Deuce Martinez

Deuce is an American intelligence officer.^[1][2] He is notable for his role in interrogating "high-value detainees", including: Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi bin Alshibh, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

CIA career

Deuce had worked as an analyst in the Agency's counter-narcotics unit, prior to al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001. He tracked suspected drug traffickers through receipts and other documents, and their electronic communications.

After he was transferred to the counter-terrorism division after 9-11, he used those same techniques to provide the information for the raids that captured Abu Zubaydah.^[2]

In interviews with the New York Times colleagues of Deuce asserted he was not one of the interrogators who used "waterboarding", or other "extended interrogation techniques".^[2] They were mainly contract workers. The New York Times describes them as "knuckledraggers".

The New York Times reports Deuce was tasked to debrief Abu Zubaydah once he was persuaded to cooperate.^[2] He debriefed Ramzi bin Alshibh, who had not required the use of "extended interrogation techniques", prior to being willing to talk. He debriefed Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after "extended methods" had been used on them.

His interviews with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lasted more than a year.^[2]

Identity

In an editorial, the New York Times reports that they were asked, by the CIA, and a lawyer representing Deuce, to obfuscate his identity in their coverage of him; that they considered this, but ultimately declined.^[1] The editors stated that Deuce had never operated "under cover", and the story's credibility required using his real name.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Editors' Note". New York Times. June 22, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/washington/web22ksmnote.html?ref=washington. Retrieved 2008-06-22.  mirror
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} Scott Shane (June 22, 2008). "Inside a 9/11 Mastermind’s Interrogation". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/washington/22ksm.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2008-06-22.  mirror

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