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.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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This CIA memorandum states that Gul Rahman has refused to confirm his identity or provide information to interrogators. The memorandum requests assistance to apply "alternative psychological pressures" to move Rahman "toward a debriefing mode."
Sept. 02, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Gul Rahman
This memorandum describes the chronology of events relating to the death of Gul Rahman at the COBALT facility.
Sept. 02, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Gul Rahman
EIT
This memorandum states that Gul Rahman was successfully rendered without incident and that there were not security issues or problems in executing the rendition.
Sept. 02, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Gul Rahman
This memorandum describes the plan for obtaining cooperation of Gul Rahman, including possible enhanced interrogation due to the fact that Rahman is likely withholding valuable information.
Sept. 02, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Gul Rahman
EIT
This memorandum states that an individual in custody after a raid is possibly Gul Rahman and that the station will work to make a positive identification.
Sept. 02, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Gul Rahman
EIT
This document contains an interview of a redacted subject on the death of Gul Rahman. The interviewee describes Rahman's behavior as a detainee and the events that happened after learning of Rahman's death.
Sept. 02, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Gul Rahman
EIT, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature
This document, prepared by the Chief of Medical Services, summarizes and reflects upon the rendition, detention and interrogation program. The findings include that in a particular no evidence was found that the use of waterboard produced ...
This document is the CIA's response to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program. "The comments presented in this paper on The Senate Select Committee on ...
This document is a CIA Memo drafted for the Deputy Director for Operations via the Associate Deputy Director for Operations/Counterintelligence. The memo contains background information related to the treatment and condition of detainees as it ...
This heavily redacted memorandum states that Gul Rahman has been uncooperative in debriefing sessions and suggests that interrogators need to create a plan to best extract information.
Non-legal Memo
Gul Rahman
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