Before his interrogation, al-Baluchi was kept in a "standing sleep deprivation position" for about a day, and afterward he was returned to his cell naked and again placed in a standing sleep deprivation position, where he remained until his next interrogation the following day, the document shows. According to a new study, 54 countries helped the CIA outsource torture -- whether by providing foreign prisons for torturing detainees, prisoner transfers or logistics aid. Copyright 2020 NPR. WASHINGTON — For years, the U.S. military used waterboarding, a centuries-old torture technique, to train American troops to resist interrogation if captured. The authorized "enhanced interrogation" (the originator of this term is unknown, but it appears to be a calque of the German "verschärfte Vernehmung", meaning "intensified interrogation", used in 1937 by Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller ) was based on work done by James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen in the Air Force's Survival Evasion Resistance Escape(SERE) program. Wise had learned his trade as a torturer on behalf of the CIA-supported Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Accounts by detainees in different black sites have differed on how this method … In this pool photo of a Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, defendant Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, attends his pretrial hearing along with other Sept. 11 defendants at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in 2014. Mitchell wanted the waterboarding to stop and helped draft a message to CIA headquarters saying that “the intensity of the pressure applied to him thus far approaches the legal limit” and that Zubaydah’s mental state was deteriorating dangerously. He has been held at Guantánamo for more than 13 years and has never been charged with a crime. According to Mitchell’s testimony, he thought they’d gotten all the information they could from Zubaydah, who had agreed to cooperate. A senior CIA official did attend that waterboarding, during which — Mitchell testified — Zubaydah was having involuntary body spasms and was crying. He said some interrogators used his methods in abusive and unauthorized ways, prompting him to try to quit. The two psychologists who developed the CIA's torture program - Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen - formed a company called Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and … Al-Baluchi is accused of helping finance the Sept. 11 hijackers. Janet Hamlin, Pool/AP Our Agency . In a 2008 statement, former CIA Director Mike Hayden said that waterboarding in particular had not been used since 2003. The manuals in question have been referred to by various media sources as the "torture manuals". One of the architects of the CIA’s torture program for the accused Sept. 11 terrorists testified Wednesday in a Guantánamo Bay courtroom that he eventually came to believe that those torture techniques had gone too far and verged on breaking the law. Still, Mitchell spoke defiantly and unapologetically. Shocking the testicles and nipples are the most common due to their sensitivity. The CIA paid a company owned by Mitchell and his partner, Bruce Jessen, another psychologist, more than $80 million to develop the torture program ultimately used by the CIA … Let' s hope he makes it. That's according to a classified CIA report, portions of which defense attorneys were permitted by the government to read in open court. Whether it’s members of law enforcement, criminal justice students, veterans, or civilians interested in forensic science, CSI Academy of Florida has classes suited to you. The U.S. Army and CIA interrogation manuals are seven controversial military training manuals which were declassified by the Pentagon in 1996. One employee "explained his role as a student doing on-the job training." Not everyone who works for the Central Intelligence Agency is a secret agent stationed undercover in a foreign country. Architect Of CIA's Torture Program Says It Went Too Far, A Legacy Of Torture Is Preventing Trials At Guantánamo, Guantánamo Has Cost Billions; Whistleblower Alleges 'Gross' Waste. The CIA contracted with the two psychologists to develop alternative, harsh interrogation techniques. Mitchell continued working for the CIA, although the agency eventually cut ties with him and canceled his contract in 2009 as public outrage over the torture program mounted. ... who had little training. James Mitchell, who co-owned a company that was paid $80 million by the U.S. government to develop what the CIA called "enhanced interrogation techniques," said the prisoner, Ammar al-Baluchi, became an instructional aide for student interrogators. The CIA declined to comment on the testimony. The Senate’s torture report reveals that the C.I.A. The reverse-engineered torture techniques used in SERE training were haphazardly engineered back for use in CIA interrogations. “So a guy that trained CIA operatives how to endure torture was brought in,” he continues. Then, 92 days in, producer Brian Grazer brought in a man whose job it is to train CIA operatives on how to endure torture in order to help him deal with the pain of the makeup chair. The CIA paid a company owned by Mitchell and his partner, Bruce Jessen, another psychologist, more than $80 million to develop the torture program ultimately used by the CIA on suspected terrorists: waterboarding, stress positions and mock burials, among others. Mitchell and Jessen took a training program meant to teach the U.S. military to resist torture and reverse-engineered it. CIA Operations Officer Training. In this pool photo of a Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, defendant Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, attends his pretrial hearing along with other Sept. 11 defendants at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in 2014. Al-Baluchi, the 42-year-old nephew of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is facing criminal charges in the terror attacks. The pretrial hearings for the Sept. 11 trial, which is scheduled to begin next January, have been going on for years. Stress Positions. The training included an experience in a mock torture and detention setting, purportedly to inoculate U.S. personnel against foreign imprisonment and torture. According to an article by Shadow Proof about the CIA’s torture program originating in the same department as MKUltra, Seligman is believed to have met … He insisted that he was protecting his country and would do so again if given the chance, despite his own testimony indicating that he tried to draw a line in the sand and despite internal debate within the CIA over whether they were venturing into illegal territory. Jim Carrey tells us he was given training from an expert who advised the CIA on dealing with torture to get him prepared to ruin Christmas. The former military psychologists who designed the CIA’s torture program are now describing it in their own words for the first time, reopening one of … Every vote in Congress related to the investigation into the CIA torture program was bipartisan. That's according to testimony Thursday from a psychologist who helped design the torture program. The case is not scheduled to go to trial until January 2021, but pretrial hearings have been happening for years as attorneys debate various legal issues that must be resolved before a trial can begin. In 1997, two additional CIA manuals were declassified in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by The Baltimore Sun. But he said CIA officials told him he had "lost his spine" and would be at fault if another mass casualty occurred. ", Noting that al-Baluchi's interrogation included "one round of walling," Connell asked Mitchell: "How do you know one round of walling didn't last an hour-and-a-half?