# Strawberry Fields

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*The CIA's nickname for a secret black-site annex at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base used for the post-9/11 detention and interrogation program.*

- **Operator:** [Central Intelligence Agency](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia)
- **Location:** Annex of [Guantanamo Bay](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/guantanamo-bay) Naval Base, Cuba
- **Function:** Black site for the post-9/11 detention and interrogation program
- **First publicly disclosed:** December 2014, [Senate Torture Report](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/senate-torture-report)

**Strawberry Fields** is the [Central Intelligence Agency](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia)'s informal name for a secret annex of the [Guantanamo Bay Naval Base](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/guantanamo-bay) used as a black site in the agency's post-September 11 [enhanced interrogation](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/enhanced-interrogation) program. Its existence was first publicly disclosed in the December 2014 [Senate Torture Report](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/senate-torture-report), where it appears alongside the agency's other black sites in Afghanistan, Lithuania, Romania, Poland, and Thailand.[1]

## See also

- [Guantanamo Bay](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/guantanamo-bay)
- [Senate Torture Report](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/senate-torture-report)
- [Enhanced interrogation techniques](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/enhanced-interrogation)
- [Central Intelligence Agency](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia)

## Sources

1. CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou on Torture Report: Investigate & Prosecute Those who Flouted the Law (2015-02-09), at 00:13. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Dos1XxrYM&t=13s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2015-02-09-democracy-now-torture-report/

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