Psychologists’ Firm Got $81 Million for CIA Work, Report Finds
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The CIA paid $81 million to a company founded by two psychologists who had no knowledge of al-Qaeda to develop and run an agency program for interrogating terrorism suspects, according to a Senate report.
The psychologists, who formed a company in 2005 that was hired by the CIA through mid-2009, had no prior experience as interrogators or background in counterterrorism, according to the Senate report. They interrogated some of the CIA’s most significant detainees, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, according to the Senate intelligence committee report.