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Between 1984 and 1985, after congressional committees began questioning training techniques being used by the CIA in Latin America, the 1983 manual went through substantial revision. In 1985 a page advising against using coercive techniques was inserted at the front of Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual. Handwritten changes were also ...
The manuals were distributed through the Army's Foreign Officer Course, Special Forces Mobile Training Teams (MTTs) and the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), a training center for Latin American armed forces, based in Fort Benning Georgia. The school's curriculum placed great weight on ideological conditioning and "steeped young Latin ...
Persons associated with the U.S. government were advised that they could rely on the manual, but could not rely upon "any interpretation of the law governing interrogation – including interpretations of Federal criminal laws, the Convention Against Torture, Common Article 3, Army Field Manual 2 22.3, and its predecessor document, Army Field ...
The second manual, "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual - 1983", was used in at least seven U.S. training courses conducted in Latin American countries, including Honduras, between 1982 and 1987. Both manuals deal exclusively with interrogation and have an entire chapter devoted to "coercive techniques."
Cover of the US Army's Handbook on Aggressor Insurgent War (1967). The manual was written in October 1983 [5] by a CIA contract employee who used the alias John Kirkpatrick, who "was a U.S. Army counterinsurgency specialist, with experience in the Vietnam War-era Phoenix Program, working under contract to the CIA's International Activities Division."
Yahoo News reported in January on the CIA’s secret U.S.-based training initiative for Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel. That program, which began in 2015 ...
.pdf version of Field Manual FM 2-22.3, "Human Intelligence Collector Operations." Archived 2017-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, circa September 6, 2006 (It replaces Field Manual 34-52.) Torture: Proposed New Army Field Manual Is a First Step but Must Apply to Everyone, Human Rights First, April 28, 2005
The CIA is overseeing a secret training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel. CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central ...