UNCLASSIFIEDTOP SECRET// //NOFORN
disclosures when he believes people, emails, or other source material are available to the USG for checking his responses."[1]
(TS// //NF) The same day, KSM provided additional information on the Heathrow Airport plotting, much of which he would recant in 2004.[2] KSM also discussed Jaffar al-Tayyar again, prompting the detention site personnel to refer to the "all-purpose" al-Tayyar whom KSM had "woven... into practically every story, each time with a different role."[3] After KSM had included al-Tayyar in his discussion of Majid Khan's gas station plot, KSM debriefer wrote in an email that "[t]oday [al-Tayyar's] working with Majid Khan, yesterday the London crowd, the day before Padilla – you get the point."[4] Beginning the evening of March 18, 2003, KSM began a period of sleep deprivation, most of it in the standing position, which would last for seven and a half days, or approximately 180 hours.[5]
(TS// //NF) On March 19, 2003, the interrogators at the detention site decided to waterboard KSM due to KSM's inconsistent information about Jaffar al-Tayyar's passport.[6] According to CIA cables, after assuming his position on the waterboard, KSM "seemed to lose control" and appeared "somewhat frantic," stating that he "had been forced to lie, and ma[k]e up stories about" Jaffar al-Tayyar because of his interrogators.[7] KSM then stated that his reporting on al-Tayyar's role in Majid Khan's plotting was a "complete fabrication" and that al-Tayyar had been compromised as an operative and that as a result, al-Tayyar could not be used for a terrorist operation.[8] In response, the interrogators told KSM that they only wanted to hear him speak if he was revealing information on the next attack.[9] Deputy Chief of ALEC Station later told the inspector general that it was around this time that contract interrogator DUNBAR stated that "he had not seen a 'resistor' [sic] like KSM, and was 'going to go to school on this guy.'"[10] According to CIA records, the interrogators then "devote[d] all measures to pressuring [KSM] on the single issue of the 'next attack on America,'" including attention grabs, insult slaps, walling, water dousing, and additional waterboard sessions.[11]
(TS// //NF) On March 20, 2003, KSM continued to be subjected to the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques throughout the day, including a period of "intense questioning
- ↑ 10884 (182140Z MAR 03)
- ↑ 10883 (182127Z MAR 03), disseminated as ; 22939 (031541Z JUL 04). CIA records indicate that CIA officers believed that KSM's recantations were credible. See KSM detainee review in Volume III.
- ↑ 10884 (182140Z MAR 03)
- ↑ Email from: [REDACTED], OFFICE: ; to: [REDACTED]; subject: JAFAR REQUEST; date: March 18, 2003, at 08:16:07 PM.
- ↑ 10884 (182140Z MAR 03); 10888 (190805Z MAR 03); 10999 (260835Z MAR 03); 10969 (240950Z MAR 03)
- ↑ 10892 (191503Z MAR 03); 10902 (201037Z MAR 03)
- ↑ 10902 (201037Z MAR 03)
- ↑ 10894 (191513Z MAR 03); 10902 (201037Z MAR 03)
- ↑ 10902 (201037Z MAR 03)
- ↑ Interview of , by [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], Office of the Inspector General, April 3, 2003.
- ↑ 10902 (201037Z MAR 03); 10900 (191907Z MAR 03); 10896 (191524Z MAR 03)
TOP SECRET// //NOFORN
Page 90 of 499
UNCLASSIFIED
