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China Inspired Interrogations
at Guantánamo
SCOTT SHANE
NY
Times
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December
2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the
effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible
use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged
constraint,” and “exposure.”
What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that
their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study
of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to
obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the
way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long
described as torture became the basis for interrogations both
by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and
by the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Some methods were used against a small number of prisoners at
Guantánamo before 2005, when Congress banned the use of
coercion by the military. The C.I.A. is still authorized by President
Bush to use a number of secret “alternative” interrogation
methods.
Several Guantánamo documents, including the chart outlining
coercive methods, were made public at a Senate Armed Services
Committee hearing June 17 that examined how such tactics came
to be employed.
But committee investigators were not aware of the chart’s
source in the half-century-old journal article, a connection pointed
out to The New York Times by an independent expert on interrogation
who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The 1957 article from which the chart was copied was entitled
“Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions From Air
Force Prisoners of War” and written by Alfred D. Biderman,
a sociologist then working for the Air Force, who died in 2003.
Mr. Biderman had interviewed American prisoners returning from
North Korea, some of whom had been filmed by their Chinese interrogators
confessing to germ warfare and other atrocities.
Full
article here.
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