#Interrogation

10 entries tagged Interrogation.

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Albert Biderman Air Force social scientist at the Bureau of Social Science Research whose 1957 analysis of Communist coercion methods produced the Chart of Coercion, a document later reverse-engineered into SERE training and applied directly at Guantanamo Bay by military interrogators in 2002.
Commander Narut US Navy clinical psychologist stationed in Naples who disclosed at a 1975 NATO conference in Oslo that the Navy had trained 'combat psychopaths' as assassins through a three-phase audio-visual desensitization program, triggering a brief international scandal before retracting the most specific of his claims under institutional pressure.

Operation DERBY HAT Joint CIA-Army operation in which LSD was administered to unwitting subjects during overseas interrogations in the early 1960s, disclosed by Sidney Gottlieb in his October 1975 Church Committee testimony.
Operation THIRD CHANCE Joint CIA-Army operation in which LSD was administered to unwitting subjects during interrogations in Europe in 1961, including a Black Army soldier, James Thornwell, who was falsely accused of theft and subjected to prolonged drug-induced psychological terror.
Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke Project Bluebird (1950-1951) and its successor Project Artichoke (1951-1956) were the CIA's classified behavioral research programs that pioneered LSD interrogation experiments on prisoners and foreign nationals, forming the direct institutional predecessor to Project MKULTRA.
SERE A US military training program developed after the Korean War to prepare service members to resist coercive interrogation through simulated captivity, which became the template for 'enhanced interrogation' techniques after its methods were reverse-engineered for offensive use following September 11, 2001.

A Treatment The CIA's classified interrogation technique combining drugs, hypnosis, and psychological regression to extract information and induce amnesia, developed under the ARTICHOKE program.
KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation is the CIA's classified July 1963 interrogation manual that codified MKULTRA-derived techniques including regression induction, sensory deprivation, and psychogenic manipulation, declassified in 1997 and cited as the basis for interrogation techniques used in CIA operations from Vietnam through the post-9/11 enhanced interrogation program.
Sensory Deprivation A technique placing subjects in environments stripped of sensory input, used by D. Ewen Cameron as part of depatterning, studied by the CIA as an interrogation tool, and researched by Donald Hebb, Maitland Baldwin, and John Lilly.

Camp King U.S. Army interrogation facility at Oberursel, West Germany, operated as a Cold War black site where CIA ARTICHOKE teams ran drug and hypnosis experiments on Soviet intelligence personnel, and through which Operation Paperclip scientists including Walter Schreiber and Kurt Blome served as medical directors.