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In 1983, Caballero attended a CIA "human resources exploitation or interrogation course," according to declassified testimony by Richard Stolz, who was the deputy director for operations at the time, before the June 1988 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The manual advises an interrogator to "manipulate the subject's environment, to ...
On March 8, 2008 president George W. Bush vetoed a bill, supported by Democrats and opposed by John McCain, which would have restricted the CIA to the techniques in the manual. [ 7 ] Disputes during the manual's preparation included whether a section on interrogation techniques would remain classified, [ 4 ] and whether the Geneva conventions ...
Various revisions of the extended techniques were issued. [citation needed] Rumsfeld intended the extended techniques to be used only on the captives the United States classified as "illegal combatants". However, extended interrogation techniques were adopted in Iraq, even though captives there were entitled to protection under the Geneva ...
At the time, President Barack Obama, who ended the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, said, “One of the strengths that makes America exceptional is our willingness to openly confront our ...
Project Artichoke was a mind control program that gathered information together with the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Force and FBI.In addition, the scope of the project was outlined in a memo dated January 1952 that asked, "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self ...
SERE training camp at Fort Bragg.Captain Michael Kearns, Psychologist Bruce Jessen (right) John Bruce Jessen (born July 28, 1949) [1] is an American psychologist who, with James Elmer Mitchell, created the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used in the interrogation and torture of CIA detainees [2] and outlined in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former CIA contractors who designed the harsh interrogation program used after the Sept. 11 attacks are being summoned to testify before the military tribunal at the U.S ...