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Biderman's Chart of Coercion

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were cooperating. After extensive interviews with returned POWs, Biderman concluded that there were three major elements behind the Communist interrogators' coercive control: "dependency, debility and dread". Biderman summarized his findings in a chart first published in the paper
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has stated that the Chart of Coercion contains the "universal tools of torture and coercion". In the early 2000s, the chart was used by American interrogators at the
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interrogators based on Biderman's Chart. Documents revealed to Congressional investigators in 2008 revealed interrogation methods at the camp;
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conducted similar research into the same Chinese methods; coining the term "thought reform" (now known as
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reveals more thoroughly its disrespect for truth and the individuals than its resort to these techniques.
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was the first to recognize that the methods were nearly verbatim those contained in Biderman's Chart.
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stated that Biderman’s Chart of Coercion contained the "universal tools of torture and coercion".
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Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions From Air Force Prisoners of War
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Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions From Air Force Prisoners of War
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The Chart of Coercion was used by American interrogators to administer the
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in 1957 to illustrate the methods of Chinese and Korean torture on
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In 2002, US military trainers offered an entire training class to
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Table illustrating torture on American prisoners of the Korean War
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The Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas
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Report on Physical Pressures Training, January 15, 2002
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Biderman's Chart of Coercion has also been applied to
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Several American prisoners of war at a Korean POW camp
Albert Biderman
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Albert Biderman
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The Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
Robert Jay Lifton
brainwashing
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Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Amnesty International
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
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