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James Elmer Mitchell (born c. 1952) is a psychologist and former member of the United States Air Force. In 2002, after his retirement from the military, his company Mitchell Jessen and Associates received $81 million as part of its contract from the CIA to develop enhanced interrogation techniques.〔 These techniques have been extremely controversial and have been called torture. == Military career == Mitchell joined the Air Force in 1975 and was first stationed in Alaska, learning to disarm unexploded ordnance. He was also a hostage negotiator at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.〔 He left the military in the early 1980s to earn a master's degree in psychology at the University of Alaska.〔 He then received a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of South Florida in 1986. His thesis compared diet and exercise in controlling hypertension. Mitchell returned to the Air Force and in 1988 became the chief of psychology at the Air Force survival school at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington. He succeeded Bruce Jessen, who had moved to an advanced school of survival training at the base.〔 Mitchell supervised the trainers who role-played as enemy interrogators for military personnel going through Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training. In 1996, Mitchell was the psychologist for a unit in the Air Force Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in mid 2001. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Elmer Mitchell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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