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also offered $ million to the to "show appreciation" for the support for the program.[1] According to a CIA cable, however, the ."[2] While the plan to construct the expanded facility was approved by the of Country , the CIA and developed complex mechanisms to in order to provide the $ million to the .[3]
(TS// //NF) in Country complicated the arrangements. when the Country requested an update on planning for the CIA detention site, he was told —inaccurately—that the planning had been discontinued.[4] In , when the facility received its first CIA detainees, informed the CIA that the of Country "probably has an incomplete notion [regarding the facility's] actual function, i.e., he probably believes that it is some sort of center."[5]
3. At Least 17 CIA Detainees Subjected to the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Without CIA Headquarters Authorization
(TS// //NF) CIA cables from the spring of 2003 and afterwards describe multiple examples of interrogation practices at CIA detention sites that were inconsistent with the CIA's detention and interrogation guidelines. CIA officers at DETENTION SITE COBALT—led principally by Chief of Interrogations —also described a number of interrogation activities in cables that were not approved by CIA Headquarters. CIA headquarters failed to respond, inquire, or investigate:
- Cables revealing that the CIA's chief of interrogations used water dousing against detainees, including with cold water and/or ice water baths, as an interrogation technique without prior approval from CIA Headquarters;[6]
- ↑ HEADQUARTERS
- ↑ [REDACTED] 4088
- ↑ See Volume I for additional details.
- ↑ [REDACTED] 5293 . See also [REDACTED] 5327 .
- ↑ [REDACTED] 5417 . See Volume III for additional details on detainees in Country .
- ↑ 39042 ( MAY 03); 38596 (201220Z MAY 03); 39582 (041743Z JUN 03); 38557 (191641Z MAY 03); 38597 (201225Z MAY 03); 39101 MAY 03). Water dousing was categorized as a "standard" interrogation technique in June 2003.
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