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Soufan recognized it as a kind of
cut-and-paste terrorist pamphlet but the CIA imagined
it might be a window into the Islamist mind. So, they hired a psychologist named
James Mitchell to analyze it. He and his colleague, Bruce Jessen concluded that the manual
was a diabolical guide to play mind games on interrogators
which could only be overcome by harsh physical
and psychological countermeasures. Even though those techniques were milder than the torture
expected by the manual the message found favor
at the agency. Mitchell, who had no experience
interrogating anyone was the only candidate
considered for the job of inventing the CIA's
new system of interrogation. There was no blue-ribbon commission
cut-and-paste terrorist pamphlet but the CIA imagined
it might be a window into the Islamist mind. So, they hired a psychologist named
James Mitchell to analyze it. He and his colleague, Bruce Jessen concluded that the manual
was a diabolical guide to play mind games on interrogators
which could only be overcome by harsh physical
and psychological countermeasures. Even though those techniques were milder than the torture
expected by the manual the message found favor
at the agency. Mitchell, who had no experience
interrogating anyone was the only candidate
considered for the job of inventing the CIA's
new system of interrogation. There was no blue-ribbon commission
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Soufan recognized it as a kind of
cut-and-paste terrorist pamphlet
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but the CIA imagined
it might be a window
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into the Islamist mind.
00:00:09.028 --> 00:00:12.008
So, they hired a psychologist named
James Mitchell to analyze it.
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He and his colleague, Bruce Jessen
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concluded that the manual
was a diabolical guide
00:00:18.024 --> 00:00:21.072
to play mind games on interrogators
which could only be overcome
00:00:21.008 --> 00:00:24.056
by harsh physical
and psychological countermeasures.
00:00:25.064 --> 00:00:26.084
Even though those techniques
00:00:26.092 --> 00:00:29.064
were milder than the torture
expected by the manual
00:00:29.072 --> 00:00:31.092
the message found favor
at the agency.
00:00:32.032 --> 00:00:35.044
Mitchell, who had no experience
interrogating anyone
00:00:35.052 --> 00:00:37.096
was the only candidate
considered for the job
00:00:38.999 --> 00:00:41.002
of inventing the CIA's
new system of interrogation.
00:00:42.052 --> 00:00:44.016
There was no blue-ribbon commission.
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Movie Summary
Follows the story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA's program, later identified as torture by those outside the agency.
