Central Intelligence Agency Quotes
If the person does not feel guilt he is not in his own mind guilty and will not confess …. Confession in such a case can come only with duress.
It should be noted that at the beginning of the manual the reader is told that force is illegal. Then later, the manual tells the interrogator that headquarters approval is required for torture of use of chemicals. And still later there are instructions such as this quotation {597792}.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), KUBARK, U. S. Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual, July 1963
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Earlier in the manual, the illegality of such techniques is stated. Later there are suggestions for the use of duress. See {597790}
It should be noted that at the beginning of the manual the reader is told that force or involuntary interrogation is illegal. Then later, the manual tells the interrogator that headquarters approval is required for unwilling subjects. See {597792}. Throughout the beginning of the War on Terrorism the principle was quietly used in incarcerating Taliban and other terrorists.
This was a training manual for the conduct of Guerrilla wars in general and the Contra insurrection in Nicaragua.
This was a training manual for the conduct of Guerrilla wars in general and the Contra insurrection in Nicaragua.
The George W. Bush administration had issued a memorandum to key Federal Agencies stating that certain types of torture were legal—a finding that was quickly repudiated after Bush and VP Cheney—who was a leading force for allowing torture of terrorism suspects—were out of office. But Bush had told the American People and the World that the United States will not torture any prisoners. The dilemma was “solved” when someone came up with this euphemism.
The Khmer Rouge were as brutal as any, regime that ever was in power. Undoubtedly he was tortured so it is hard to tell if he was confessing to something real or saying what his torturers wanted to hear.
Kennedy was a relatively new president and the Bay of Pigs Operation was prepared and planned by the CIA under the Eisenhower Administration. The president assumed that the intelligence was correct and there would be an uprising of the Cuban people when as soon as the landing took place. That was all wrong and the Cubans actually supported Castro and the operation was a disaster. Kennedy never trusted the CIA after that.
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic collection.
