“While the CIA has represented in public and classified settings that it detained “fewer than one hundred” individuals, the Committee’s review of CIA records indicates that the total number of CIA detainees was at least 119. Internal CIA documents indicate that inadequate record keeping made it impossible for the CIA to determine how many individuals it had detained.” (SSCI Torture Report, p.14)
“While the CIA acknowledged to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) in February 2006 that it had wrongly detained five individuals throughout the course of its detention program, a review of CIA records indicates that at least 21 additional individuals, or a total of 26 of the 119 (22 percent) CIA detainees identified in this Study, did not meet the MON standard for detention. (footnote 32)” (SSCI Torture Report, p.15-16)
(footnote 32) They include Abu Hudhaifa, who was subjected to ice water baths and 66 hours of standing sleep deprivation before being released because the CIA discovered he was likely not the person he was believed to be
(W ASHINGTON 51303 Muhammad Khan, who, like Zarmein, was among detainees about whom the CIA acknowledged knowing "very little"
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Naz^ir Ali, an “intellectually challenged” individual whose taped crying was used as leverage against his family member
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two individuals —Mohammad al-Shomaila and Salah Nasir Salim Ali—on whom derogatory information was “speculative” (email from: [REDACTED]Uo: [REDACTEDl, 1REDACTED], and [REDACTED]; subjety: Backgrounders; date: April 19, 2006;|^^^^^| 17411 ALEC
|; undated document titled. “Talking Points for HPSCI about Former CIA Detainees”);
two individuals who were discovered to be foreign government sources prior to being rendered to CIA custody, and later determined to be former CIA
2185 ([REDACTED]); ALEC| ([REDACTED]); HEADQUARTERS B||H(IrS)ACTED])); seven individuals thought to be travelling to Iraq to join al-Qa’ida who were detained based on claims that were "thin but cannot be ignore£^en^^ to: [REDACTED|; cc: [REDACTED], [REDACTED],
[REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED]; subject: Request Chief/CTC Approval to Apprehend and Detain Individuals Departing Imminently for Iraq to Fight Against US Forces; date: September 16, 2003);
and Bismullah, who was mistakenly arrested and later released with $ H and told not to speak about his experience 46620
For example, the Committee did not include among the 26 individuals wrongfully detained: Dr. Hikmat Nafi Shaukat, even though it was determined that he was not involved in CBRN efforts and his involvement with al-QaMda members was limited to perst)nal relationships with former neighbors
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detainees); Arsala Khan, who suffered disturbing hallucinations after 56 hours of standing sleep deprivation, after which the CIA determined thath^|doefuiot^^ the subject involved in… cuiTent plans or activities against l^M^e^<>;ineU^cilities" (^^^IHIHlliiiHH (20I006Z OCT 03); HEADQUARTERS UtM (lll^mmillllllll); and
Janat Gul, who also suffered “frightful” hallucinations following sleep deprivation and about whom the chief of the detention facility wrote, “[t]here simply is no ‘smoking gun’ that we can refer to that would justify our continued holding of [Janat Gul] at a site such as [DETENTION SITE BLACK]”
(Sorry for the messy cut/paste, but that is how it came from the PDF and I don’t have time to clean it up. Can be found on page 16)
