John Bruce Jessen

John Bruce Jessen (born July 28, 1949 ) (pseudonym: Hammond Dunbar) is one of the American Air Force psychologists who developed the CIA torture program for the Bush administration .

After his retirement, he and his business partner James Mitchell signed a contract with the CIA in 2002 to develop the controversial interrogation program " Enhanced Interrogation Techniques " - including the use of torture on CIA prisoners. The two had never even participated in interrogations before. Therefore, in their concept, they copied almost word for word the military training program SERE 1 , which in turn was based on North Korean torture methods. The Jessen and Mitchell joint venture had up to 60 employees at one time and is reported to have earned $ 81 million from the work.

The techniques developed were rated as torture by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence .

On October 15, 2012, the First Mormon Presidency named Jessen bishop of the 6th Ward of Spokane . Due to various protests, he later resigned from the office.

In 2017, the civil rights organization ACLU filed a lawsuit against Jessen for mistreating terror suspects in secret CIA prisons. The process is scheduled to start in September 2017, as a federal court in Washington state ruled.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Häntzschel: Torture Program of the CIA: Water, Light and Country Music , Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 12, 2014
2. ^ The Nation: The CIA Didn't Just Torture, It Experimented on Human Beings , Jan. 5, 2015
3. ↑ The culturalhall podcast Mormon News Report of October 14, 2015: Section 3 ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ US court deals with CIA interrogation: first trial on torture methods. Two psychologists are charged in Washington. They are said to have developed methods of interrogating suspects after the 9/11 terrorist attack. In: taz.de. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .