DOD Memo: From Thomas W. O'Connell, Assistant Secretary of Defense to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, re: Coordination on Procedures for Investigation into Deaths of Detainees in the Custody of the Armed Forces of the United States, June 16, 2004

This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death of Khan Achmed, a detainee who died from TB, pneumonia and kidney failure at Bagram Detention Facility, Afghanistan. Thomas W. O'Connell, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, informed Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, that all would be in order after "an official copy of the death certificate is received along with an acknowledgment of no property in storage on this individual." Precautions were being taken to protect U.S. forces from the slight chance of contamination.