Sworn statement of a Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3) with A Company, 202d Military Intelligence Battalion who arrived Abu Ghraib prison on or about January 18, 2004. Interviewee described procedures dealing with hard copy packets of detainee files at Abu Ghraib. the CW3 stated "rior to my arrival and during the first approximately two months of my time here, the dossiers were separated and filed by Section and the Section Sergeant was responsible for maintaining control of the paperwork. Since then, all of the dossiers are filed together and accounted for by the ICE leadership. Rarely does a dossier physically leave the ICE. When it does, it is only for a short time. When intelligence exploitation of the Detainee is completed, the Detainee Assessment Branch (DAB) process begins. The interrogator and the Section Sergeant decide the Detainee has no more intelligence value. They ensure the dossier is complete and attach a DAB Memorandum for Record in the BATs database. The dossier is then brought to me. I review the dossier and the MFR and pass the dossier to the Collection, Management, and Dissemination (CMD) shop for further review. Previous to May, 2004, I was taking out all the handwritten notes and the Interrogation Plans of the dossier before submitting the dossiers to CMD. Starting in May, 2004, I began leaving the Interrogation Plans in the dossier. After passing to CMD, the dossier will never come back in to the ICE unless a requirement is found that has not been addressed. If the dossier does return, the requirement is addressed and the DAB process begins again. Processing exceptions to the counter-resistance policy differs between what happens now and what I was told was happening when I arrived."
SWORN STATEMENT For use of this form, see AR 190-45; the proQonenl agency is
LOCATION BCCF, ABU GHURAYB, IRAQ DAT TIME FILE NUMBER
LAS NAME, MIDDLE NAME SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER GRADE/STATUS
CW3
ORGANIZATION OR ADDRESS
A Company, 202d Military Intelligence Battalion, APO AE 09342
WANT TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING ENT UNDER OATH: Ned at the Baghdad Central Correction Facility (BCCF) at Abu Ghurayb, Iraq on or about 1
2004. I am ently the Day Shift OIC for the Interrogation Control Element (ICE) at the Joint Interrogation Debriefing Center (JIDC) and have been since my arrival, This sworn statement covers procedures dealing with hard copy packets of Detainee files during that time frame. The hard copy packets (referred to as dossiers) are passed from the In-Processing Section to the Magistrate's office. Those dossiers of MI interest are then signed for by the ICE leadership and brought to the ICE. The dossiers contain all the hard copy paperwork that involves .the Detainee...capture card, sworn statements, magistrate file, prior reporting, mei'ical in-processing sheet, all intelligence reporting, interrogator notes, and miscellaneos docameats. However, the content varies from dossier to dossier and is reliant on what paperwork is generated for each Detainee. The dossiers stay
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in the ICE for the duration of the intelligence exploitation of those detainees. The difference between the procedures prior to my arrival and now is fairly simple...accountability of the files. Prior to my arrival and during the first approximately two months of my time here, the dossiers were separated and filed by Section and the Section Sergeant was responsible for maintaining control of the paperwork. Since then, all of the dossiers are filed together and accounted for by the ICE leadership. Rarely does a dossier physically leave the ICE. When it does, it is only for a short time. When intelligence exploitation of the Detainee is completed, the Detainee Assessment Branch (DAB) process begins. The interrogator and the Section Sergeant decide the Detainee has no more intelligence value. They ensure the dossier is complete and attach a DAB Memorandum for Record in the BATs database. The dossier is then brought to me. I review the dossier and the MFR and pass the dossier to the Collection, Management, and Dissemination (CMD) shop for further review.
Previous to May, 2004, I
was taking out all the handwritten notes and the Interrogation Plans of the dossier before submitting the dossiers to CMD. Starting in May, 2004, I began leaving the Interrogation Plans in the dossier. After passing to CMD, the dossier will never come back in to the ICE unless a requirement is found that has not been addressed. If the dossier does return, the requirement is addressed and the DAB process begins again. Processing exceptions to the counter-resistance policy differs between what happens now and what I was told was happening when I arrived. The process up the chain of command is the same with the
interrogator providing an1v1FR to the Section Sergeant who reviews and passp it to
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i milt3s for approval to the Ml Bdc Commander who then sends it up the chain for final reviewand approval by LTG Sanchez. When I arrived at the JIDC, I was told that usually when an exception was approved by the CG, a confirmation would come down by either vocal confirmation or an e-mail and then followed sometimes by an actual copy of the signed and approved MFR When I came on board, there was never an instance of my instructing the interrogators to execute the exception without a signed copy of the MFR. I didn't have to. We either had a copy or we continued exploitation without executing that approacii strategy. I do not know what instances happened where exceptions were executed without a signed copy. This statement Just verifies what I heard when I got here.
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