Ten minutes later, we arrive at the F.M.S. station; I won't be let out of it until a little bit before midnight, four hours of interrogation later.
"A significant amount" of what Mohammed told the agency during these interrogations "was later identified as fabricated," the report concludes, relying on the CIA's internal assessments at the time of the interrogations.
Under interrogation, he later boasted, "his judges" (who included the notorious rackmaster Richard Topcliffe) "could get nothing of him to all their demands but Aye and No".
CIA tapes of the interrogation were later destroyed reportedly on the orders of the head of the agency's clandestine operations, José Rodriguez, although no charges were brought.
Amnesty International said that although she initially confessed to the baby's murder during her interrogation, "she later retracted and denied it was true, saying she had been forced to make the 'confession' under duress following a physical assault".
One of Syria's most senior intelligence officers in Lebanon until the withdrawal of Bashar al-Assad's troops in 2005, he was headquartered in the run-down Beau Rivage Hotel in west Beirut and also in the Bekaa town of Anjaar, where Lebanese men would be taken for interrogation and later emerge – or not emerge at all – sans teeth or nails.
Each teen confessed to the crime during 24 hours of interrogation, but later claimed their statements had been coerced by police.
(In fact, Boudreau invoked his Fifth Amendment right in 2005, before a grand jury probing abusive interrogations. He later clarified to me that he had never taken the Fifth in a civil suit).
And yet agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have continued to rely on handwritten notes taken during interrogations, which they later type onto so-called 302 forms.
Eichmann stated at his later interrogations that Heydrich told him in mid-September that Hitler had ordered that all Jews in German-controlled Europe were to be killed.
