Former APA President tied to CIA torture firm

[tbyg52]

Followers of this blog, or of the role of psychologists in abusive interrogations, will be familiar with the Names of James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, reported by Mark Benjamin, Katherine Eban, and Jane Mayer to be the CIA’s principal torture teachers. Evidently these two psychologists, through CIA contract to their firm Mitchell Jessen & Associates, was key in the translation of SERE techniques into the routine torture utilized in the CIA black sites. Eban further describes how these brutal interrogation techniques were copied at Guantanamo and elsewhere, becoming standard operating procedure for US torturers.

Now the Spokesman Review reports that former American Psychological Association President Joseph Dominic Matarazzo is " one of five 'governing people’ in the Mitchell Jessen firm," and owns a 1% stake in the torture company. Of course Matarazzo denies knowing what the company did, but apparently declined to say what he thought they did.

The evidence increases that many key psychologists were involved in America’s torture regime. Now that reporters are looking, this may be but the first of many revelations.{/div]

More:
http://uruknet.info/?p=m35298&hd=&size=1&l=e

[annabanana]

1. There had better be a bunch of revoked licenses and ruined

careers over this, at the very least....

[AnotherGreenWorld]

2. Unfortunately accountability doesn't exist anymore...

[malaise]

3. Is it Fascism yet? n/t

[rhett o rick]

4. Duh! nm

[formercia]

5. Herr Doktor Mengele

would be proud.

[tbyg52]

6. Oh, if that isn't just like me....

I get one of my rare OP's on the Greatest, and OF COURSE it contains a stupid typo I saw after the editing period!

[Akoto]

7. This is sort of an unrelated remark, but ...

I really have to wonder what sort of person decides to become an entrepreneur, and then thinks 'y'know, instead of selling toys or food or clothes, I'm gonna start me a torture company!'

[flyarm]

8. look they covered up MKULTRA as well and the child abuse through MKULTRA

there are many scum bags involved in many of these CIA opps..and there were many shirnks that screwed mentally with the Kids in the Franklin Cover up...

i had a shrink that lived in my neighborhood...very big homes....who his wife stuttered terribly and she had an eye that got weird..and then her son started stuttering..as it turned out ..ole mr shrink was beating the fuck out of the whole family...he was horribly beating the shit out of all of them and then using cruel and inhumane behaviour...

i guess it happens in all walks of life..but i didn't expect to hear about this from a very sucesssful shrink...

but all i have read about MKULTRA and those who have tried to be deprogrammed were up against the American Psychological Association and their connections with high powered congress people and the CIA..and those kids and adults have been double victims..one of the mind control Psy-opps..and then the People that were supposed to help them in the mental health care profession...

makes one sick to your stomach!!

fly

[fooj]

10. Know your BFEE.

[KT2000]

9. The beauty of privatization

throw enough money around and bushco can find anyone to do anything they want.

[defendandprotect]

11. Read that at least one psychiatrist/doctor was tortured to force him to . . . .

do something vile -- I can't recall if it was to give info or to give medication that was harmful --
something I read recently -- and it went back as far as the CIA like 1954, if I remember this

correctly???

So -- evidently, this intimidation -- has been going on a long time.