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October 16, 2015

Out of the Darkness: How two psychologists teamed up with the CIA to devise a torture program and experiment on human beings

Noa Yachot, Out of the Darkness: How two psychologists teamed up with the CIA to devise a torture program and experiment on human beings. American Civil Liberties Union, 16 October 2015. From How the ACLU Came to Publish a Powerful Piece of Investigative Journalism, Longreads, 27 October 2015: “‘Out of the Darkness’ is not an easy story to read. It chronicles how two psychologists who had previously devoted their careers to training US troops to resist abusive interrogation tactics teamed up with the CIA to devise a torture program and experiment on human beings.”

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October 16, 2015 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Ethics, Law, Torture Tagged With: "learned helplessness", "torture memos", abu zubaydah, bruce jessen, cia office of medical services, gul rahman, human rights watch, james mitchell, legal and humanitarian protections of the geneva conventions, martin seligman (psychologist), mohamed ben soud, nuremberg code, senate select committee on intelligence committee study of the central intelligence agency's detention and interrogation program, sere (survival evasion resistance and escape, suleiman abdullah

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