These documents relate either directly to waterboarding or to issues surrounding waterboarding. These are some of the sources which I used to develop my opinions on waterboarding and which I used to write my article “Waterboarding: Sexy or Dangerous?“. In time I may add summaries or quote passages of particular interest.
Primary Sources:
Note: Any redactions were present when I accessed the documents and I have been unable to locate a version without redaction.
Bradbury Memo 5-10- 2005 RE Interrogation Techniques for a High Value al Qaeda Detainee (46 Pages)
Office of Inspector General Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities (259 Pages) [Heavily Redacted]
Office of Professional Responsibility Enhanced Interrogation Tactics Draft (203 Pages)
Office of Professional Responsibility Enhanced Interrogation Tactics Final Report (289 Pages)
CIA OMS Guidelines on Medical and Psychological Support to Detainee (29 Pages)
Pre-Academic Laboratory Operating Instructions [US Military Manual for the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School] (36 Pages)
Rizzo Memo RE Interrogation of al Qaeda Operation Zubaydah (18 Pages)
Manipulation of Human Behavior [Psychology of Interrogation – Published in 1961] (394 Pages)
Commentary:
Testimony to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (10 Pages, ~5 min to read)
Allen Keller, MD
NYU School of Medicine
Director, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
Dr. Keller speaks on the following interrogation tactics: sleep deprivation, stress positions, sensory deprivation, violent shaking, sensory overload, exposure to extreme cold or heat, sexual humiliation, water boarding, beatings, threats of harm to person, family, or friends, and exploration of fears and phobias. His experience is with the survivors of non-consensual and often long term victims of torture.
US Navy Pilot Account of SERE School (6 Pages, ~5 min to read)
Roles of CIA Physicians in Enhanced Interrogation and Torture of Detainees (2 Pages, ~2 min to read)
Scientific Publications:
Association of Panic Disorder With a History of Traumatic Suffocation (5 Pages, ~5 min to read)
Colin Bouwer, M.B., and Dan K. Stein, M.B.
American Journal of Psychiatry 1997; 154: 15566-1570
“Conclusions: There may be a specific association between panic disorder and a history of traumatic suffocation, and such a history in turn appears associated with predominantly respiratory symptoms and nocturnal panic attacks. Although additional studies are needed to confirm these data, a history of traumatic suffocation might be hypothesized to play a role in the etiology of panic disorder in some patients and may provide a useful window on understanding the psychobiology of this disorder.”
Fatal Water Intoxication (2 Pages, ~2 minutes to read)
D J Farrell, Department of Histopathology, Torbay Hospital, L Bower, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Torbay Hospital
Journal of Clinical Pathology 2003; 56:803-804
Pneumonia Associated with Near Drowning
Peter T. Ender* and Matthew J. Dolan, Department of Infectious Diseases, Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland AFB, Texas
Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases 1997;25:896–907
Panic Disorder Among Cambodian Refugees Attending a Psychiatric Clinic: Prevalence and Subtypes
Devon Hinton, M.D., Ph.D., Phalnarith Ba, Sonith Peou, and Khin Um, Department of Psychiatry at Mass. General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (D.H.), The Southeast Asian Clinic at North Suffolk Mental Health Center, Revere, Massachusetts (P.B., S.P.), Arbour Counseling, Lowell, Massachusetts (K.U.).
Journal of General Hospital Psychiatry 2000; 22(6): 437–444.