The CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: How they began and where they were performed

• Antonio Álvarez-Cruz ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

     Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

     Santiago de Compostela, España

     
• Localización: Revista de historia de la psicología, ISSN-e 2445-0928, ISSN 0211-0040, Vol. 44, Nº 4, 2023, págs. 13-22
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5093/rhp2023a14
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Las técnicas de interrogatorio intensificado de la CIA: cómo se iniciaron y dónde fueron utilizadas
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• Resumen
  • español

    Las técnicas de interrogatorio intensificado (TIIs) son métodos de explotación de sospechosos desarrollados por psicólogos contratados por la Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), que fueron implementados en prisiones secretas construidas y operadas por la agencia fuera del territorio de EEUU, durante la “guerra contra el terrorismo” desencadenada por este país después de haber sido objeto de atentados terroristas en Nueva York y Washington el 11 de septiembre de 2001. Este artículo revisa algunos antecedentes y el contexto de estos procedimientos antiterroristas, centrándose en cómo y dónde fueron empleados, usando tres prisiones secretas como ejemplos: la primera en utilizarse, la que alcanzó la peor reputación y una de las implementadas en Europa, además de algunos incidentes que ocurrieron en cada una de ellas. Las TIIs parecen el último episodio de una serie de prácticas de interrogatorio de la CIA en las que se ha aplicado la psicología científica.

  • English

    Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) are methods of exploitation towards interrogatees developed by psychologists under contract to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), implemented in secret prisons (black sites) built and run by the agency outside US territory during the “war on terrorism” that the USA triggered after being targeted with terrorist attacks against New York and Washington on September 11th, 2001. This paper reviews some antecedents of and the context surrounding these counterterrorist methods, focusing on how and where they were carried out, using three black sites as examples: the first one to open, one with the most controversial reputation, and the other operating in Europe, in addition to some incidents that occurred in each of them. The EITs appear to be the latest episode in a string of CIA interrogation practices which have applied scientific psychology.

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