Important confidential documents reveal how CIA interrogators using the “truth serum”!
What we see in hollywood movies is in fact in use!
That’s right – CIA interrogators sought a “truth serum” to use to extract confessions from Al Qaeda detainees as well as drowning techniques and other torture methods after the 9/11, attacks, classified documents showed on Tuesday.
In a desperate attempt to extract information about potential future attacks from Abu Zubaydah, who is believed to have helped plot the 9/11 attacks, investigators have returned to decades of tests conducted by the agency in the 1950s on drugs that affect brain function such as hallucinogenic LSD as well as to Russian tests supposedly on the truth sores in the eighties of the last century.
In the project called Project Medicines, the CIA studied barbiturates such as sodium salts and simulated psychotropic drugs.
In particular, doctors took care of a drug called Versed or Midazolam, a sedative that can cause memory loss as long as it continues.
The idea came to the attention of officials of the medical services office of the intelligence agency amid concern that Abu Zubaydah “showed remarkable reluctance” despite being subjected to harsh treatment including sleep deprivation and forced to remain in stressful situations.
“The intensity and duration of interrogation (Abu Zubaydah) surprised the Medical Services Office and prompted further studies to appear to be a lighter alternative to interrogations using drugs”, the report said.
But they found no historical evidence to prove that the drugs could make the person who was eating them disclosing information.
“There is no magic mixture likes the common sense of truth”, said an intelligence review in 1961.
“It seems that anyone capable of carrying out regular intensive interrogations can resist narcotic drugs”, the report said.
However, investigators considered that drugs could trick the prisoner and make him believe he could withstand.
“Such drugs, although widely considered to be an unreliable source of truth, are thought to be useful as an excuse to allow a person to be more revealing and save face at the same time”, the investigators said.
But they have faced a ban on research on detainees, imposed after the agency’s McClurtra program in the 1950s, in which experiments on psychotropic drugs were performed on people.
The oldest man who was given hallucinogenic LSD in a secret program, later on suicide.
After bypassing legal restrictions to obtain permission to use torture techniques against prisoners, the CIA’s legal office decided “not to raise another problem with the Ministry of Justice”, according to the report.
The 90-page report on the work of the Medical Services Bureau following the interrogations of the September 11 attacks was published after a judicial battle led by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The whole report shows how doctors played an important part in the torture program and helped to legislate it, the association said.
“One of the most important lessons of the CIA’s torture program is the way in which each institution and its associated person was corrupted”, said Union Lawyer Dror Laddin.
