FBI Email re: Response to Steve McCraw’s Email on Detainee Abuse and Maltreatment at Guantanamo Bay

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This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The agent stated that he observed two unknown interviewers from an unknown government agency in an interview room with a a detainee sitting down on the floor in the center of the room, with rap-type music was being Played at a very high volume, and while the interviewers smoked cigars and blew the smoke towards the face of the detainee, and "continuously laughed it the detainee".

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Non-legal Memo
Doc_date: 
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Monday, January 1, 2007
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(INSD) (FBI)
From: (INSD)
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Wednesday, July 1472004 7:5G AM
To: (SE). (FBI}
Subject: RE; GTMO
UHSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED
NON-RECORD

.0K, I will consider this a positive respoilse_Ao requirement for you . to do an EC,. Thanks for the response.
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Sent: Tuesday,•July 13, 7.D04 2:24 PM.
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(INSD) (FBI)
Subject: GTMO .

SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED •
NON-RECORD

In response to the request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO:
.._.. I served a tpr at.GTIvicrfran early JUne to frig July. 200 On one qoca.sSion I witnessed interview. • ..techniques that I believe were not consistent with FBI inter-View policy or gilidelines. Sometime in mid to late June f Viewed. an inierrogetion'through one way•glass being conducted in an adjacent interview room. • I witnessed a detainee , seated in the middle bf the flOor• while loudlrap or heavy metal music was being • --played from a portable CD player. Two interrogators were standing above the detainee and continuousiy1
-laughing and blowing cigar smoke in the detainee's farce: -While the identities of the interrogators is
• unknown, I believe that they were associated with -Defense Hurnint Servites'ar contracted by the US•Army.

A more detailed EC will be sent regarding' this incident.
FBI S.eattle
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RESPONSES-204
7/14/2D04
DOJFBI 3760

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