This memo is to provide guidance and clarity as to the interview & interrogation techniques permitted to be used on Guantanamo detainees. There is a limiting principle outlined and general observations on the use and effectiveness of SERE as a method of interrogation.
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CRIMINAL INVIIIMIDATION TANK Meg (DIPLOYSD)
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MEMORANDUM FOR TITLGTM0/12
SUBJECT: 7TF aruo "SERE" IN'TERROGATION SOP DTD 10 DEC 02
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1. On 14 December 02. prior the "Decision Making" Wet with the CG, you provided me a copy
of TTP OTMO SERB INTERROGATION SOP dated 10 Dec • and asked me to review it and
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ChM' for TTP OTMO dated IS Nov 02, CrIlt0 While the subject SOP clearly does not app y tomterrogatots (applicable only, to military and civilian ieterrogators assigned
to .T1747TMO), LEA in cottmction with the PE
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2. General Qbeetzgliona: Both the military and LEA share the identical Mission of obtaining
intelligence in odder to prevent future attacks on Americans. .However, LEA has the additional
responsibility of seeking reliable infotmatirm/evidence from detainees to be used in subsequent
legal proceedings .
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The'SERE methods we designed for use in a battlefield environment as a means of
collecting tactical intelligence (e.g, in uncover enemy plans, mo,capibillties and logistical,era.)
5. LEA agents are responsible for investigating a wide variety of criminal sad counterintelligence matters around the world. Accordingly, they are highly trained and
experienced in eliciting inf,reluctant sub,
of diverse cultural and socio-
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7. Utilizing rapport-based methods; UM have realized numerous successes during several major terrorism investigations including the bombings of embassies in Bag Africa, the bombing of the USS Cole and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Like most of the OT/v10 detainees, theperpetrators of these terrorist acts were motivated by a distorted religious doctrine and Mutatedby a group/cultural dynamic.
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