Psychologist Linked to CIA Interrogations Kayaking in Retirement

James Mitchell, a psychologist who allegedly co-founded a company the CIA paid to run its terror interrogation program, is retired in Florida and spends his free time kayaking, rafting and climbing. And finding his life a little surreal.

The 63-year-old, whose name was first linked by media reports in 2009 to the CIA program, said he can’t confirm or deny whether he had anything to do with the controversial program because of a non-disclosure agreement he signed with the government. U.S. officials, who declined to be named and were familiar with a report released yesterday by Senate Democrats, said Mitchell was involved in interrogating some of the CIA’s most significant detainees, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.