Oh, and this isn't much at all compared to what was going on in Algeria at the same time: large-scale torture (on both sides), bombings, summary executions... Fun times. Fortunately, democratic nations can't have "fun" on quite the same scale nowadays, though to be sure, the fellows enjoying US hospitality at Bagram airfield must have gotten their own "fun".
Good enough that it was used as an instruction manual, unfortunately. And several of the torturers would go on to teach various right-wing regimes how to extract information from prisoners.
