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Welcome to Elicitation 101 [1]. The author points out one of the most obvious and easily used ones:

Deliberate False Statements / Denial of the Obvious: Say something wrong in the hopes that the person will correct your statement with true information. “Everybody knows that process won’t work—it’s just a DARPA dream project that will never get off the ground.”

[1]http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/counterintelligence/...



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