CIA Instructions for Electric Shock Torture

Horhey · Sep 30, 2012

The holy state did this with it's death squad forces to peasants demanding social reform and democracy, human rights advocates, trade unionists, liberation theology priests and nuns, students.

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 122

CIA, KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation

CIA, Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual

If a subject refuses to comply once a threat has been made, it must be carried out. If it is not carried out then subsequent threats will also prove ineffective. Threats should not be made unless they can be carried out and the employee realizes that such threats could be carried out.

If a coercive technique is to be used, or if two or more are to be employed jointly, they should be chosen for their effect upon the individual and carefully selected to match his personality.

The number of variations in techniques is limited only by the experience and imagination of the 'questioner.'

Interrogations conducted under compulsion or duress are especially likely to involve illegality and to entail damaging consequences for KUBARK. Therefore prior Headquarters approval at the KUDOVE level must be obtained for the interrogation of any source against his will and under any of the following circumstances:

1. If bodily harm is to be inflicted.

2. If medical, chemical, or electrical methods or materials are to be used to induce acquiescence.

3. [Redacted by CIA prior to declassification]

If a new safehouse is to be used as the interrogation site, it should be studied carefully to be sure that the total environment can be manipulated as desired. For example, the electric current should be known in advance, so that transformers or other modifying devices will be on hand if needed.

An intelligence source told the Baltimore Sun:

The CIA has acknowledged privately and informally in the past that this referred to the application of electric shocks to interrogation suspects.
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The more completely the place of confinement eliminates sensory stimuli, the more rapidly and deeply will the interrogatee be affected. Results produced only after weeks or months of imprisonment in an ordinary cell can be duplicated in hours or days in a cell which has no light (or weak artificial light which never varies), which is sound-proofed, in which odors are eliminated, etc. An environment still more subject to control, such as water-tank or iron lung, is even more effective.
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Horhey · Oct 5, 2012

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CIA, KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation, July 1963 - Part 1 (pp. 1-60)

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