The training focused on evasion methods, interrogation resistance techniques, and how to mislead inspectors.
The CIA and Pentagon colluded to reverse-engineer the interrogation resistance training given to US airmen at high risk of capture by the Soviets, employing techniques based on the old KGB playbook.
The Prisoner of War Interrogation Resistance Program, also known as pow camp.
For this exercise in creative nonfiction, Ms. Fusco and six other women submitted to a "prisoner-of-war interrogation-resistance program" conducted by former United States military personnel.
The cable also indicated who should participate in future interrogations: Psychologists, like Swigert and Dunbar, "familiar with interrogation, exploitation and resistance to interrogation should shape compliance of high value captives prior to debriefing by substantive experts".
"Recognizing and Developing Countermeasures to Al Qaeda Resistance to Interrogation Techniques: A Resistance Training Perspective" is footnoted in the Senate's executive summary.
A classified memorandum issued by General Sanchez on Oct. 12, outlining a new "interrogation and counter-resistance policy," directs that "the interrogator should appear to be the one who controls all aspects of the interrogation... as well as food, clothing, and shelter given to the security internee," according to a briefing provided to Senate staff members last week by two senior Army officers.
Oct. 12: A new "Interrogation and Counter-Resistance Policy" is issued in wake of Miller visit/report.
When Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Gregory B. Craig, the White House counsel, pressed to release some Bush interrogation memorandums, they faced resistance from the Central Intelligence Agency; the internal debate has not been resolved.
American interrogators took the somewhat unusual step of immediately asking Mr. Hussein about substantive issues, in part because he appeared mentally and physically fatigued, and thus his resistance to interrogation seemed low, officials said.
Initially thought to possess vital information on al-Qaida and its plots, and hardened by resistance to interrogation, Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times, stuffed into a wooden box not much bigger than a coffin, held naked, kept awake for extensive periods and had his body painfully contorted.
