Jerald Phifer, Request for Approval of Counter-Resistance Strategies (2002)
“ The following techniques and other aversive techniques, such as those used in U.S. military interrogation resistance training or by other U.S. government agencies, may be utilized in a carefully coordinated manner to help interrogate exceptionally resistant detainees. Any of these techniques that require more than light grabbing, poking, or pushing, will be administered only by individuals specifically trained in their safe application. (1) The use of scenarios designed to convince the detainee that death or severely painful consequences are imminent for him and/or his family. ”
