# questioning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questioning-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/158524
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 2, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questioning-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/158524 "2003-03-02T04:04:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@dp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dp)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questioning-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/158524/1 "2003-03-02T04:04:13Z")
what kind of persuasive techniques are used to get information out of someone who doesn’t want to talk?
\*for those of you who don’t know, KSM is a very high level al Qaeda member, arrested in Pakistan and soon to be turned over to US.
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### Author:  [@mecaenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mecaenas)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questioning-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/158524/2 "2003-03-02T07:23:15Z")
The details about interrogation techniques today would be highly classified. However, in order to give you a point of reference on what has been done in the past, a well documented example is the interrogation techniques (involving drugs, chemicals and hypnosis) used by the CIA in the 1950’s, a project code-named “ARTICHOKE”.
The [National Security Archive](http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/), on the George Washtington Universtiy web site, is just one of the many web sites with details about Project ARTICHOKE.
(I hope I didn’t screw this up, it’s my first post )
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### Author:  [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questioning-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/158524/3 "2003-03-02T08:16:49Z")
Welcome to the boards! Nice first post!
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questioning-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/158524/4 "2003-03-02T08:20:29Z")
Welcome to the boards **mecaenas**!
Interesting site you posted.
On the point of the methods of interrogation being classified - I’d definitely agree. However, here’s a link to [Al Qaeda’s Manual](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jihadmanual.html) where you may reference Chapter 17 - “Interrogation and Investigation.”
They (aQ) seemed to know a bit about the subject. I reckon those captured know quite a bit more now.
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### Author:  [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2003, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questioning-khalid-sheikh-mohammed/158524/5 "2003-03-02T10:15:46Z")
Torture and drugs are not very effective as [this article at Strategy Page outlines.](http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/20020429.asp) The School of Americas manual, KUBARK, was an interrogation manual that was declassified in 1997 [much to the embarrassment](http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/98-12%20WIN/cia&torture.html) of the CIA and Army. [This is an outline](http://jl-site.com/ProPerInc/CIA.html) of the [how to document](http://www.heart7.net/mcf/kubark.htm) that goes into the details of interrogation techniques still in use today.