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(TS// //NF) The CIA officer in charge of DETENTION SITE COBALT, [CIA OFFICER 1], was a junior officer on his first overseas assignment with no previous experience or training in handling prisoners or conducting interrogations. [CIA OFFICER 1] was the DETENTION SITE COBALT manager during the period in which a CIA detainee died and numerous CIA detainees were subjected to unapproved coercive interrogation techniques.[1] A review of CIA records found that prior to [CIA OFFICER 1's] deployment and assignment as the CIA's DETENTION SITE COBALT manager, other CIA officers recommended [CIA OFFICER 1] not have continued access to classified information due to a "lack of honesty, judgment, and maturity."[2] According to records, "the chief of CTC told [ [CIA OFFICER 1]] that he would not want [him] in his overseas station."[3] A supervising officer assessed that [CIA OFFICER 1]:
- "has issues with judgment and maturity, [and his] potential behavior in the field is also worrisome. [The officer] further advised that [ [CIA OFFICER 1]] was only put into processing for an overseas position so that someone would evaluate all of the evidence of this situation all together. [The officer further noted that [ [CIA OFFICER 1]] might not listen to his chief of station when in the field."[4]
- 2. CIA Records Lack Information on CIA Detainees and Details of Interrogations in Country
(TS// //NF) Detainees held in Country were detained under the authority of the MON; however, CIA officers conducted no written assessment of whether these detainees
- ↑ See April 27, 2005, CIA Inspector General, Report of Investigation: Death of a Detainee . April 7, 2005, Memorandum for John Helgerson, Inspector General, from Robert Grenier, Subject: Comments on Draft Report of Investigation: Death of a Detainee (2003-7402-IG).
- ↑ , Subject: [CIA OFFICER 1].
- ↑ [CIA OFFICER 1]
- ↑ [CIA OFFICER I]
Death Investigation – Gul RAHMAN; and CIA Inspector General, Report of Investigation, Death of a Detainee (2003-7402-IG), April 27, 2005. One senior interrogator, , told the CIA OIG that "literally, a detainee could go for days or weeks without anyone looking at him," and that his team found one detainee who, "'as far as we could determine,' had been chained to the wall in a standing position for 17 days." According to the CIA interrogator, some of the CIA detainees at DETENTION SITE COBALT "'literally looked like a dog that had been kenneled.' When the doors to their cells were opened, 'they cowered.'" (See Interview Report, 2003-7123-IG, Review of Interrogations for Counterterrorism Purposes, , April 30, 2003.) The chief of interrogations, , told the CIA OIG that "[DETENTION SITE COBALT] is good for interrogations because it is the closest thing he has seen to a dungeon, facilitating the displacement of detainee expectations." (See Interview Report, 2003-7123-IG, Review of Interrogations for Counterterrorism Purposes, , April 7, 2003.) An analyst who conducted interrogations at DETENTION SITE COBALT told the CIA OIG that "[DETENTION SITE COBALT] is an EIT." (See Interview Report, 2003-7123-IG, Review of Interrogations for Counterterrorism Purposes, , May 8, 2003.)
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