The first manual, kubark counterintelligence interrogation, dated july 1963, is the. In 1997, two additional cia manuals were declassified in response to a freedom of information act foia request filed by the baltimore sun. While the field manual was published in 1963, the pdf document states that declassification was 2252014. Kubark counterintelligence interrogation manual, agency uknown. Written during the cold war this book details the types of people the cia or kubark, as they call themselves, would interrogate and the methods they used to. Cia, kubark counterintelligence interrogation manual kubark a cia codename for itselfdescribes the qualifications of a successful. The cold war kubark files updated 2014 release, fullsize edition, newly indexed with glossary carlile intelligence library by central intelligence agency and carlile media jun 4, 2018. Army and cia interrogation manuals are seven controversial military training manuals which were declassified by the pentagon in 1996. The second manual, kubark counterintelligence interrogation, dated. Pdf kubark counterintelligence interrogation national security. Ito purpose io to provide guidelines for kubark interrogation, and particularly the cou.
The aim of the alice in wonderland or confusion technique is to confound the expectations and conditioned reactions of the interrogatee. The cryptonym kubark appears in the title of a 1963 cia document kubark counterintelligence interrogation which describes interrogation techniques, including. At best it can help readers to avoid the characteristic mistakes of poor interrogators. This is a request under the freedom of information act. The manuals in question have been referred to by various media sources as the torture manuals.
See some of the most unbelievable pages from the cold warera cia torture manual known as the kubark handbook. Cia approach to interrogation reflected an internal program. Every manual i have read on questioning states that information obtained from a suspect under torture is not reliable, that the subject will say whatever he thinks. Human resource exploitation manual cia the black vault. Jeffrey kaye filed this request with the central intelligence agency of the united. The top secret kubark counterintelligence interrogatiom manual codified extensively tested psychological torture methods which are the foundation for the cia s sinister counterinsurrectional tactics. According to the books publisher, kubark is a cryptonym used by the cia when internally referring to the agency. This manual cannot teach anyone how to be, or become, a good interrogator. Central intelligence agency cryptonym for the cia itself. If the kubark manual is the culmination of years of experimentation in the field of torture, then the 1983 manual is the result of 20 years of tweaking the kubark s contents. Human resources manual, assisted directly in early interrogations. Human resource exploitation training manual the american. The first manual, kubark counterintelligence interrogation, dated july 1963, is the source of much of the material in the second manual.
This manual cannot teach anyone how to be, or become, a good its purpose is to provide guidelines for kubark interrogation, and. The manual deals mostly with the nature of counterintelligence, but for this post we will look at the use of hypnosis in. Its purpose is to provide guidelines for kubark interrogation, and particularly the counterintelligence interrogation of resistant sources. In, the cia distributed a novellalength manual on torture. Beseler 67c manual pdf a catalog of user guides and owners manuals for beseler enlargers and darkroom products available beseler 67c condenser enlarger manual blue model. July 1963, is the source of much of the material in human resource. It was, as alfred mccoy puts it, the codification of everything the cia had learned from its experiments throughout the 50s. Kubark counterintelligence pdf this manual, the infamous kubark counterintelligence interrogation, dated july, is the source of much of the material in the second manual. Impact of aids education and training centers on the us hiv medical workforce. Pdf a careful reading of the kubark manual is essential for anyone involved in anticipating modernday interrogation guides such as cia s kubark. Kubark counterintelligence interrogation manual as want to read. The 1983 cia training manual allocates considerable space to the subject of coercive questioning and psychological and physical techniques and recommends. At best it can help readers to avoid the charactt risiic miatake s of poor interrogator s4 ito purpose io to provide guidelines for kubark.
The kubark manual for cia interrogation and torture war. This paper examines the kubark counterintelligence interrogation manual. This cia interrogation manual, human resource exploitation training manual 1983 is an updated version of kubark manual 1963 incorporating sections of kubark. Army and cia interrogation manuals are seven controversial military training manuals. The pentagon press release accompanying the excerpts states that a investigation into the manuals concluded that cia kugarktorture dozen short passages in six of the manuals, which total pages, contained material that either was not or could be interpreted not to be consistent with u. Air 3d 4th 5th 6th 7th 12th 14th 17th 19th 21st 36th 40th 42d 45th 47th 57th th th st d th th d d th. Card users are held responsible to the government for any transaction not made for aect government use. The kubark manual was written by the cia in the s as a means of standardizing interrogation techniques. There is indeed a torture manual and the cia literally wrote it. Kubark 1963 counterintelligence interrogation manual. Kubark counterintelligence interrogation manual the central intelligence agency on.
This manual, the infamous kubark counterintelligence interrogation, dated july, is the source of much of the material in the second manual. The waterboarding and other tortures that are a shocking revelation to americans today, were sop standard operating procedure in puerto rico for decades. In 1963, the agency created the kubark counterintelligence interrogation manual. Cia kubark counterintelligence interrogation manual, human resource exploitation training manual, art and. Kubark counterintelligence interrogation manual pdf this page report, classified secret, was drafted in july as a comprehensive guide for training interrogators in the art of obtaining.
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