More nightmarish recollections eventually reveal that Ian took part in an interrogation involving waterboarding.
In the TV version, contestants undergo enhanced interrogation, involving sleep and food deprivation, as well as ceaseless physical punishment administered by men with neck tattoos.
John le Carré, the author of the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – which, in 1979, became a TV classic – has said that scenes of interrogation involve dialogue and drama at their purest.
My most challenging interrogation involved Nguyen Van Tai, the highest-ranking enemy officer we captured.
The simulated interrogations involve sensory deprivation, forced nudity and other officially sanctioned procedures.
Several times during the session, Buckley showed videos of interrogations involving serious crimes, such as murder, theft, and rape.
But military investigators are taking the issue seriously enough to review taped interrogations involving the Arabic-language interpreters under scrutiny to spot-check their accuracy.
C.I.A. officials also took part in some interrogations involving high-value targets, including as many as two dozen prisoners in Abu Ghraib, an agency official said.
Officers interviewing suspects will be prohibited from using violence or threatening to harm the suspect or family members, and all interrogations involving suspected homicides and sexual assaults will be videotaped from start to finish.
The treatment, intended to soften up detainees for interrogations, involved hours-long physical exercise sessions, hoods and beatings at the same time guards at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were carrying out similar tactics.
