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Office of
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Counsel
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Office of the Assistant Attorney General
Office

General

Washington,
Washington,D.C.
DC.20530
20530

July 7,2004
7, 2004

Mr. Scott W. Muller
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Scott:

I am writing to follow up on your discussion last Friday with the Attorney General and
of interrogation techniques on a certain highthe Deputy Attorney General concerning the use of
value detainee.
of the nine
The Deputy Attorney General asked me to emphasize to you that approval of
techniques described in the Memorandum for John Rizzo, Acting General Counsel, Central
Office of
of Legal COlIDSel,
Counsel,
Intelligence Agency, from Jay S. Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, Office
Re: Interrogation
Interrogation of
of al Qaeda Operative (Aug. I,
1, 2002), presupposes that the techniques will
adhere closely to the assumptions and limitations stated in that memorandum.
The Deputy Attorney General also asked me to emphasize that approval of
of the twentyof Defense's April 15, 2003, memorandum was
four interrogation techniques in the Secretary of
of "General Safeguards" set out as an attachment to that memorandum,
conditioned on the set of
cross-referenced descriptions of
of seventeen of
of the twenty-four
twenty-four techniques set forth in
and on the cross-referenced
Army
of
Army Field
Field Manual
Manual 34-54: Intelligence
Intelligence Interrogation
Interrogation (1992). Please ensure that your use of
forth
these techniques follows the "General Safeguards" and the descriptions and conditions set fOlih
in the Field Manual.
Sincerely,

g~GO~
Jack L. Goldsmith III
Assistant Attorney General