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FBI Email re: Response to Steve McCraw’s Email on Detainee Abuse and Maltreatment at Guantanamo Bay
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4982
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. This FBI agent touring through Guantanamo stated the following: "I did not personally observe aggressive treatment of detainees. I am aware however, that detainees could be identified to be placed on a list for a specific interrogation technique involving interruption of sleep pattern called [the] "frequent flyer program”.
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- Unknown date, Unknown, Guantanamo
- FBI agent touring through Guantanamo stated the following: "I did not personally observe aggressive treatment of detainees. I am aware however, that detainees could be identified to be placed on a list for a specific interrogation technique involving interruption of sleep pattern called [the] "frequent flyer program”. With this particular technique, identified detainees were moved frequently from cell block to cell block at intervals that appeared to be every hour or every two hours depending on the shifts and availability of military personnel to move the detainee. Detainees were moved along with all of their personal belongings. Due to the movement to different cells the detainees had their sleep interrupted throughout a 24 hour period. The duration of the program for particular detainees seemed to depend on the cooperativeness of the detainee. I did not participate in this program and do not know of any participation of FBI personnel in recommending detainees to this program.
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