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UNCLASSIFIED the thwarting of the "Dirty Bomb Plot" and the capture of Jose Padilla. However, the chief of the Abu Zubaydah Task Force stated that "AZ's info alone would never have allowed us to find them," while another CIA officer stated that the CIA was already "alert" to the threat posed by Jose Padilla, and that the CIA's "suspicion" was only "enhanced during the debriefings of Abu Zubaydah." Additional information on the "Dirty Bomb Plot" and the capture of Jose Padilla is provided later in this summary.

(TS////NF) During the month of April 2002, which included a period during which Abu Zubaydah was hospitalized, on life support, and unable to speak, the CIA disseminated 39 intelligence reports based on his interrogations. At the end of April 2002, the DETENTION SITE GREEN interrogation team provided CIA Headquarters with three interrogation strategies. CIA Headquarters chose the most coercive interrogation option, which was proposed and supported by CIA contractor SWIGERT. This coercive interrogation option—which included sensory deprivation—was again opposed by the FBI special agents at the detention site. The interrogation proposal was to engage in "only a single-minded, consistent, totally focused questioning of current threat information." Once implemented, this approach failed to produce the information CIA Headquarters believed Abu Zubaydah possessed: threats to the United States and information about al-Qa'ida operatives located in the United States. Nonetheless, Abu Zubaydah continued to provide other intelligence. In May 2002, the CIA disseminated 56 intelligence reports based on the interrogations.

(TS////NF) In early June 2002, the CIA interrogation team recommended that Abu Zubaydah spend several weeks in isolation while the interrogation team members departed the facility "as a means of keeping [Abu Zubaydah] off-balance and to allow the team needed time off for a break and to attend to personal matters ," as well as to discuss "the endgame" of Abu Zubaydah with officers from CIA Headquarters. As a result, from June 18, 2002, through August 4, 2002, Abu Zubaydah spent 47 days in isolation without being Page 30 of 499 UNCLASSIFIED