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Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation

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“Psychology’s service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of Nazi doctors, a “Faustian bargain.” In this case, the price paid has been the American Psychological Association’s collective silence, ethical “numbing,” and, over time, historical amnesia. 3 Indeed, Lifton emphasizes that “the Nazis were not the only ones to involve doctors in evil”; in defense of this argument, he cites the Cold War “role of …American physicians and psychologists employed by the Central Intelligence Agency…for unethical medical and psychological experiments involving drugs and mind manipulation.” 4”

Evil Torture Cold War Cia Mind Control Amnesia Human Rights Violations Human Rights Abuse Psychological Manipulation Traumatic Amnesia Faustian Bargain Conspiracy Of Silence Selective Amnesia Unethical Treatment Collective Silence Ethical Violations Nazi Doctors

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“Despite CIA rhetoric that gave Phoenix a sanitized, technical patina, the program soon devolved into an exercise in brutality that produced many casualties and few veriﬁable results.”

Vietnam Cia Vietnam War Phoenix Program

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“Only a year after ratifying the UN Convention against Torture, Clinton thus violated one of its key clauses, indicating that Washington would continue to favor covert operations over compliance with international law.”

Clinton Torture Cia

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