U.S. Interrogation Model: Chinese Korean War Techniques
Military trainers teaching interrogators about possible techniques to use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay relied on Chinese methods used during the Korean War that often elicited false confessions, the New York Times reports.
An interrogation expert told the Times that a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques,” part of a 2002 Guantanamo training class, was copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of techniques used on American prisoners. The study was called “Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions From Air Force Prisoners of War.”
The 1957 article described “one form of torture” that included forcing American prisoners to stand “for exceedingly long periods,” sometimes in “extreme cold.” Both techniques have been used against terrorist suspects.
