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The fifteen-minute call
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 1 recorded interview · Last updated
How Marty Gottesfeld, held in the communications management unit at Terre Haute, allocated the single fifteen-minute telephone call he was permitted each week: an email to his wife, his two attorneys and John Kiriakou, with the call going to whoever answered first.
Gottesfeld was allowed a single fifteen-minute telephone call each week. What he did with it, in Kiriakou’s description, was send an email in advance to his wife, his two attorneys and Kiriakou himself, and whoever answered first was the person he talked to.[1]
The unit itself has a history Kiriakou finds pointed. The number on his caller display came from the federal prison at Terre Haute, and the CMU there occupies the old death row: a new one was built and the original converted.[1]
What he wanted to talk about
The two men had corresponded for years before ever speaking, and Kiriakou describes the shock of seeing the number come up.[1] He kept asking the obvious questions, are you all right, what can I send you, do you need books, do you need magazines, how is your health, and Gottesfeld did not want to discuss any of it. He wanted a conversation with somebody about normal daily life: who won the playoff game, what Kiriakou was reading.[2]
Kiriakou draws the general conclusion from the particular: human beings are social animals, and cutting a person off from that is the torture.[2] He notes separately that Gottesfeld was still fighting as hard at that point as at the very beginning.[3]
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.
