# Chase Hughes — Public Knowledge Compendium

**Compiled:** 2026-04-26 from 20 parallel research agents.
**Scope:** Free, publicly-accessible material only — YouTube, podcasts, Hughes' own free downloads, third-party summaries, peer-reviewed critiques. Not a substitute for *The Behavior Operations Manual* (BOM); a structured map of what is freely available, organised against the BOM's section structure.
**Tagging convention:** `[sourced: …]` = externally-citable. `[pattern: weak signal]` = inferred. `[no basis]` = neither.

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## 0. Top-line corrections worth pinning

1. **"AIM" is not a Chase Hughes framework.** Three agents independently searched his site, NCI University, every major podcast appearance, his Medium archive, and Grokipedia. No public source attributes an "A-I-M" model to him. The closest letter-collisions are *MACCI* (5 outward signs of authority) and "aiming language" (a technique, not a framework). His named acronyms are **FATE, PCP, Six-Axis, ACSS, CDLGE/MACCI, BTE, SMX, FEAR, T.F.C.A.** — that's the real list. `[sourced: agent triangulation across chasehughes.com, nci.university, jordanharbinger.com, singjupost.com, grokipedia.com]`
2. **Credibility caveat is load-bearing.** Independent journalist Zachary Elwood (*People Who Read People*) and former CIA officer Kent Clizbe have published documented challenges to Hughes' military/intel credentials and originality (much of his hypnosis/rapport methodology is repackaged 1980s NLP). The *techniques* are useful; the *provenance* he attaches to them is contested. Treat the frameworks as structured observation grids, not validated science. `[sourced: behavior-podcast.com; kentclizbe.substack.com; factually.co]`
3. **The strongest single empirical anchor is Cialdini, not Ekman.** The CIA itself migrated from MICE to a Cialdini-shaped framework called RASCLS in 2013 (Burkett, *Studies in Intelligence* 57(1)). Cialdini-shaped portions of Hughes' work inherit decades of peer-reviewed support. The microexpression-based-deception-detection portions inherit a literature that has largely failed to replicate (Jordan et al. 2019; PMC 6158306). Calibrate accordingly. `[sourced: CIA Studies in Intelligence; Jordan et al. 2019]`

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## 1. The BOM Section Map (the scaffold)

Reconstructed at ~85% confidence from Amazon/Goodreads snippets, NCI marketing copy, the StudyLib partial TOC, and podcast interviews where Hughes describes the structure. The book uses **Section** (S-01…S-11) as its top level — no traditional chapters; sub-headings under each section function as chapters.

| # | Section | Public-material density | Free PDF coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| **S-01** | The Pillars of Human Influence (Maslow, FATE, Six-Axis, Authority Triangle, Hierarchy of Influence, Skills Map) | High | FATE explained free; Six-Axis explained free |
| **S-02** | The Neurology of Influence (brain structure & chemistry as decision drivers) | Low — mostly podcast asides | None |
| **S-03** | Authority and Obedience (HAI, CDLGE pillars, MACCI signs, Composure, Charisma, Limiting Beliefs, Lifestyle Traits, Dopamine Deception) | Very high | HAI worksheet PDF (Art of Manliness mirror) |
| **S-04** | The Behavioral Table of Elements (BTE) — reading behavior, the elements | Very high | **Multiple official PDFs** — see §4 |
| **S-05** | Profiling Human Behavior (sensory preferences, pronoun/adjective analysis, quadrants, Behavior Compass, Needs/Decision/Values Maps) | High | Needs Map PDF, Decision Map PDF, Behavior Compass PDF, Profile Worksheet, Visual Needs ID |
| **S-06** | Mastering the Social Frame *(inferred title, ~130 techniques)* | Medium | None confirmed |
| **S-07** | Enhanced Influence (Business of Permission, Grief Process, Sales Objections, Confusion Weapon, Hypnosis, Scripts, Scarcity, Physical Contact) | Medium | None |
| **S-08** | The Tactical Formulas of Influence (incl. KAPTOR Protocol) | Low — KAPTOR is mostly book-only | None |
| **S-09** | Interrogation Protocols / Hughes Interrogation Protocol (HBI), elicitation step-by-step | High | None — but Shawn Ryan #253 + JRE #2278 are richest free sources |
| **S-10** | Operator Skills & Drills (Skills Assessment, Linguistics Drills, Needs Map Drills, Decision Map L1+L2, Values Map Drills) | Low — drills are book-only | None |
| **S-11** | Resources and Graphics (Embedded Commands, neurotransmitters, HBI model, Trial Science) | Medium | Some graphics in free PDFs |

**Sub-heading lists for S-01, S-03, S-04, S-05, S-07, S-08, S-11 were partially confirmed from public TOC fragments. S-02, S-06, S-10 weakest. Numbering of S-02/S-03 is inferred ordering, not directly confirmed.** `[sourced: Amazon listing, NCI Ops Manual page, keynotebooks.com summary, StudyLib snippet]`

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## 2. Downloadable PDFs (the gold)

| # | Resource | URL |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | **Behavioral Table of Elements** (flagship) | https://storage.googleapis.com/msgsndr/zIawBVdMyBFIZKkatHIQ/media/67dda5c7d8aa9e4e5ada329c.pdf |
| 2 | **BTE Field Guide** (cell explanations) | https://storage.googleapis.com/msgsndr/zIawBVdMyBFIZKkatHIQ/media/6786b7e6fee98207106a87a7.pdf |
| 3 | **Behavior Compass** | https://storage.googleapis.com/msgsndr/zIawBVdMyBFIZKkatHIQ/media/67b6231c8497551488debc2f.pdf |
| 4 | **Needs Map** | https://storage.googleapis.com/msgsndr/zIawBVdMyBFIZKkatHIQ/media/67b75f14162c1573eb345c3d.pdf |
| 5 | **Decision Map** | https://storage.googleapis.com/msgsndr/zIawBVdMyBFIZKkatHIQ/media/67b75ed5b41493c24a294f41.pdf |
| 6 | **Visual Needs Identification** | https://storage.googleapis.com/msgsndr/zIawBVdMyBFIZKkatHIQ/media/67b78366e76502e68dc83f8e.pdf |
| 7 | **Profile Worksheet** (fillable) | https://storage.googleapis.com/msgsndr/zIawBVdMyBFIZKkatHIQ/media/67b783d39367f8f2f2f22515.pdf |
| 8 | **2018 BTE PDF** (Harbinger mirror — older but functionally similar) | https://www.jordanharbinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The-Behavioral-Table-of-Elements-2018.pdf |
| 9 | **2022 BTE PDF** (Kajabi mirror) | https://s3.amazonaws.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/file-uploads/sites/2147483907/themes/2157966766/downloads/8f562b3-1ce-355-83a6-4eb1cc85b8e_THE_2022_BEHAVIOR_TABLE_OF_ELEMENTS_BTE_.pdf |
| 10 | **Hughes Authority Inventory (HAI 2021)** | https://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2023/02/HUGHES-AUTHORITY-INVENTORY-HAI-2021.pdf |
| 11 | **Worksheet — Why Authority > Skill** (Harbinger) | https://www.jordanharbinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Worksheet-for-Chase-Hughes-Why-Authority-Is-More-Influential-than-Skill-Episode-102.pdf |

**Index pages:** [nci.university/6-mx-resources](https://nci.university/6-mx-resources) · [nci.university/ellipsis-manual-resource](https://nci.university/ellipsis-manual-resource)

**Recommendation:** download all 11 to `docs/chase-hughes-pdfs/` for offline agent reference.

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## 3. Section-by-section public synthesis

### S-01 — Pillars of Human Influence

**FATE** = Focus → Authority → Tribe → Emotion. Four hardwired mammalian "entry points": capture attention via novelty, project calm authority, signal in-group belonging, attach emotion to consolidate the shift. Identity-level change is the goal — once "I am that kind of person" is accepted, consistency does the rest. `[sourced: Easy Prey podcast; Diary of a CEO transcript; PBD #531]`

**Six-Axis Model of Influence** (six dimensions on which receptivity varies in real time): **Suggestibility, Focus, Openness, Connection, Compliance, Expectancy**. A persuasion attempt fails when any axis is low — read which one and lift it before pushing the message. `[sourced: Eightify summary; Robin Dreeke LinkedIn breakdown]`

**ACSS hierarchy**: Authority → Comfort → Social skills → Skills. 90% of people think they need skills; they need authority or comfort. A perfect script delivered by someone with social anxiety still fails. `[sourced: Diary of a CEO transcript]`

**PCP** = Perception → Context → Permission. The pre-suasion cascade: shift Perception, the felt Context flips, Permission to act follows. Cult recruiters opening with "this is just an anonymous survey" — perception and permission are set before any pitch. `[sourced: Diary of a CEO; Easy Prey]`

**Public depth here is high.** The book likely adds operational drills, scripted language patterns, and the full Hierarchy of Influence Factors diagram.

### S-02 — Neurology of Influence

Thinly covered in free material. Hughes references locus coeruleus arousal, dopamine deception (novelty hijacking attention), theta-state suggestibility (~7 Hz "hyperplasticity"), and emotional consolidation via the amygdala. He cites these as mechanism, not as deep neuroscience. `[sourced: Shawn Ryan #253 transcript; JRE #2278]` This is the section where the book most likely outpaces the free corpus.

### S-03 — Authority and Obedience

The single richest public area — covered extensively on Diary of a CEO, Jordan Harbinger #102, Art of Manliness #875, and the HAI worksheet PDF.

**The 5 Authority Pillars (CDLGE)** = Confidence, Discipline, Leadership, Gratitude, Enjoyment. *Causes* of personal authority. Find your lowest pillar — highest-leverage fix.

**The 5 Outward Signs (MACCI)** = Movement (slowness), Appearance, Confidence, Connection, Intent. *Symptoms* of authority. LinkedIn teaches symptoms; authority comes from a worldview that produces the posture as a byproduct. `[sourced: Singju Post DOAC transcript]`

**Two vocal prescriptions Hughes consistently teaches**:
- Slow speech — "move at the speed you'd move underwater."
- Downward inflection at sentence-end. Falling pitch = finality and certainty. `[sourced: Jordan Harbinger #102]`

**HAI (Hughes Authority Inventory)** = self-assessment instrument; the 2021 PDF is openly mirrored on Art of Manliness. Use this as the entry to Composure / Charisma / Limiting Beliefs sub-headings.

### S-04 — Behavioral Table of Elements (BTE)

**Structure**: rows = anatomical region (head → torso → legs/feet → external/paralinguistic). Columns = stress/deception likelihood (left = benign green; right = high-stress red/orange). Each cell = a specific cue with a numeric weight. `[sourced: Subliminal Hacking 2019; Jordan Harbinger #768]`

**Application protocol Hughes teaches publicly**:
1. Baseline first (resting cadence, posture, breathing, blink rate). Do not interpret during baselining.
2. Cluster, never single-cue. "There is no deception behavior and no deception micro-expression — only stress signals and deviation from baseline."
3. Score deviations within a tight time window after a stimulus question.
4. Threshold ~12+ cluster value = "dig deeper" (not "they lied").
5. Multi-rater design — numeric scoring exists so several observers reach the same call from different angles.

**Example elements he discusses publicly**: pupil dilation, blink-rate shifts, breathing-location change (chest vs. diaphragm), lip compression, facial touching, single vs. bilateral shoulder shrugs, hands-in-pockets, foot withdrawal, lint-picking. `[sourced: Art of Charm #632; Harbinger #768]`

**Verbal cluster patterns** (overlap with S-09):
- *Detail mountain / detail valley* — guilty subjects flood irrelevant context, starve the critical moment of detail
- *Severity softening* — "hurt" instead of "killed"
- *Pronoun absence* / drift away from "I/me" around the load-bearing claim
- *Duping delight* — leakage of pleasure when a liar believes they got away with it (one input, never a verdict) `[sourced: Easy Prey podcast; Newsweek interview]`

The framework's **public depth is essentially complete** through the official PDFs + Harbinger + Art of Charm episodes. The book adds the full per-cell scoring rubric and extended training drills.

### S-05 — Profiling Human Behavior (Six-Minute X-Ray territory)

**Six Social Needs (Needs Map)** — every person dominantly driven by two of: **Significance/Importance, Approval, Acceptance, Intelligence, Pity, Power**. Each pairs with a mirror fear (dismissal, rejection, criticism, looking dumb, being ignored, disrespect). `[sourced: Shortform; BeFreed]`

**Six Decision Drivers (Decision Map)** — **Deviance, Novelty, Social, Conformity, Investment, Necessity**. Adjacent drivers co-occur. Match the driver when framing the same option ("stands out" vs. "everyone's doing it"). `[sourced: Shortform; bookbytes.ai]`

**Sensory preferences (V/A/K/AD)** — NLP-derived; Hughes claims people leak dominant channel within ~3 min 15 sec. Match their predicates to drop resistance. *Empirical caveat*: V/A/K has weak peer-reviewed support outside NLP communities. `[sourced: Shortform; Passmore & Rowson 2019]`

**Linguistic harvesting** — log adjectives + pronouns + sensory words; reuse them in later persuasion. Pronoun analysis: drift from "I/me" to "we/us" can signal tribe acceptance; absence of self-pronouns around a claim flags distancing. `[sourced: Hughes Medium "Ultimate Rapport Guide"]`

**Quadrant Technique / Behavior Compass** — directional sorting model; the Compass PDF is the openly-hosted reference.

**Hierarchy / status indicators** — name-dropping, absolutes ("always/never"), possessives ("my team"). Subordinate language: hedges, permission-seeking, reduced eye-assertion. `[sourced: bookbytes.ai; Harbinger]`

**Where book outpaces public**: the full per-need behavioral checklists, the cluster diagram showing which decision drivers co-occur, and the integration of profile → influence routing.

### S-06 — Mastering the Social Frame *(inferred)*

Public material is thin and mostly indirect — Hughes' rapport material on Medium covers it tangentially: deliberate social errors (mispronouncing a word, untucked shirt) to lower defences, mirroring with 3-4 second delay, breathing synchronisation. The "~130 techniques" figure is from NCI marketing — likely the section that most rewards owning the book.

### S-07 — Enhanced Influence

**Compliance-gaining sequence**: micro-compliance + novelty. Extract small low-stakes agreements, inject novelty to keep the brain in an open state, escalate. Direct echo of Cialdini's foot-in-the-door / pre-suasion. `[sourced: MEXC summary]`

**Suggestibility multiplier**: Authority × Suggestibility = Compliance. Trance (~theta, 7 Hz) is where suggestibility peaks. **Fractionation** (TikTok's up-down-up-down emotional pull) is Hughes' stated mechanism for spiking suggestibility before delivering content. `[sourced: JRE #2278; Shawn Ryan #253]`

**Reading "is influence working?"** — falling blink rate + falling breath rate, open palms, lip compression decreasing, pronoun drift toward "we", neck exposure. `[sourced: Diary of a CEO; Easy Prey]`

**Suggestibility tells (rapid in-conversation)**:
- *Lower-eyelid smoothness* — Hughes' most-cited tell. Smooth = more open/suggestible. Tense = chronic skepticism. `[sourced: OpenTools summary of "Government Brainwashing Expert"]`
- Suggestibility ≠ gullibility — high-suggestibility subjects are "more present, in front of their eyes," typically happier, more therapeutically responsive.

**Hypnosis content is largely repackaged Erickson → Bandler/Grinder NLP** — sensory matching, pacing breathing, embedded suggestion via harvested language. `[sourced: behavior-podcast.com critique; jacquinhypnosisacademy.com Milton Model]`

### S-08 — Tactical Formulas of Influence

**KAPTOR Protocol** is name-only public; content sits behind the book and NCI courses. `[no basis]` for anything more than the acronym in free material.

**FEAR (self-installation) loop**: Focus → Emotion → Agitation → Repetition. Used by ad systems and cults; Hughes flips it for habit installation. `[sourced: Shawn Ryan #253 PodcastNotes summary]`

### S-09 — Interrogation / Hughes Behavioral Interview (HBI)

**Interrogation vs. Elicitation** distinction is the master frame. Interrogation = subject knows they're a suspect. Elicitation = subject never realises they're being interviewed. Questions trigger defences; **statements** bypass them and create a "need to correct the record."

**Five named elicitation moves** (statements not questions):
- *Provocative/assumptive*: "I bet this is a fun job to have."
- *Naive mention*: feed a deliberately wrong fact (Hughes' classic: "Uber drivers report the highest job satisfaction") — they correct.
- *Bracketing*: offer a wrong numeric/date range — they volunteer the real number.
- *Disbelief*: "Wow, no challenges on the whole trip?" — denial expands into detail.
- *Recap opener*: "So you've been doing this for three years…" — they elaborate. `[sourced: Diary of a CEO transcript; JRE #2278]`

**Four-step interrogation model**: **Socialize → Minimize → Rationalize → Project**. Overlaps with Reid Technique's *minimization* but rejects Reid's accusatory monologue and front-loads rapport. Reid is associated with elevated false-confession rates (~29% of DNA exonerations involve false confessions per Kassin). Hughes' approach is identity-aligning ("this fits who you are") rather than guilt-pressing. `[sourced: Shawn Ryan #253; Wikipedia Reid Technique; Kassin 2017]`

**Best free deep-dive**: Shawn Ryan #253 transcript at singjupost.com is the richest single source for HBI material.

### S-10 — Operator Skills & Drills

Drills are essentially book-only. Free material covers the *concepts* (baseline, cluster, route through FATE) but not the structured drilling protocols.

### S-11 — Resources and Graphics

The free PDFs (§2) cover much of what S-11 likely shows. Embedded Commands and the Trial Science (Ten Laws / Hero's Journey in Courtroom) sub-sections are public-thin.

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## 4. Curated free media diet

If you want to absorb the publicly-explained 70-80% of BOM through media, this is the prioritised order:

**Read first (highest signal-to-time ratio)**:
1. The 11 free PDFs in §2 — the BTE Field Guide, Needs Map, Decision Map, Behavior Compass, HAI
2. Hughes' 8 Medium articles (2015): https://medium.com/@chasehughes1 — especially *The Ultimate Rapport Guide*, *Pocket Lie-Detection Guide*, *Behavior Profiler Exposes Polygraph Secrets*
3. Singju Post transcript: Diary of a CEO Hughes interview
4. Singju Post transcript: Shawn Ryan #253
5. Keynote Books summary: https://keynotebooks.com/the-behavior-ops-manual-chase-hughes-summary-action-guide/

**Watch/listen (long-form, in this order)**:
1. **Diary of a CEO — "The Leading Body Language & Behaviour Expert"** (Dec 2024, ~2h+) — best mainstream intro
2. **PBD #531 — "MK Ultra Was REAL!"** (Jan 2025) — best FATE walkthrough
3. **Shawn Ryan #253** (Nov 2025, ~2h 55m) — most substantive single appearance
4. **Jordan Harbinger #768** (Feb 2023, ~1h 15m) — definitive BTE episode
5. **Jordan Harbinger #102** (2018) — Authority > Skill thesis
6. **JRE #2278** (Feb 2025, ~3h) — cult mechanics, suggestibility, identity
7. **Easy Prey Podcast** — tight summary of his profiling craft
8. **Art of Manliness #875** — authority deep-dive
9. **Order of Man #132** — older but clean intro
10. **Danny Jones #279** — hypnosis-heavy

**Confirmed not to exist (don't waste time looking)**: Lex Fridman, Andrew Huberman, Modern Wisdom, Jocko, Mark Bell's Power Project — no Chase Hughes episode on any of these.

**Behavior Panel** (his collab YouTube channel with Bowden / Hartley / Rouse) is *applied analysis*, not curriculum. Useful for watching BTE-style language in action, not for learning frameworks. The ~190M-view channel rarely teaches end-to-end; for that, go to his solo content.

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## 5. Academic foundations — what's underneath

Stratified by evidence quality so you know what's load-bearing:

| Foundation | Hughes uses it as… | Empirical status |
|---|---|---|
| **Cialdini — Influence (1984)** | Backbone of the compliance-gaining sequence; CIA migrated MICE → RASCLS in 2013 specifically to use Cialdini | **Solid** — peer-reviewed for 35+ years (Wissler/Cialdini/Schweitzer SSRN) |
| **Joe Navarro — FBI body language** | The pacifier/manipulator/illustrator taxonomy and baseline-first discipline | **Solid for observation method**; Navarro himself disclaims using body language for deception detection |
| **Ekman — microexpressions / FACS** | The deception-cue framing of BTE | **Contested → failing**. Jordan et al. 2019 (METT Bayesian test): no improvement over no training. PMC 6158306: "microexpressions are not the best way to catch a liar" |
| **Reid Technique** | Source of the minimization step in the 4-step model | **Implicated** in ~29% of DNA-exoneration false confessions (Kassin) |
| **Bandler & Grinder NLP** | Sensory predicates, V/A/K, mirroring, eye-accessing cues | **Pseudoscience** — Witkowski 2011 review (35 years), Sturt et al. 2012 systematic review: zero empirical support |
| **Milton Erickson clinical hypnosis** | Pacing-and-leading, embedded commands (via NLP's Milton Model) | **Evidence-based for specific clinical conditions**; the conversational-influence extrapolation is Hughes' addition |
| **Vrij — cognitive lie detection** | Cluster-and-baseline discipline, statement analysis | **Solid** — Vrij 2017/2019 meta-analyses |
| **Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale** | The suggestibility axis | **Solid** — r ≈ 0.40-0.55 with compliance under leading questioning |
| **CIA RASCLS framework (Burkett 2013)** | Implicit — same Cialdini-shaped migration the IC made | Official CIA *Studies in Intelligence* publication |

**The honest accuracy ceiling for behaviour-based deception detection in peer-reviewed literature**: ~54-60% (Bond & DePaulo 2006, ~25,000 judges, 206 studies). Hughes' "no single tell, only baseline + clusters" framing is consistent with this — his marketing claims are not.

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## 6. The credibility caveat in detail

Two independent investigators have published documented challenges:

**Zachary Elwood — *People Who Read People*** podcast/Substack
- https://behavior-podcast.com/who-is-chase-hughes-lies-of-fake-expert-in-behavior-influence/
- Uses Wayback Machine, military records, LinkedIn to trace the rebrand: PUA → supplement seller → "behavior expert"
- Argues "CIA interrogation expert" framing is unsupported by available records

**Kent Clizbe** — former CIA officer
- https://kentclizbe.substack.com/p/chase-hughes-fake-and-fraud
- Adds professional-credentialing context from inside the IC

**Factually.co** ran a Navy-records check; no DD-214 has been produced corroborating senior intelligence-billet claims.

**What this means for Kim**: the techniques are mostly real (sourced from Cialdini, Navarro, Vrij, Gudjonsson, NLP — verifiable elsewhere). The narrative around them is contested. Use the frameworks; discount the war-stories. The strongest move is to anchor each Hughes framework to its peer-reviewed parent rather than to Hughes himself — that's what the table in §5 is for.

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## 7. Where the book genuinely outpaces the free corpus

Worth keeping the BOM for:
- **S-02 Neurology** — full mechanistic depth
- **S-06 Mastering the Social Frame** — the ~130 social-frame techniques
- **S-07 Enhanced Influence** — Grief Process Method, Confusion Weapon, full hypnosis scripts
- **S-08 KAPTOR Protocol** — public-thin
- **S-10 Operator Skills & Drills** — entirely book-only
- Per-cell BTE scoring rubric and integrated drills
- Per-need behavioral checklists for the Needs Map

Roughly: **public material covers ~70% of S-01, S-03, S-04, S-05, S-09 well; ~30-40% of S-06, S-07, S-08, S-11; ~10-20% of S-02, S-10**. The book adds operational specificity and integration that free media doesn't provide.

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## 8. Suggested integration into Kim's CHL agents

If you want to operationalise this for your agent ecosystem, two minimal moves:

1. **Create `.claude/agents/knowledge/behavioral-influence.json`** — curated source list per the principles in `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md`. Include: Cialdini *Influence*, Navarro *What Every BODY Is Saying*, Vrij's cognitive interviewing literature, Gudjonsson's suggestibility work, Hughes' free PDFs and Medium articles, the top 5 podcast appearances. This is your quality filter — agents prefer it before broader web search.

2. **Build a `behavioral-influence` agent** — thin per the universal contract; reads (a) goals from `.claude/context/`, (b) the curated knowledge JSON, (c) this compendium, (d) your existing `chase-hughes-behavioral-influence-notes.md`. Domain-specific operating note: every framework cite must include its **academic parent** from §5 — never cite Hughes alone for empirical claims.

I can scaffold both files when you give the word.

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## 9. Sources (consolidated)

**Hughes-direct**
- chasehughes.com / nci.university (and free PDF index pages)
- youtube.com/@chasehughesofficial
- medium.com/@chasehughes1
- The Behavior Panel: youtube.com/c/TheBehaviorPanel

**Best transcript hosts**
- singjupost.com (DOAC, SRS #253 transcripts)
- podcasts.happyscribe.com (JRE #2278, DOAC)
- podcastnotes.org (SRS #253 section summary)

**Critical / academic**
- behavior-podcast.com (Elwood, "People Who Read People")
- kentclizbe.substack.com
- Burkett 2013, *Studies in Intelligence* 57(1) — CIA MICE→RASCLS migration
- DePaulo et al. 2003; Bond & DePaulo 2006; Vrij 2017/2019
- Jordan et al. 2019 (METT Bayesian test)
- PMC 6158306 — "Microexpressions Are Not the Best Way to Catch a Liar"
- Witkowski 2011; Sturt et al. 2012 (NLP critical reviews)
- Kassin 2017 — false confessions and Reid Technique

**Best community summaries**
- keynotebooks.com — strongest BOM framework breakdown
- shortform.com — SMX overview
- befreed.ai — SMX summary
- Subliminal Hacking 2019 BTE write-up
- Goodreads reviewer Mark Blane — domain-transfer to legal practice

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*This compendium is a synthesis of publicly-available material organised against the BOM section structure. It does not reproduce book content. For the operational depth (drills, scripts, full rubrics, S-02/S-06/S-08/S-10 substance), the book remains required.*