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23 April 2009

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=18203 Report: Spokane psychologist key in expanding torture Karen Dorn Steele Staff writer December 12, 2008 [Excerpts] The Joint Personnel Recovery Agency’s “White Bluff” facility, near Airway Heights, is involved in using satellites to track military and other government employees and contractors missing in foreign countries. JPRA also trains U.S. coalition forces and oversees SERE training at Fairchild Air Force Base and the Pentagon's four other survival schools, according to senior military officials. This photo was taken from unrestricted airspace. (FILE The Spokesman-Review) Dr. Bruce Jessen, a senior military psychologist with offices in Spokane, had a key role in expanding the controversial use of torture against enemy combatants, according to a report released Thursday by U.S. Sens. Carl Levin and John McCain, ranking members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The torture policy – approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration over objections of many military officials – allowed the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency where Jessen worked to operate “outside its charter” teaching coercive techniques used at Guantanamo and other detainee facilities, the committee’s executive summary says. JPRA efforts in support of “offensive” interrogation operations “went beyond the agency’s knowledge and expertise (and) contributed to detainee abuse,” the report says. Many details of the complete report are still classified and are undergoing a publication review.

http://www.jpra.jfcom.mil/site_public/directorates/pra/pra.htm Personnel Recovery Academy Mission Statement: Provide Code of Conduct/SERE training and subject matter expertise for the DoD, including all related training in the U.S. Government, enabling isolated persons to return with honor. The Joint Personnel Recovery Agency's PRA has a long history of support to the Personnel Recovery mission. From Cold War origins in 1961 at Stead Air Force Base, Nevada following the shoot down of Francis Gary Power's U-2 over the Soviet Union, the Academy has expanded its programs to meet today's emerging threat to our Armed Forces. Serving under the Joint Forces Command, the Academy is proud to provide training to the Service men and women of America. http://www.jpra.jfcom.mil/site_public/directorates/hf/hf.htm HF (Human Factors) Mission Statement: The JPRA Human Factors (HF) Directorate supports USJFCOM’s DoD Executive Agent responsibilities in the areas of Isolated Personnel Support and Reintegration, SERE Training Oversight, and Interagency / International Partnerships. The directorate provides expert psychological and medical consultation, reintegration, research and training support across the spectrum of personnel recovery (PR) enabling JFCOM and JPRA to fully support COCOMs, Services, and other governmental agencies in policy development, training, planning and executing personnel recovery operations. http://www.js.pentagon.mil/dpmo/personnel_recovery/PRSummer05.pdf Following a very successful Worldwide Personnel Recovery Conference last autumn, USJFCOM and DPMO are teaming up again to cosponsor the 2005 Personnel Recovery Warfighter’s Conference, at the Personnel Recovery Academy, White Bluff Facility, Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington.

Personnel Recovery Academy SERE Training Eyeball

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This appears to be a later plan than those above and is similar to the Google Street views. Note the entrance turn-in at the center bottom of the image and an entrance at the lower right which are lacking in the photos above. Mapquest.com

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