The CIA's one-and-only official interrogation manual was published in 1963 and has recently been made available online; this softcover edition marks the Agency's redactions and includes the extensive descriptive bibliography of the original. This is not a facsimile but a typeset reference edition. KUBARK contains fascinating analysis on types of interrogatees (and interrogators) and a number of nonviolent (as well as violent) strategems. This is a work of historic importance and a fundamental source document for students of the Cold War.

This manual, the infamous "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation," dated July 1963, is the source of much of the material in the second manual. KUBARK was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency cryptonym for the CIA itself. The cryptonym KUBARK appears in the title of a 1963 CIA document KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation which describes interrogation techniques, including, among other things, "coercive counterintelligence interrogation of r esistant sources." This is the oldest manual, and describes the use of abusive techniques, as exemplified by two references to the use of electric shock, in addition to use of threats and fear, sensory deprivation, and isolation.

This is one of the first declassified manuals released by the CIA, entitled the 'KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation''. KUBARK was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency cryptonym for the CIA itself. The cryptonym KUBARK appears in the title of a 1963 CIA document KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation which describes interrogation techniques, including, among other things, "coercive counterintelligence interrogation of resistant sources". This is the oldest manual, and describes the use of abusive techniques, as exemplified by two references to the use of electric shock, in addition to use of threats and fear, sensory deprivation, and isolation.

The CIA's one-and-only official interrogation manual was published in 1963 and has recently been made available online; this hardcover edition marks the Agency's redactions and includes the extensive descriptive bibliography of the original. This is not a facsimile but a typeset reference edition. KUBARK contains fascinating analysis on types of interrogatees (and interrogators) and a number of nonviolent (as well as violent) strategems. This is a work of historic importance and a fundamental source document for students of the Cold War.

The CIA Document of Human Manipulation: Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual by The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Released by the Freedom of Information Act. This document is a thorough description of how the CIA recommends interrogating a subject. (This is the original document, de-classified and printed "as is").