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("Confinement boxes" were an approved measure).
Yet the OMS personnel providing the guidelines took a dim view of the intelligence value of the confinement boxes.
Zubaydah says he was placed in a number of different confinement boxes in an intense period of interrogation in Afghanistan in 2002.
They forced him into "confinement boxes", one the size of a coffin and the other just two and a half feet square and 21 inches deep.
Besides the miserable conditions, a major issue in the case is New York's excessive use of these confinement boxes, or what the state calls "special housing units".
In 2002, CIA officials drew up a list of harsh techniques, including those that would allow interrogators to slap and forcefully grab detainees, put them in stress positions and deprive them of sleep, place them in confinement boxes and subject them to waterboarding, or simulated drowning.
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6. Abu Zubaida, the CIA's first detainee, spent 266 hours in a coffin-size confinement box.
He could not recall how long he spent in each confinement box, and believes he may have passed out inside.
"The CIA interrogators told Abu Zubaydah that the only way he would leave the facility was in the coffin-shaped confinement box," the Senate report noted.
The technique, first proposed by contractor psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, is known as the "confinement box" and was dramatized in the movie Zero Dark Thirty.
Ten techniques are approved, listed as: attention grasp, walling (in which the suspect could be pushed into a wall), a facial hold, a facial slap, cramped confinement, wall standing, sleep deprivation, insects placed in a confinement box (the suspect had a fear of insects) and the waterboard.
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