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The use of recorded music played on indefinite loop as a coercive interrogation technique. Per John Kiriakou, the CIA's post-9/11 rotation ran to the Bee Gees and the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song, and the practice was not an invention of the war on terror — he places its use throughout the Vietnam War.
Music as torture is the playing of recorded music on indefinite loop as a coercive technique, which John Kiriakou describes as long-standing CIA practice rather than a post-September 11 innovation. Asked whether the agency had ever considered using music on prisoners, his answer was that it had already been done for decades: “they did that all through the Vietnam War.”[1]
The two recordings he names from the later program are the Bee Gees and the theme song from SpongeBob SquarePants, both played on loop.[2] His account of why the technique works does not depend on the music being unpleasant. Told that the SpongeBob theme is a good song, Kiriakou agreed that he liked it too, and located the damage in the count rather than the material — “but after you hear it 10,000 times, you start to…”[2]
Music does not appear among the named techniques of the formal enhanced interrogation program, and Kiriakou discusses it in the same register as the cold cell — practices applied in the field without the Justice Department cover that waterboarding received.[3][2]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
