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the thwarting of the "Dirty Bomb Plot" and the capture of Jose Padilla.[1] However, the chief of the Abu Zubaydah Task Force stated that "AZ's info alone would never have allowed us to find them," while another CIA officer stated that the CIA was already "alert" to the threat posed by Jose Padilla, and that the CIA's "suspicion" was only "enhanced during the debriefings of Abu Zubaydah."[2] Additional information on the "Dirty Bomb Plot" and the capture of Jose Padilla is provided later in this summary.
(TS// //NF) During the month of April 2002, which included a period during which Abu Zubaydah was hospitalized, on life support, and unable to speak, the CIA disseminated 39 intelligence reports based on his interrogations.[3] At the end of April 2002, the DETENTION SITE GREEN interrogation team provided CIA Headquarters with three interrogation strategies. CIA Headquarters chose the most coercive interrogation option, which was proposed and supported by CIA contractor SWIGERT.[4] This coercive interrogation option—which included sensory deprivation—was again opposed by the FBI special agents at the detention site.[5] The interrogation proposal was to engage in "only a single-minded, consistent, totally focused questioning of current threat information."[6] Once implemented, this approach failed to produce the information CIA Headquarters believed Abu Zubaydah possessed: threats to the United States and information about al-Qa'ida operatives located in the United States. Nonetheless, Abu Zubaydah continued to provide other intelligence. In May 2002, the CIA disseminated 56 intelligence reports based on the interrogations.[7]
(TS// //NF) In early June 2002, the CIA interrogation team recommended that Abu Zubaydah spend several weeks in isolation while the interrogation team members departed the facility "as a means of keeping [Abu Zubaydah] off-balance and to allow the team needed time off for a break and to attend to personal matters ," as well as to discuss "the endgame" of Abu Zubaydah with officers from CIA Headquarters.[8] As a result, from June 18, 2002, through August 4, 2002, Abu Zubaydah spent 47 days in isolation without being
- ↑ See information in this summary and Volume II for additional details on the CIA's representations on the effectiveness of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques to policy makers and the Department of Justice.
- ↑ CIA email from: ; to: ; subject: AZ information; date: July 10, 2002, at 01:18:50 PM. The email states: "The only way we put this together is that Paki liaison mentioned to the arrest of two individuals (one being an American) and put two and two together. Therefore, AZ's info alone would never have allowed us to find them." See also SSCI Transcript "Detention of Jose Padilla," dated June 12, 2002 (DTS #2002-2603), in which a CIA officer states, "the Pakistani liaison felt it was important to bring [Padilla] to our attention, given the recent raids…there was enough information indicating that his travel was suspicious, to put us on alert. This suspicion was enhanced during the debriefings of Abu Zubaydah, which occurred on 21 April."
- ↑ See analysis provided to the Committee on April 18, 2011, by the CIA, based on CIA searches in 2011 of the database. The titles of specific intelligence reports resulting from information provided by Abu Zubaydah are listed in the Abu Zubaydah detainee review in Volume III.
- ↑ ALEC MAY 02)
- ↑ See email exchange from: [REDACTED]; to [REDACTED]; with multiple ccs; subject: Turning Up the Heat in the AZ Interrogations; date: April 30, 2002, at 12:02:47 PM.
- ↑ See email exchange from: [REDACTED]; to [REDACTED]; with multiple ccs; subject: Turning Up the Heat in the AZ Interrogations; date: April 30,2002, at 12:02:47 PM.
- ↑ See analysis provided to the Committee on April 18, 2011, by the CIA, based on CIA searches in 2011 of the database. The titles of specific intelligence reports resulting from information provided by Abu Zubaydah are listed in the Abu Zubaydah detainee review in Volume III.
- ↑ 10424 (070814Z JUN 02)
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