Doc 0000149551
CIA
This declassified CIA document, titled "Interrogation Techniques," requests information on general and technical interrogation methods used by security police and intelligence services worldwide.
This is one record. The archive holds the rest — ask it anything across the MKUltra files and every answer is cited to the page.
Ask the archive about this →"' -- : ;~f..~--- . :~; "-i• ··.a-. - ... CO[T'f COPY H- r3/:3 '-------------------- TO ALL ·cHEFS ., . ; ., SUBJECT:_ :- 1 Interrogation Tachnique s ... ., ~ ' -.. ... 1. This Headquarters is interested in collecting on a continuing 1- basis the .following types of information on interrot;ation (or intervie-11) techniq1-e s us~y security police organ i zati"n::;, police departnents, ~once :ervices throughout the world, with enphasis methods:. · · ·, .·,) . <' . a. ::'.;.General Interro13:ation: Routine interrorration methods, both :_ }. ; t· ... ,. ~ . i •• · ;\". . ': .: . ·\:t formal and infernal, utilizint; non-technical procedures to .. 1.' • ·:·· .\·::t·-· obtain the de::;ired information. , I ,1 ... ;: b. Technical Aid::; to Interrogation:· (1) ·.: Physic~l:· Vario11s methods of physical persuasion utilized to elici~ information from an uncooperative individual, ·' .. ,' ' \~. . ,-. .. · "''" ·_ ... ·,' :',. .. 'I ·, ;: i ',. :-. ... ' . -~ . ~-- . ·" ...
The provided image is a header page for a document from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents. Visually, the page features a stylized illustration of a bank vault door on the left side, rendered in shades of gray, silver, and blue. The right side of the page contains text indicating the document's origin and nature, with the title "THE BLACK VAULT" prominently displayed in white, stylized lettering against a dark background with a blue glow. Below the title, the text explains that the document is from the MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection and provides a URL: "http://mkultra.theblackvault.com". There are no photographs, handwritten annotations, stamps, forms, diagrams, tables, redactions, or visual evidence of experimental procedures.
The document appears to be a declassified CIA memo. The original text is machine-printed and discusses "Interrogation Techniques." There are several handwritten annotations, including a heading "A/B 6, 32/3" and the word "Rescinded" with an underline, suggesting the memo's status has changed. Redacted portions are visible as blacked-out areas, most notably on the first page where "COPY" is written above some of them. The bottom right corner has a handwritten initial "F".
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