question.
Wesley VirginHOST
6:16
So I can say, hey, man, where are you from? You're going to say, oh, I'm from, just say you're from Detroit.
Wesley VirginHOST
6:21
I say, oh, man, I got an assistant in Detroit.
Andrew BustamanteHOST
3:26
Not only are the Epstein files exposing a network from the past, but they're being used to create a real-time modern network in the present to show who's the most interested, who's the most at risk, and who are the most powerful players still connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew BustamanteHOST
3:43
The intelligence term for this is called digital elicitation.
Andrew BustamanteHOST
3:46
Elicitation is a skill that you use any time you want to indirectly pull information from a target source, and elicitation has been used for a long time, all the way back to ancient Egypt in the earliest days of recorded intelligence when pharaohs would use slaves and courtesans and soldiers to try to steal information by getting them to talk outside of school, meaning getting them to share more information than they've been approved to share.
Andrew BustamanteHOST
4:11
Elicitation is a structured process that anybody can use if they understand the core foundation of elicitation.
Andrew BustamanteHOST
4:18
If you haven't discovered your natural born spy skills, then somebody else might be using theirs against you.
Andrew BustamanteHOST
4:25
CIA teaches us that there are only three types of people in the world: those who motivate, those who manipulate, and those who are being controlled by one of the other two.

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Andrew BustamanteHOST
12:17
But I don't want you to get distracted thinking that people are trying to find intelligence inside the files themselves.
Andrew BustamanteHOST
12:23
I want you to look at this whole thing as a form of digital elicitation, an operation to collect sensitive information based on the release of the files themselves, not the information that's actually contained inside the files.

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