Talk:Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre
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"Conversations among Nazi prisoners were secretly recorded by the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (UK), circulated to various intelligence agencies, including MI19 at the War Office, and then sent to Washington."
- Jail small talk reveals Holocaust guilt The Observer May 20, 2001
Kensington Palace Gardens is one of the most exclusive, and expensive, addresses in the world: its stately row of 160-year-old mansions, built on land owned by the crown, is home to ambassadors, billionaires and princes. One property bought by the Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal... Down the road, No 6, ...while next door, No 7, is the London home of the Sultan of Brunei. ...No 8 ...
Between July 1940 and September 1948, however, these three magnificent houses were home to one of the country's most secret military establishments: the London office of the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, known colloquially as the London Cage.
The London Cage was run by MI19, the section of the War Office responsible for gleaning information from enemy prisoners of war...
The London Cage was used partly as a torture centre, inside which large numbers of German officers and soldiers were subjected to systematic ill-treatment. In total 3,573 men passed through the Cage, and more than 1,000 were persuaded to give statements about war crimes.
- The secrets of the London Cage The Guardian November 12, 2005
"CSDIC, a division of the War Office, operated interrogation centres around the world, including one known as the London Cage, located in one of London's most exclusive neighbourhoods. Official documents discovered last month at the National Archives at Kew, south-west London, show that the London Cage was a secret torture centre where German prisoners who had been concealed from the Red Cross were beaten, ..."
"As horrific as conditions were at the London Cage, Bad Nenndorf was far worse. Last week, Foreign Office files which have remained closed for almost 60 years were opened after a request by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act."
- The interrogation camp that turned prisoners into living skeletons (Britain's secret torture centre) The Guardian December 17, 2005
"For almost 60 years, the evidence of Britain's clandestine torture programme in postwar Germany has lain hidden in the government's files..."
"As one minister of the day wrote, as few people as possible should be aware that British authorities had treated prisoners "in a manner reminiscent of the German concentration camps."
"The pictures show suspected communists who were tortured in an attempt to gather information about Soviet military intentions and intelligence methods at a time when some British officials were convinced that a third world war was only months away."
