OPERATIONAL REVIEW OF CIA DETAINEE PROGRAM

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: Documents Related to the Former Detention and Interrogation Program
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 6541530
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2016
• Case Number: F-2015-02400
• Publication Date: May 12, 2004

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IOC-2004-0047
12 May 2004
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations
FROM:
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SUBJECT:
Associate Deputy Director for Operations
Chief, Information Operations Center
Henry A. Crumpton
Chief, National Resources Division
4S/ Operational Review of CIA
Detainee Program
eps./ mission: Per the 3 May 2004 directive from
the ADDO, to provide an informal operational assessment of
the CIA Detainee Program, with particular focus on the
guidelines for detention and interrogation, by 12 May 2004.
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- Briefings from CTC and C/CTC/RDG
and a discussion with three senior CTC
managers who played key roles in running
the CIA Detainee Program.
- Review of the following documents:
1. Guidelines on Confinement and Conditions
for CIA Detainees
2. Presidential Approval
3. Special Review
4. Office of General Counsel Comments
5. IG Memo from DCI
6. 29 July 03 Program Review
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7. Quarterly Reviews
8. HVD Exploitation and Interrogation Program
9. Course Enrollment Forms, Pre-deployment
Forms, and partial reference list
Findings:
1. The CIA Detainee Program is a success, providing
unique and invaluable intelligence at the tactical and
strategic level for the benefit of policy makers, war
fighters, and the CIA's covert action operators. The
Program has prevented terrorist attacks and saved lives.
2. From a purely clandestine operational perspective,
the regulations and procedures for handling detainees are
adequate and clear. Every operational activity has a
margin of error and the Program is no exception; however,
the response to correct any deviation from the structured
Pro ram has been swift, fair, and com lete.
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3. The Directorate of Operations (DO) should not be
in the business of running prisons or "temporary detention
facilities." The DO should focus on its core mission: .
clandestine intelligence operations. Accordingly, the DO
should continue to hunt, capture, and render targets, and
then exploit them for intelligence and ops leads once in
custody. The management of their incarceration and
interrogation, however, should be conducted by
appropriately experienced U.S. law enforcement officers
because that is their charter and they have the training
and experience.
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5. Given the intense interest and controversy
surrounding the detainee issue, we strongly believe the CIA
should as soon as possible provide a comprehensive update
on the Program to the President and the relevant
Congressional Oversight members
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Henry A. Crampton
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