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Alfred W. McCoy explains the conditions that enable torture and the mechanisms that sustain impunity, with attention to psychological torture. The book traces the involvement of U.S. officials, the CIA, and scientists in developing coercive interrogation from the 1950s onward, linking Cold War practices to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.","Torture and Impunity  \nCritical Human Rights  \nSeries Editors  \nSteve J . Stern 􀀂 Scott Straus  \nBooks in the series Critical Human Rights emphasize research that opens new ways to think about and understand human rights. The series values in particular empirically grounded and intellectually open research that eschews simplified accounts of human rights events and processes.  \nTorture, the application of extreme pain and isolation to destroy the integrity of the person, is a classic human rights issue. The method is physically brutal, but the point is often psychological—dread, degradation, and inner shattering. In this book Alfred W. McCoy reveals the conditions that give rise to torture and the mechanisms that permit impunity. He breaks new ground by analyzing psychological torture as such; by tracing the role ofU.S. officials, the CIA, and scientists in its development from the 1950s to the present; and by probing its voyeuristic, erotic, and empowering impacts on perpetrators and observers. The result is a unique historical critique of torture and the culture of impunity that allowed such systematic abuse in the U.S. and abroad, from the Cold War through Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.  \nTorture and Impunity  \nThe U .S . Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation  \nAlfred W. McCoy  \nThe University of Wisconsin Press  \nThe University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 [uwpress.wisc.edu](uwpress.wisc.edu)  \n3 Henrietta Street  \nLondon WCE 8LU, England [eurospanbookstore.com](eurospanbookstore.com)  \nCopyright © 2012  \nThe Board of Regents ofthe University of Wisconsin System  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCoy, Alfred W.  \nTorture and impunity: the U.S. doctrine of coercive interrogation / Alfred W. McCoy.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Critical human rights)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-0-299-28854-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-299-28853-2 (e-book)  \n1. Torture—United States—History. 2. Torture—Government policy—United States. 3. Military interrogation—United States—History. 4. Impunity—United States. 5. United States. Central Intelligence Agency. I. Title. II. Series: Critical human rights.  \nHV8599.U6M34 2012  \n364.6'7—dc23 2011043916  \nFor Maria Elena Ang and the many victims of torture, whose courageous testimony will one day end this inhumane practice.  \nContents  \nList of Illustrations ix  \nAcknowledgments xi  \nAbbreviations xvii  \nIntroduction 3  \n1. The CIA’s Pursuit of Psychological Torture 16  \n2. Science in Dachau’s Shadow 53  \n3. Torture in the Crucible of Counterinsurgency 85  \n4. Theater State of Terror 114  \n5. The Seduction of Psychological Torture 151  \n6. The Outcast of Camp Echo 188  \n7. 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