FBI - 揭密联邦调查局 - 14

They had assault weapons, they had some AK47s, they had a Louis machinegun that they were mounting on an armored car they were building. They had plenty more mine type of devices, they had hand grenades, they had a LAW rocket which will knock out a light tank. They were very very formidable.

Now Coulson takes us back to the scene to recount the tense showdown with the CSA.

then the main compound was very heavily fortified¹, the stone buildings had pillboxes. It was protected by explosives.

Coulson’s first move is to surround the compound with 200 FBI agents and dozens of state and local police, making escape impossible. The FBI’s secret plan is to use reverse psychology², not to attack as the CSA is expecting, but to do the opposite.

Their religion taught them that when the government came, we would attack them and they would have to defend themselves. And if nobody was attacked, it really did them off balance.

Coulson’s strategy is to wait it out and lure³ the CSA into negotiating.

This is more of a psychological operation. It was a tactical operation. The psychologying was basically be patient, negotiate, talk to them, make them appear hopeless that they can’t get out. If you want to get into this and again we wouldn’t want to hurt anybody but also that we had tremendous firepower and I want them to understand that, that if there’s a firefight there, they’re gonna lose it.

The CSA makes it clear that they would rather fight than talk.

James Allison will not surrender to the authorities, we no longer feel that the people of this country and especially those involved with the right wing can receive absolute justice from the court system. The ??? is here and now I need to get back, thank you.

That’s Allison’s right hand man, Kerry Noble, who has also agreed to revisit the scene of the standoff. Noble reveals that the CSA was scheming to draw the Feds into a violent gun battle.

What we were hoping for and expecting was that once they’d go and came in on us and we started the shootout and the war. That others would come in also. And started a chain reaction of Domino effect that would cause uprisings throughout the country. That would just keep going, keep going, escalating⁵ snowballing effect to where the apocalypse would come in which would usher⁶ in the second coming of Christ.

But the FBI is about to deploy⁷ another secret tactic⁴, they will try to trick the CSA into believing that it has choices and even some control over the outcome of the standoff.

The secret of bringing some one to your point of view is options. What kind of options you give them. Now we give them two options, one was to engage in a war here and lose it or to talk and to live.

Coulson’s plan works. Allison finally agrees to meet with the FBI. But this won’t be an ordinary negotiation⁸, Allison will only talk directly to Agent Coulson.

Allison would only talk to a tactical person, and a commander. He viewed himself as a commander. He wouldn’t be about to talk to a subordinate negotiator. It makes sense although it was a violation⁹ of the FBI’s policy at the time to do that.

Coulson uses the unusual face-to-face meeting to attempt the next phase of his strategy which is to make the militia¹⁰ leader feel important.

We didn’t try to intimidate¹¹ him, we didn’t yell at him, we didn’t make demand. We just talked in a very calm way just like we are talking here today. I felt right then that I won him over.

1 fortified   

adj. 加强的

参考例句：

• He fortified himself against the cold with a hot drink. 他喝了一杯热饮御寒。
• The enemy drew back into a few fortified points. 敌人收缩到几个据点里。

2 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

3 lure   

n.吸引人的东西，诱惑物；vt.引诱，吸引

参考例句：

• Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
• He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。

4 tactic   

n.战略，策略；adj.战术的，有策略的

参考例句：

• Reducing prices is a common sales tactic.降价是常用的销售策略。
• She had often used the tactic of threatening to resign.她惯用以辞职相威胁的手法。

5 escalating   

v.（使）逐步升级( escalate的现在分词 )；（使）逐步扩大；（使）更高；（使）更大

参考例句：

• The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句

6 usher   

n.带位员，招待员；vt.引导，护送；vi.做招待，担任引座员

参考例句：

• The usher seated us in the front row.引座员让我们在前排就座。
• They were quickly ushered away.他们被迅速领开。

7 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

8 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。

9 violation   

n.违反(行为)，违背(行为)，侵犯

参考例句：

• He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说，那是违反规则的。
• He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。

10 militia   

n.民兵，民兵组织

参考例句：

• First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
• There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。

11 intimidate   

vt.恐吓，威胁

参考例句：

• You think you can intimidate people into doing what you want?你以为你可以威胁别人做任何事？
• The first strike capacity is intended mainly to intimidate adversary.第一次攻击的武力主要是用来吓阻敌方的。