Yeah... it is part of SERE and interrogation training. But again, it only works on people that are open to manipulation. Depending on the state of mind of the POW, it can be effective given time to manipulate the person being questioned. Someone that is SERE trained will take MUCH longer to manipulate, but eventually everyone talks, you just can not help it, the only thing SERE training will do is withstand interrogation for as long as possible so hopefully the information you give the enemy is no longer useful.
Most of these Hollywood movies that show the hero withstanding all the manipulation and torture and never saying anything is complete BS. There was a movie called "Hart's War", about 20 years ago, it was mostly just stupid but there was one part that was accurate. When the character played by Colin Farrell was captured and put under interrogation, eventually he talked and spilt the beans, but when he was placed in the POW Camp the character played by Bruce Willis asked him if he talked, Farrell lied and said he didn't. At that point Willis never trusted him... the reason is that he knew Farrell lied because Willis knew EVERYONE eventually cracks... and if you are at the point where you are lying about that, then you never really withstood interrogation long enough.
If after interrogation you still have the capacity to lie, then you were never really broken. I broken person will be honest with everything, they will admit they have cracked and what they said, and how long it took for them to be broken. You can always tell when a POW is about to break, they will be honest about everything you ask them, including things that are personally embarrassing. This is why interrogators will ask seemingly stupid questions, they are gauging the level of honesty. They will ask questions that they already know the answer to, and if the prisoner is not being honest... well they but start trying to break them down more.
The difference between a skilled interrogator and one that isn't it that they know when someone is lying. Someone being tortured will tell you anything you want to hear once they are broken... but you also have to know when they are not being truthful with what they are telling you. If the purpose of the interrogation is to break a person, well this is actually easy and getting confessions isn't all that hard. The hard part is getting them to be honest.