Spy agencies team up with National Academies

Sounds like the ODNI contracting people were not operators or thinking about non-English speakers, foreign cultures and cross cultural communications!! My favorite comment below:

One area in dire need of better research is figuring out when people are lying, Fein says. After the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he notes, intelligence agencies poured money into research on both mechanical—think polygraphs—and behavioral—think interrogations—methods of detecting deception. But the results were disappointing, recalls Fein, who led a 2006 report on interrogation techniques for the director of national intelligence. "Researchers overpromised," he says, "and there were few useful results after millions of dollars were spent."

Even research that generated solid results had serious flaws, he adds. "For example, none of the studies [of deception] involved people who didn't speak English," Fein notes, making them of questionable value for use in many current hot spots around the globe.