Educing Information: Interrogation - National Intelligence University

Saar, E., and Novak, V. (2005). Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier’s
Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo. New York: Penguin Press.
Saar, an army linguist deployed for six months at Guantanamo Bay’s
Camp Delta, shares his experiences of working in both the Joint
Detainee Operations Group (JDOG) and the Joint Intelligence Group
(JIG) from December 2002 to June 2003. With the JDOG, he served as
an Arabic translator on the cell blocks, translating between detainees
and the military police (MP), medics and psych teams. With the JIG,
he supported interrogators from the U.S. Army, civilian intelligence
agencies, and civilian contracting firms. Problems include a loose
command structure, training gaps, morale issues, and intra- and intergroup
hostilities. He describes treatment of the detainees by the MPs,
organization of detainees on the cell blocks, and what happens in the
interrogation room.
Van de Velde, J. R. (2005). Camp Chaos: U.S. Counterterrorism Operations
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence, 18, 538-548.
The author, who had been stationed at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO)
as both a naval intelligence officer and later as a contractor, reviews
the GTMO operation and highlights its shortcomings. While Army
SOUTHCOM is in charge at GTMO, the camp falls victim to the
competing interests of the CIA, the FBI and the DoD. GTMO is
plagued by an ill-defined mission and the lack of standard procedures
for producing and distributing intelligence products. The intelligence
that is gathered is not properly analyzed or viewed in a larger context.
Military interrogators are reservists who spend only 6-8 months at the
camp. They tend to clash with civilian contractors with longer tours of
duty and higher pay.
Zagorin, A., and Duffy, M. (2005). “Inside the Interrogation of Detainee 063.”
Time Magazine, 165, 25, 20 June.
Based on secret interrogation logs, this article details the interrogation
of Guantanamo Bay Detainee 063, Mohammed al-Qahtani, widely
thought to be the 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Interrogation Policies, Practices and Research
Communist Interrogation, Indoctrination and Exploitation of American Military,
and Civilian Prisoners, 84th Congress, 2nd Sess. (1956).
These 1956 U.S. Senate subcommittee hearings delve into Communist
interrogation and indoctrination of U.S. prisoners of war. They provide
a good review of Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps research into
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