Previous evaluations of “brainwashing”, the MKUltra Program,
and our enhanced interrogation techniques have been based on the unstated
premise that the Korean War confessions were “false”.
The just-released "Report of the Constitution Project’s Task
Force on Detainee Treatment" contains the following statement:
The SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) program
subjected military personnel to harsh conditions to prepare them to resist
torture. The program was developed after the Korean War as a training technique
to teach selected categories of U.S. military personnel, such as pilots, how to
resist coercive treatment (and torture), which was expected to be inflicted on
American prisoners of war in an effort to obtain false confessions of war
crimes and other propaganda-related admissions.
From this and other statements in the report, it is clear
that the Task Force also considered the Korean War confessions to have been
false. What impact this probable misconception has on the report's findings and
recommendations is unclear.
It would be nice if they got this right some day.
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