?anittd 0%tatts 5mm SELECT COMMIITEE 0N INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON, DC 20510?6475 May 14, 2019 Mr. Milton Maltz, Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr. Christopher Costa, Executive Director The International Spy Museum PO. Box 23137 Washington, DC 20026 Dear Mr. Maltz and Mr. Costa: We are writing to express our concerns about the International Spy Museum?s exhibit on torture as part of its permanent exhibition space and to recommend inclusion of additional information. We commend the Museum for its efforts to present past Intelligence Community detention and interrogation operations in a balanced way, but we strongly believe the historical accuracy of the exhibit would greatly bene?t from the inclusion of the extensive facts and research set forth in the Executive Summary of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence?s Study on the Central Intelligence Agency?s (CIA) Detention and Interrogation program. Additionally, its inclusion would add to the public?s understanding of what actually occurred and the efficacy, legality, and morality of these techniques, the illegality of which have since been reiterated by federal law. As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence?s report revealed, after reviewing more than 6 million pages of the own records, the use of torture was not an effective intelligence gathering technique, and in fact led to fabricated information. Moreover, we are concerned the museum exhibit does not accurately demonstrate the full extent of the brutality of waterboarding and other measures, which were often used in combination and to extreme levels, including the use of nudity, minimal caloric intake and the use of other torture techniques, including extended sleep deprivation and slamming detainees against a wall. For example, the use of waterboarding on three detainees (which the Agency does not dispute) devolved into what CIA records call a ?series of near drownings? and in one case made a detainee ?completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth.? The exhibit could usefully also include the experience of the US military and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of which have long?standing practices of using rapport-based interrogation methods with subjects. Finally, we believe it would be useful to add a discussion of the recent legal history to the interactive part of the exhibit (which asks the viewer, ?Would you be willing to have the US. government torture suspected terrorists if they may know details about future attacks??). After information about the CIA detention and interrogation was made public, in part through the SSCI Study, the Congress voted to restrict interrogation techniques to those in the Army Field Manual and to mandate access for the International Committee of the Red Cross to detainees held by the US. Government. The Senate vote was an overwhelming 78-21. At the same time, we acknowledge that this is a dif?cult issue and that the exhibit is important to shine a light on complex issues, to include the legal analyses performed by the Department of Justice during the Bush Administration on the legality of interrogation techniques and the dif?culties encountered by the CIA in implementing a program for which it had little experience . or quali?cations. As the current Vice Chair of the Committee and the Chairman during the investigation into CIA detention and interrogation, we remain deeply involved in this highly controversial issue and dark period in our history. We believe the opening of the new International Spy Museum represents a unique opportunity to educate the public on what was a stain on the history of American intelligence, and to make educated choices about future US. policy. We very much look forward to an opportunity to have our staff engage with you on this issue, and believe that the addition of these and other materials would strengthen the exhibit. We would be happy to make our staff available to answer any questions as well as to further efforts to incorporate a possible exhibit on Congressional oversight of the intelligence community. Sincerely, aural-l Mark R. Warner Vice Chairman ianne Feinstein Member