re: #241 avanti

” I’d like to read the 2007 Vanity Fair article”

Here you go:

vanityfair.com

Rorschach and Awe
America’s coercive interrogation methods were reverse-engineered by two C.I.A. psychologists who had spent their careers training U.S. soldiers to endure Communist-style torture techniques. The spread of these tactics was fueled by a myth about a critical “black site” operation.
by KATHERINE EBAN vf.com EXCLUSIVE July 17, 2007