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

July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4974
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 whose tenure of assignment at Guantanamo was March 3, 2003 through April 15, 2003 stated that "I observed no aggressive treatment or interrogations of Guantanamo detainees. I did not use nor did I observe the use of interview techniques which were not consistent with Bureau [FBI] interview policy/guidelines". However, the agent added "On two or three occasions, during regularly scheduled interviews, detainees advised me that they had been subjected to loud music to keep them awake and had been shown pornographic photos in an effort to upset them".
AUTHORING AGENCIES:
RECEIVING AGENCIES:
OFFICIALS MENTIONED:
INCIDENTS OF ABUSE MENTIONED:
  • Unknown date, Unknown, Guantanamo
    • FBI agent whose tenure of assignment at Guantanamo was March 3, 2003 through April 15, 2003 stated that "On two or three occasions...detainees advised me that they had been subjected to loud music to keep them awake and had been shown pornographic photos in an effort to upset them".