Kubark manual
The Kubark manual is the first of two formerly secret US Army and CIA interrogation manuals of modern torture methods of the CIA . The word Kubark is a CIA cryptonym for the CIA headquarters.
history
The handbook was compiled in 1953 by the CIA after extensive experiments of its own on American prisoners in Mannheim, on German and Soviet prisoners in Frankfurt, and after joint examinations by American doctors and German former doctors from the Dachau concentration camp .
Apart from the CIA and CIC , the manual was also widely used by friendly dictatorships in South America, e. B. in Chile . His basic statements were refined in Vietnam and used in torture in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo .
Content
The main methods concern psychological torture to destroy the personality such as humiliation, drugs ( mescaline ) and electric shocks as well as standing torture or hypothermia after hosing down with water.
See also
literature
- [1] (PDF; 448 kB) and engl. (PDF files; 2.7 mB 2.5 mB 606 kB)
- Alfred W. McCoy : Torture and Let Torture. 50 years of torture research and practice by the CIA and the US military. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-86150-729-3
Web links
- engl. , Original manuscript in three parts (PDF files; 2.7 mB 2.5 mB 606 kB)
- [2] (PDF; 448 kB), German translation
- Torture Experts — The CIA's Secret Methods , broadcast on May 10, 2011 at 8:15 pm on 3sat.
- Application of the methods in different countries