Henley-Putnam's Intelligence Management Subject Guide

When an academic's original work plants the seed that shapes the thoughts of all academics within a discipline, the work is called a "seminal document." Some of the most influential documents in Intelligence Studies are the reports to Congress on intelligence activities as they continue to shape our country's laws.

Seminal Documents on Interrogations 

• Montesquieu’s De l’esprit des lois 1748 translated to English 1750, Thomas Nugent 
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s (1762) The Social Contract as translated by Jonathon Bennett, 2017 
• Lieber Code was prepared by Francis Lieber and disseminated as General Order #100 by President Lincoln 24 April 1863
• UN Chapter IV Human Rights Title 1. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes of Genocide. Paris, 9 Dec 1948.
• The Convention Against Torture, Common Article 3 
• UN Chapter IV Human Rights Title 9: Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. New York, 10 Dec 1984

o   Amendments to articles 17 (7) and 18 (5) of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. New York, 8 September 1992

o   Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. New York, 18 December 2002

• KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation.  CIA.  (1963, June). KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation. Washington, DC: Author
• Department of the Army. (2006). Human intelligence collector operations FM 2-22.3 (FM 34-52).