A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

The book written by Alfred McCoy (2006) entitled A Question of Torture CIA Interrogation, from the Cold war to the War on Terror speaks of CIAs process of developing different forms of pain through practice of sensory deprivation and self-inflicted pain.These be done by means of isolation, hooding, manipulation of time, or by means of hours of standing, which was practiced by the U.S. CIA in Vietnam, in Iran, in Central America, and in Southeast Asia. This, harmonise to McCoy (2006), is not so much a material torture merely a mental one that, if not improved or reassessed scrupulously, could repair and damage Americas good reputation and respectable world-wide standing.Main BodyMcCoy (2006) opened his book with the scene by CBS Television of the Abu Ghraib prison that showed Iraqis naked, hooded, and deform in humiliating positions while U.S. soldiers stood over them, smiling (p.5). According to McCoy (2006),These photos are not, in fact, snapshots of simple sadism or a bre akdown in forces discipline but CIA torture methods that have metastasized standardised an undetected cancer in spite of appearance the U.S. intelligence community over the ago half century. (p.5)With its origin date back to more than 50 years ago during the Cold War, this fiber of scenes and incidents promoted political scandals and controversies that reached even to the Bushs administration of the interrogation policy.From the 1950 to 1962, CIAs experiments on the best type of torture landed on psychological torture, or what was in like manner called as the no-touch type of torture. The two new methods that were formulate was the use of sensory disorientation and self-inflicted pain that made the victim finger responsible for their suffering and thus capitulate more readily to their torturers (McCoy, 2006, p.8).As also indicated, The fusion of these two techniques, sensory disorientation and self-inflicted pain, creates a synergy of physical and psychological trauma whose sum is a hammer-blow to the fundamentals of personal individuality (p.8). After the year 1963, the no-touch method of torture included methods of unimaginable cruelties in the form of physical as well as sexual harassments, such as the scenes at Abu Ghraib.The use of mind control by the CIA propagates barbarous torture, which leads to political scandal and ruin. CIAs basic purpose, of course, is for defense against foreign threats. However, for the past 50 years, this type of torture of the Americas CIA reflected political and administrative wreck that tended to worsen as each decade passed.From the Phoenix broadcast in Vietnam in the early 60s, immorality appears to be the basic mannequin of the American agenda of foreign defense and protection. There were already incidents like these back in the 1960s and to witness it alive and kicking until the twenty-first century is a huge sign that something wrong has been going on with Americas method of extricating criminals.