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July 2, 2008
China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo
By SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — 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.
