After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

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This is a memo for the record concerning obtaining an interview from a soldier under multiple lines if investigation in connection to the events at Abu Ghraib Prison. The memo states "SUBJECT: Procedure 15 Interview USAR; On 09 June, 2004 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George R. Fay
Letter to MG Fay confirming the removal of an Army Reserve Captain from the witness list to give testimony on June 5, 2005. The Attorney for the witness requests that someone from MG Fay's office call them "to further discuss this matter."
Mar. 03, 2005
Letter
George R. Fay
George R. Fay
The memo, sent via fax, is for the production of records concerning tracking detainees at Abu Ghraib. The memo states "The Change Sheets arc filled out whenever a detainee is moved from one location in the facility to another, the moves are then ...
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Stated that he/she reviewed several photos of detainee abuse. Identified an individual(s) in the photo(s). [document redacted].
Interviewee was assigned to AG from May 2003 to November 2003 as a Platoon Leader, responsible for daytime guard operations. Interviewee stated, "I observed MI use some stress positions to include detainees holding their arms out for extended ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Stress positions, Nudity
Interviewee was an interrogator at AG. During his interview with MG Fay, he invoked his rights and the interview was halted because he disclosed that he interrogated a detainee in the nude, but the majority were clothed. He stated, "[t]he ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
George R. Fay, Robert Bruttomesso
Nudity
Interviewee "invoked HIS right under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and declined to make any further statements to Investigating Officers." [Memo redacted]
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Interviewee identified individual(s) in photo(s). [Names are redacted].
This statement of a CACI civilian contractor for the Dept. of Defense who states that he arrived at Abu Ghraib Prison on October 5, 2003. He states that "The Joint interrogation Debriefing Center Commander gave all new arrivals a down and dirty ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Physical assault, General, Nudity
Interviewee was assigned to AG in mid-October 2003, assigned to Tier 2 with the Iraqi criminals. Interviewee mentioned needing to handcuff detainees to their cells during a search where dogs were used to look for bombs and other ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez
Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interviewee arrived to AG around October 26, 2003 as an intelligence analyst.Interviewee recalled that " The closes[t] thing to detainee abuse I observed was making the detainees do PT." Interviewee stated, "[w]e requested the use of dogs for one ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced physical training
Sworn statement of a Specialist (E4) who stated "I never told [redacted] that the MPs had told the MI soldiers that we could do anything we wanted with the detainees. I do know that some of the MI soldiers were allowed to select what exercise to ...
Sworn statement of a Sergeant (E7) who arrived at Abu Ghraib prison around October 18-20, 2003 until February 10, 2004, The SGT stated that he had a series of duty assignments. He stated "hese duty assignments were to screening, document ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Sworn statement of Lieutenant Colonel with the 115th Military Police Battalion. The LTC recalled being aware of one incident where a soldier urinated on a detainee. He also recalled another incident where a detainee returned to the SP/CF area ...
Sworn statement of a Sergeant who arrived to Abu Ghraib prison at the end of July 2003 to December 16, 2003 with the advanced party as an interrogator. The Sgt recalled the use of unmuzzled dogs, along with loud music. He recalled interrogating ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
Use of phobias, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Memo discusses an attempt to obtain the 391" Military Police Battalion Records Check and logs that disclose the transfer of detainees between MP and MI control.
Sworn Statement of a Sergeant First Class (E7) concerning detainee handling and treatment at Abu Ghraib prison from mid-December 2003 until late February 2004. The SFC was the a Liaison Officer and Platoon Sergeant in the 325th at Abu Ghraib ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias, Nudity
Fay Report Annex: Sworn statement of a soldier with the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion. The soldier stated that "The only time I knew dogs were present was during the shakedown of the Iraqi Police. I never actually saw dogs used other than ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Threat, Assault/death, Use of phobias
Memo describes a telephonic interview of [redacted]. The interviewee was assigned to AG from approximately the first week of June 2003 to September 21, 2003 as a Liaison Officer. Interviewee stated that she knew detainees were stripped during ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Barbara G. Fast
Stress positions, Nudity
Sworn statement of a Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3) with A Company, 202d Military Intelligence Battalion who arrived Abu Ghraib prison on or about January 18, 2004. Interviewee described procedures dealing with hard copy packets of detainee files ...
Interviewee was assigned to AG from mid-October to early February 2004. Interviewee stated that he once heard a detainee was raped by other detainees. Interviewee also stated that he heard rumors of abuse and discussions of 'MPs smoking' ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Use of phobias, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Interviewee arrived to AG on October 20, 2003 to conduct interrogation operations.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Interviewee discussed the procedures dealing in Collection Management and Dissemination (CM &D) shop - transfer of detainee information.
Memo discusses information learned from an telephonic interview. The interviewee discussed email traffic findings, stated nothing in the email traffic discussed detainee abuse.
Interviewee arrived to AG in July 2004 Interviewee recalled an incident that involved a soldier screaming at detainees after a mortar attack. Interviewee noted that the use of dogs required prior approval.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Nudity, Other
Interviewee was assigned to AG from late May 2003 to early November 2003 as a Military Police Guard for the 72nd MP Company. Interviewee recalled an incident when another officer called him over to look at a naked detainee for the purpose of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Memo states that [redacted] refused to make a statement due to the information that has already been released about him to the press.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George R. Fay
Interviewee visited AG approximately five times. His/her sworn statement generally discusses the military protocol at AG.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas
Interviewee was assigned to AG from the end of July 2003 to December 21, 2003 as an interrogator with the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion. Interviewee was aware of detainees wearing women's underwear, and learned of an incident where a ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interviewee was assigned to AG on or about October 10, 2003 approximately until the end of October 2003 as a member of a five person Mobile Training Team. Interviewee recalled seeing a memo entitled "SECDEF Memo" which discusses approach ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation
Document is a transcript of a Staff Judge Advocate assigned to AG from November 26, 2003 to December 14, 2003. Described development of interrogation, the interrogation rules of engagement (IROE). Iraq interrogation policy "utilized Guantanamo ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Barbara G. Fast
Physical assault, Sexual, Use of phobias
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Interviewee discovered photos of dead bodies on a thumb drive; was able to identify [redacted] among the photos. Returned the thumb drive back to the unit.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Stress positions, Nudity, Other Humiliation
The memo briefly discusses JIDC logs.
Memo discusses a search of JIDC for documents related to interrogation and debriefing operations from August to January 2004.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George R. Fay

A statement by an individual stationed at Abu Ghraib as an individual augmentee on or about October 16, 2003. The individual stated that at Abu Ghraib, "there was no oversight of most of the interrogations being conducted as everyone was ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Isolation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
Interviewee was assigned to AG sometime in January to interrogate [redacted] general-detainee. Interviewee recounted the following event. The [redacted] general and the son told the interviewee that the [redacted] general's son, who was 17 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Threat, Family/others, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Other
Interviewee arrived to AG on October 20, 2003 to conduct interrogation operations. Interviewee briefly discussed what he/she was taught in training, stating "We were not allowed to use Pride and Ego down." Interviewee also provided that he/she ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias
Statement of a Chief warrant officer 2 who was tasked with managing interrogation operations at Abu Ghraib prison in July 2003. The CW2 criticized the organization of interrogation, especially at higher levels, and described it as "amateurish". ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
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 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Memo offers notes from a telephonic interview of [redacted] clarifying an earlier telephonic interview and sworn statement. In the interview, [redacted] states that he did not observe detainee abuse and/or nudity.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Nudity
Interviewee was assigned to AG from October 7-21, 2003 as a member of a five person Mobile Training Team. Interviewee stated that he/she did not witness detainee abuse and/or the use of dogs.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Use of phobias
Memo discusses notes taken on June 9, 2004 from a telephonic interview with [redacted] concerning his knowledge of abuse at AG. The interviewee stated he never observed or heard of detainee abuse and/or nudity. Interviewee did state he believed ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Sexual, Isolation, Nudity
This sworn statement by a Command Sergeant Major (CSM) for his Unit, the 325th Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion (BN) deployed to Iraq in March 2003. He states "I was only at Abu Ghraib (AG) on three occasions and all three visits were one-day ...
Interviewee was assigned to AG the first week of November 2003 as a Tiger Team Analyst. Interviewee recalled seeing a CACI civilian "grab a detainee off the Humvee and drop him to the ground. He then dragged the detainee into the interrogation ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interviewee arrived at AG on September 23, 2003 as an interrogator. Interviewee recalled one incident that occurred at the hard site. He/she saw an MP hit a detainee in order to get him into his cell. Interviewee also recalled that an MP ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation
Interviewee arrived to AG October 1, 2003 and was responsible for escorting detainees from AG to the court house and other detention facilities in downtown AG. Interviewee recalled hearing about photos being taken of a detainee who had "shit all ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Other Humiliation
This sworn statement is by a civilian contractor with the Titan Corp. assigned to Abu Ghraib prison on October 13, 2003 as a Linguist/Translator to conduct translation services during interrogations at the prison. The translator recalled hearing ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas
Use of water, Other, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced grooming
First page missing - only contains signature/oath.
Memo contains information obtained from an interview of [redacted]. Interviewee arrived in AG from late July 2003, he generally discusses the interrogation process and the interrogation rules of engagement (IROE). Interviewee noted that ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interviewee was assigned to AG from October 1, 2003 to February 6, 2004 and was responsible for the 'care and feeding' of the soldiers. Interviewee recalled hearing about three soldiers receiving Article 15s for an unauthorized interrogation of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Other Humiliation