Approved for Release 2017 12 27 006717868 - ClAAct TO 1me NatSeCAc-zt FROM Date SUBJECT EYES ONLY - APPLICATION OF ENHANCED MEASURES TO 1 3 NatSecAct game '- - NatSecAct I W NatSecAct 3 NatSecAct mm m NatSecAct 3 STAFF NatSecAct' TO IMMEDIATEEINFO WW NatseCACt - NatSecAct FROM 1 b 1 NatSecAct SUBJECT EYES ONLY - APPLICATION OF ENHANCED MEASURES TO 1 AL- RAHIM AL- NASHIRI mm NatSeCAct TEXT 1 ACTION REQUIRED PLS SEE BELOW FOR APPROVAL FOR APPLICATION OF ENHANCED MEASURES TO AL-RAHIM CABLE WILL FOLLOW REGARDING TIMING OF ARRIVAL ATS 2 BASED UPON EVALUATION AND HQS ASSESSMENT THAT AL- RAHIM AL- AKA HAS ACCESS TO PERISHABLE THREAT INFORMATION THAT HE WILL NOT WILLINGLY SHARE THIS CABLE CONSTITUTES APPROVALS FOR ENHANCED INTERROGATION Approved for Release 2017 12 27 006717868 Approved-for Release 2017 12 27 C06717868 MEASURES TO BE EMPLOYED AGAINST NASHIRI AS OUTLINED BELOW THIS CABLE WAS COORDINATED WITH 1 - NatSecAct 3 BACKGROUND ON NASHIRI ABD AL-RAHIM A SAUDI NATIONAL LONGTIME MAJOR PERSONALITY AND TERRORIST OPERATIONS PLANNER WAS INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN PLANNING BOTH THE USS COLE AND EAST AFRICA US EMBASSY BOMBINGS HE ALSO WAS INVOLVED IN SEVERAL OTHER THWARTED ATTACKS INCLUDING A 1998 PLOT T0 SMUGGLE SAGGER MISSILES INTO SAUDI ARABIA FROM YEMEN FOR USE IN AN OPERATION AGAINST US MILITARY INTERESTS HE RECRUITED HIS OWN COUSIN TO BE THE SUICIDE DRIVER FOR THE US EMBASSY BOMBING IN TANZANIA MOST RECENTLY NASHIRI HAS BEEN NAMED BY SEVERAL DETAINEES AS THE OPERATIVE RESPONSIBLE FOR PLANNING ATTACKS ON US SHIPS AND OIL TANKERS IN THE GULF AND ELSEWHERE HE IS IN DIRECT CONTACT AND COORDINATING PLANS WITH KHALID SHAYKH MUHAMMED AND KHALLAD BIN 4 EVALUATION OF NASHIRII DURING THE NatseCACt RENDITION SUBJECT WAS ALERT AND APPEARED ORIENTED TO THE SITUATION NO EVIDENCE OF OR SEVERE MENTAL DISORDER WAS OBSERVED HE WAS TEARFUL AND DISTRESSED BUT NOT IN EXCESS TO THE SITUATION HE WAS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND COMPLEX NONVERBAL COMMANDS DURING THE FLIGHT TO THE SUBJECT SLEPT OR REMAINED QUIET APPROXIMATELYS 3 ct HOURS HE MADE ONE REQUEST IN ENGLISH FOR WATER IMMEDIATELY UPON NatSecAct ENTERING THE AIRCRAFT AND DID NOT SPEAK AGAIN HE DISPLAYED No EMOTIONS DURING THE FLIGHT DURING THE SHORT ENOVEMBER 2002 INTERVIEW CONDUCTED To COMPLETE THE MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATION AND ASSESS RESISTANCE POSTURE THE SUBJECT WAS ALERT AND ORIENTED TO THE - ClAAct SITUATION THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF OR SEVERE NatSeCAct SUBJECT APPEARED ARROGANT HIS BEHAVIOR SEEMED COMPOSED ORGANIZED AND GOAL DIRECTED IN THE SENSE THAT HE WITH QUESTIONS MAD-E DEMANDS AND WAS IN CONTROL OF HIS NatSecAct EMOTIONS WHAT DISTRESS HE DISPLAYED APPEARED FEIGNED AND CONTRIVED TO DELAY OR DIVERT THE INTERVIEW THESE OBSERVATIONS ARE CONSISTENT WITH THAT THE be SUBJECT THOUGH DISTRESSED ABOUT HIS CAPTURE DID NOT APPEAR To HAVE SEVERE NatSecAct MENTAL PROBLEMS THEY WERE INCONSISTENT THAT HE MIGHT BREAK AND WAS READY To TALK BASED ON THE ABOVE OBSERVATIONS IT IS THE OPINION OF HVTI THE - SUBJECT IS UNLIKELY To SUFFER FROM A SEVERE MENTAL DISORDER AND IS NO MORE AT RISK FOR SEVERE OR PROLONGED MENTAL HARM FROM ENHANCED INTERROGATION METHODS THAN ANY OTHER CAPTIVE IN A SIMILAR - Approved for Release 2017 12 27 006717868 - Approved for Release 2017 12 27 006717868 ClAAct - 5 REVIEWED REF MENTAL STATUS EXAM INFORMATION AND BASED ON THE DATA PRESENTED THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ENDURE ALL THE ENHANCED INTERROGATION MEASURES-PROPOSED REF THERE IS ALSO NO INDICATION THAT ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES WOULD CAUSE AL-NASHIRI SEVERE PROFOUND OR PERMANENT HARM 6 JUSTIFICATION FOR APPLICATION OF ENHANCED WE HAVE RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS DETAINEES ON NASHIRI AND HIS PENDING OPERATIONS 1 NatSecAct IN ADDITION WE STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT TAWFIQ MID-1WD ATTASHH AKA WAS JOINTLY COORDINATING HIS ACTIVITIES WITH NASHIRI AS THEY WERE BOTH ORCHESTRATORS IN THE U S S COLE AND EAST AFRICA BOMBINGS ATTACKS WE HAVE SO FAR UNCOVERED PLOTS TO SINK SHIPS IN THE STRAITS 0F HORMUZ 7 NatSecAct BASED UPON POSITION IN THE HIERARCHY HIS TRAINING AT CAMPS WHICH INCLUDES COUNTER-INTERROGATION SEE PARA 6 TECHNIQUES AND HIS INTENT AMERICANS WE Do NOT BELIEVE NASHIRI WILL BE WILLING TO VOLUNTEER INFORMATION TO INTERROGATORS WE THEREFORE BELIEVE THAT ENHANCED MEASURES MUST BE EMPLOYED TO LEARN WHAT NASHIRI PLANNED OPERATIONS ARE IMMINENT IN ORDER To SAVE LIVES 7 ASSESSMENT OF LIKELY RESISTANCE TO IT IS HVTI THAT THE SUBJECT IS A SOPHISTICATED RESISTER AND IS LIKELY TO HAVE SOME BACKGROUND IN RESISTANCE TO INTERROGATION TRAINING EITHER THROUGH SELF STUDY OR FORMAL TRAINING NatSecAct Approved for Release 201 7 12 27 C06717868 1 Approved forRelease 2017 12 27 006717868 NatSecAct - 1 mm NatSecAct DURING THE SHORTEI NOVEMBER 2002 - INTERVIEW CONDUCTED a a CI Ct BY HVIT I AND TRANSLATOR NatseCACt THE RESISTANCE BOSTURE WAS CHARACTERIZED BY AN ORGANIZED AND CONCERTED EFFORT TO STALL DELAY AND DISRUPT THE INTERVIEW AS NOTED ABOVE HE ANSWERED QUESTIONS WITH QUESTIONSR MADE DEMANDS AND FEIGNED AN INABILITY TO COMPREHEND BASED ON HIS PHYSICAL CONDITION HIS COMPOSURE MADE HIM APPEAR UNCONCERNED ABOUT - NatSeCAct THE SITUATION HE WAS IN ONE POSSIBILITY IS THAT THE OBTAINED ON THE PLANE RIDE To HELPED HIM RECONSTITUTE THE INTERVIEW WAS KEPT SHORT SO THAT HE COULD NOT GET COMFORTABLE WITH THE AND SO AS NOT TO REINFORCE HIS USE OF RESISTANCE TECHNIQUES IN A SETTING WHERE OUR LIMITED WE RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWING INITIAL INTERROGATION PLAN 1 3 3 NatSeOAct 5 b b b 8 APPROVAL FOR ENHANCED MEASURES IS THEREFORE GRANTED TO IMMEDIATELY EMPLOY ENHANCED MEASURES AS NECESSARY TO EXTRACT THIS INFORMATION BASE HAS AT ITS DISPOSAL Two OF THE MOST QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED TRAINED HVTI WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY USED THESE MEASURES ABU EUBAYDAH BASE ALSO HAS THE REQUISITE MEDICAL PERSONNEL ON HAND TO MONITOR THE PHYSICAL RESPONSES AND TO INTERVENE AS NECESSARY SHOULD ANY EMERGENCIES ARISE 1 3 3 NatSecAct Approved for Release 2017 12 27 006717868 Approved for Release 2017 12 27 006717868 ClAAct NatSeCAct END OF MESSAGE 7 Approved for Release 2017 12 27 C06717868 - 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