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abduction had to be sudden. No questions would be answered, no details

given; and a quick move made into a restrained environment, preferably in
darkness. The victim would not know what was happening to him. Next, in
order to break the hostage, you had to make him vulnerable. Keep him in
darkness, but remove all clothing, restrain him, deny him the normal facilities
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of a bathroom and abuse the victim physically, probably by irregular sessions
of violence. These could range from beating up people to giving them so-
called shock or burn treatment.
Allied to these first premises, there was another, possibly the most important

step. The hostage had to be removed from what psychiatrists called ‘normal
daylight patterns’. In simple language, they would be, literally, kept in the dark.
‘Once you have unbalanced a person through abduction, restrained that
person, made that person vulnerable, and disorientated that person by
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removing his time pattern, the rest is relatively simple and can be divided into
three stages,’ Franks continued in his cold, matter-of-fact tone which made
Bond wonder how many times this man had practised these very techniques.
‘You begin to control through random violence and random reward. A

person is beaten up three times in, say, five hours, but between these acts of
violence there is one reward – a glass of water or a hunk of bread, a cigarette
or the use of a bathroom. But always in the dark, always isolated, always
unsure of why this is happening.’

Further, Franks told them, there were other pressures – threats to the
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victim’s family, threats of harsher treatment by some unseen and unknown
person who is painted as a monster, sudden and irrelevant leniency. ‘Four days
of this kind of treatment can, in well-controlled circumstances, bring the victim

to rely wholly on his captor. It is then that the captor makes himself known,
makes promises and begins to show the victim that he is in charge. If the
scenario has been properly played out, then the rest is child’s play. Confused
and lost, the victim will sign anything, give any information, just by being

promised a return to normal life.’
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Again, Franks maintained that so far, all five hostages had described their
treatment in those very terms. They were held in dark cupboards, blindfolded
and chained to the wall, naked and with no room to move. They were beaten up

one minute, given food the next. They all appeared to have lost track of time.
Each one claimed to have suffered horrific humiliation before Brokenclaw
revealed himself as the man who pulled the strings. To clinch it all, they had

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