The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding an urgent report about special jurisdiction matters in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The report includes information about pending investigations into the use of highly aggressive interrogation techniques against detainees at Guantanamo as observed by FBI agents.
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' URGENT REPORT
' Date: 02/17/2004
TO: AD,Chris Swecker
CI
General Counsel. Valerie CaProni
FROM: Indian Country/Special Jurisdiction Unit .(ICS.TU)
Unit Chief'
PREPARER OF U.GENT RF.PORT:
SS
SUBJECT: SPECIAL JURISDICTION MATTERS;
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA
DESCRIPTION OF MATTER:
On February 2;2005, the Criminal Investigative Division (CIDYreceiVed from the
Washington Field Office (WF0),• viasecure fax, a letter dated July 14„2004, from Deputy •
Assistant Director (DAD) T: J. Harrington of the Counterterrorism Division (CTD) to Major ,
GeneralDonaldJ. Ryder, Department of the Army, Criminal Investigative Cornmand.
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The letter advised of three situations in which Federal Bureau of Investigation .
(FBI) Special Agents•had observed highly aggressive interrogation techniques being used against .
detainees in Guantanamo (GITMO). One of the situations involVed. only U.S. military personnel
in the treatment of a detainee. Another situation involved a canine being used in an aggressive
manner to intimidate a detainee and that same detainee being subjected to isolation for over three
months. A third Situation involved a civilian contractor. This civilian contractor showed an FBI
agent a detainee who had been gagged with duct tape that covered much of his head. The
'contractor indicated to the agent that the detainee had been chanting the Koran and would not
stop. Whenthe agent asked the civilian contractor how the duct tape would.be removed, the
contractor did not answer. '
CID has reviewed the letter arid is directing WFO to open an investigation into the •
actions of the civilian contractor. WFO will investigatethe matter and present the facts gathered
to the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia.
CID will coordinate with WFO to notify the Department of Defense (DOD) of the
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FBI's investigation in accordance with the, "Memorandnrir of Understanding between the
Department of Justice and DOD Relating to the Investigation and Prosecution of Certain
Crimes," as found in the Mamial of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, Part 2, 18-2.
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