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Document a Day: Old Torture Made New

Larry Siems,
The Torture Report
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June 14, 2010

The torture techniques CIA and Defense Department interrogators used have a specific pedigree: they were developed and promoted by , where U.S. soldiers are subjected to torture techniques perfected by such countries as China, North Korea, and the Soviet Union.

In this , two SERE trainers report on their trip to instruct Guant谩namo interrogators on 鈥渢he theory and application of the physical pressures utilized during our training evolutions.鈥 Their instruction began, they report, with 鈥渁n in-depth class on Biderman's Principles,鈥 and the memo reproduces this chart of 鈥淐oercive Management Techniques鈥 entitled 鈥淏iderman's Chart of Coercion.鈥

Biderman is Albert D. Biderman, whose . Biderman showed how Chinese and Korean interrogators used techniques including sleep deprivation, darkness or bright light, insults, threats, and exposure far more than physical force to break prisoners.

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