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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June 25, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6689
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the seventh day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
| ACLU-RDI 6688
This cable includes the bios of the detainees and lists the EITs they were subjected to while they were in CIA custody. It is redacted almost in full with the exception of information on the following three detainees: Suleiman Abdullah, Gul ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Gul Rahman, Abdul Karim
EIT, Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, Attention grasp, Walling, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity
June 24, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6687
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the sixth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 23, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6686
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the fifth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
| ACLU-RDI 6685
This cable discusses the results of CIA Directorate of Operations investigation into the November 2002 death of Gul Rahman, including hourly updates on his condition the day of his death.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Gul Rahman
Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity, Other
June 22, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6683
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the fourth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
EIT, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
June 19, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6682
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the second day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
Apr. 01, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6678
This is a memo from the CIA which describes the month-long custody and interrogation of detainee Abu Zubaydah and requests comments from Alec/HQs "on establishing the priority focus of the ongoing interrogations of Abu Zubaydah".
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah, Abd Al-Rahman M. Al-Umari
EIT, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
Apr. 07, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6677
This is a memo detailing the visit of a three-person behavioral interrogation team's visit to Abu Zubaydah's holding compound and "evolving" interrogation room. It includes details of the team's suggestions for cell modifications, including "the ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
Light or sound, Environmental manipulation
| ACLU-RDI 6675
This document contains interview notes of a redacted official discussing their knowledge of the events surrounding Gul Rahman's death. The interview discusses different detention conditions at the COBALT site and the kinds of conditions Gul ...
Sept. 02, 2016
Cable, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Bruce Jessen
Gul Rahman
EIT, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity