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UNCLASSIFIED specific requests for additional information on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. Internal CIA emails include discussion of how the CIA could "get… off the hook on the cheap" regarding Chairman Graham's requests for additional information. In the end, CIA officials simply did not respond to Graham's requests prior to his departure from the Committee in January 2003.


 * C. Interrogation in Country and the January 2003 Guidelines


 * 1. The CIA Establishes DETENTION SITE COBALT, Places Inexperienced First-Tour Officer in Charge

(TS////NF) Plans for a specialized CIA detention facility in Country began in April 2002, with the intention that it would be "totally under []/Station Control." On June 6, 2002, CIA Headquarters approved more than $200,000 for the construction of the facility, identified in this summary as "DETENTION SITE COBALT." In a 2003 interview with the CIA Office of Inspector General, Associate Deputy Director for Operations described his views of this facility and "stated that [DETENTION SITE COBALT] was opened because there needed to be a detention site in [Country ] for those detainees enroute  to [DETENTION SITE GREEN]. It was not a place for the use of EITs."

(TS////NF) DETENTION SITE COBALT, constructed with CIA funding, opened in Country in September 2002. According to CIA records, the windows at DETENTION SITE COBALT were blacked out and detainees were kept in total darkness. The guards monitored detainees using headlamps and loud music was played constantly in the facility. While in their cells, detainees were shackled to the wall and given buckets for human waste. Four of the twenty cells at the facility included a bar across the top of the cell. Later reports describe detainees being shackled to the bar with their hands above their heads, forcing them to stand, and therefore not allowing the detainees to sleep. Page 49 of 499 UNCLASSIFIED