This letter from Jacob Kellenberger of President of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) is a request that the ICRC reports on the detention facilities in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Afghanistan be transmitted or shared with the U.S. Congressional committees so they can understand and appreciate the conditions the ICRC found in the mentioned facilities. Mr. Kellenberger asks that this be carried out under conditions that respect the confidential nature of those documents in order to preserve and protect the integrity of the ICRC's work in this field. Mr. Kellenberger states “l appreciate your sensitivity to the relation between the manner In which such ICRC documents are distributed and used and the ICRC's ability to maintain the cooperation of parties to armed conflict that Is necessary to the fulfillment of Its humanitarian mandate.”