Discusses existence of new photos of abuse of detainees. A CD of photographs was provided by CIA to Department of Defense who forwarded it to the Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID). Some of the photographs were the Abu Ghraib ones shown by the media. It is unknown what the photos contain.
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[U1 ALLEGED NEW PHOTOS OF DETAINEE ABUSE (IRAQ) fUSACIDC1: This responds to an RFI from HQDA regarding "new" photographs allegedly depicting additional detainee abuse, to include sexual assaults. On 14 May 04, during a meeting in OSD, a member of the CIA's Office of General Counsel (OGC) provided a disk to the DoD OGC that contained 26 digital, photographs and suggested that it might be of some use during the investigation of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. DoD OGC then had the06-1 disk couriered to COL .SJA, CJTF-7. On 19 May 04, the photographs were provided to b `17/11 Army CID in Iraq. A review of the photographs discicised that one was an innocuous photograph of Secretary Rumsfield with BG Karpinski during a briefing, 14 were captured images of the Abu Ghraib detainee photographs shown by 60 Minutes (and the CBS logo can be seen on the photographs), two photographs depicting three nude apparent Iraqi males being guarded by four apparent US Soldiers in combat gear, not in a detention facility setting, and nine photographs depicting sexual acts between a female and several males dressed in green BDU-like uniforms.
There is no indication that any of these last nine photographs involve US Soldiers or occurred in either Iracor Afghanistan. Some of the same photographs appeared in several Egyptian newspapers on 4 May
04. On 5 May 04, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt demanded a retraction for the photographs, and issued a statement saying "We have done a thorough investigation of the origin of these photos and have conclusive evidence that they originated on a pornographic website. They are clearly staged photos, done by actors, as the site itself states." Army CID has identified the pornographic website as sexinwar.com , the photographs are on that site, and the site does say the events are staged by actors.
4fir 4-3. .of Weare, NH (SSG.defense attorney), advised that he had CIO 76A-On 17 May 04, Mr received informatior lient's family which might be evidence in the case, to include original journal entries and an "mpg stick" with relevant pictorial information, photographs, and writings. Mr4111111 0". ‘76.'
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has agreed to release the items to a CID Agent at 0930, 21 May 04 (Friday) after he has made copies of the items. It is unknown if the photographs will be new photographs or just more duplicates of photographs already in custody.
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