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Levin's report cites Mitchell and Jessen by name, and states that Jessen had been contracted by the Department of Defense to come up with a set of interrogation techniques for US military interrogators in late 2001 before he went on to work for the CIA.

But General Hayden bristled when asked about Congressional attempts to mandate that C.I.A. interrogators be required to use the more limited set of interrogation methods contained in the Army Field Manual, which is used by military interrogators.

The CIA hired Mitchell and Jessen as contractors in 2002 to train interrogators and to develop an "alternative" set of interrogation methods for Abu Zubaydah, the CIA's first high-value detainee who was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan in March 2002.

In the future, the report urged, all government agencies operating in Iraq should have to follow a uniform set of interrogation practices.

The Schlesinger panel implicitly blamed Mr. Rumsfeld for contributing to a confusing set of interrogation polices, but its members said he should not resign.

"Clash Foreseen Between C.I.A. and Pentagon" (front page, May 10) refers to the Pentagon's proposal to have a separate set of interrogation techniques, "presumably more coercive," for the terrorism suspects held at Guantánamo Bay.

Without a shred of evidence that coercive interrogation worked, the C.I.A. deputized two psychologists, neither of whom had experience in interrogation, to devise a set of coercive interrogation techniques.

The e-mails are seen as important because they may shed light on communications between F.B.I. agents and other officials involved in two sets of interrogations of Mr. Ahmed, who faces charges that include providing material support to Al Shabab, a terrorist group based in Somalia.

The review stemmed from concerns raised by Pentagon lawyers and interrogators at Guantánamo after Mr. Rumsfeld approved a set of harsher interrogation techniques in December 2002 to use on a Saudi detainee, Mohamed al-Kahtani, who was believed to be the planned 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 terror plot.

But Congress last year permitted the C.I.A. to use a secret set of alternative interrogation methods, which were approved by President Bush in July.

The documents provide new details about the still-murky early months of the C.I.A.'s detention program, when the agency began using a set of harsh interrogation techniques weeks before the Justice Department issued a written legal opinion in August 2002 authorizing their use.