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DOD Memo: Telephonic Interview of Official re: Conditions at Abu Ghraib Detention Facility

May 28, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 892
Memo discusses information obtained from a telephonic interview of redacted. [redacted] discussed the general environment of AG (e.g. protocol for receiving new detainees). [redacted] stated that "it was not uncommon to see people without clothing [in the 1A area], the whole nudity thing was an interrogation procedure used by MI." Stated further that there was no "written policy about mandatory clothing or stripping the detainees. "However, if an interrogator wanted to temporarily strip a detainee as a psychological ploy to assist in interrogating him, it would have required a written request submitted with the interrogation plan." The interviewee recalled one incident where a detainee was nude in his cell and requested that the MPs get the detainee a jumpsuit or his civilian clothing, after stating that such was MP standard operating procedure.
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  • Unknown date, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Memo discusses information obtained from a telephonic interview of redacted. [redacted] discussed the general environment of AG (e.g. protocol for receiving new detainees). [redacted] stated that "it was not uncommon to see people without clothing [in the 1A area], the whole nudity thing was an interrogation procedure used by MI." Stated further that there was no "written policy about mandatory clothing or stripping the detainees. "However, if an interrogator wanted to temporarily strip a detainee as a psychological ploy to assist in interrogating him, it would have required a written request submitted with the interrogation plan." The interviewee recalled one incident where a detainee was nude in his cell and requested that the MPs get the detainee a jumpsuit or his civilian clothing, after stating that such was MP standard operating procedure.