Project on Ethics and Art in Testimony (PEAT)

APA PENS Collection

Unofficial Records of
The American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on
Psychological Ethics and National Security

(APA PENS Task Force, June 2005)

Jean Maria Arrigo
August 2007

Intelligence Ethics Collection
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
  1. Rationale for Deposit of the Records Jean Maria Arrigo (JMA)

  2. APA PENS Task Force mandate from the APA Board of Directors, February 16 & 17, 2005

  3. Biographical Statements of Task Force Members

  4. Arrangements for June 24-26, 2005, meeting at APA headquarters in Washington, DC

    1. Task Force invitation to JMA from APA President Ronald Levant, April 1, 2005

    2. Preparatory letter to Task Force members from Steve Behnke, Director, APA Ethics Office, April 19, 2005

    3. APA Travel Guidelines for Members

  5. Preliminary Readings

    1. Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, August 21, 2002

    2. List of Readings—APA Task Force on Ethics and National Security (table of contents from book of photocopied papers sent to members)

  6. APA PENS Task Force Meeting, June 24-26, 2005, Washington, DC, from the perspective of JMA

    1. Miscellaneous reference materials distributed at meeting by participants (subset saved by JMA), including unpublished draft of: Banks, L. Morgan (2005). Providing psychological support for interrogations:  Chapter 1: Purpose of psychological support to interrogation and detainee operations; Chapter 2: The ethics of psychological support to interrogation. 

    2. Transcription of handwritten notes, with photocopies of the original notes

    3. Debriefing of JMA after APA PENS Task Force Meeting by John Crigler, June 26, 2005, Irvine, CA (90-minute audiotape and transcript)

  7. APA PENS Task Force Report

    1. First draft of PENS report, June 24, 2005

    2. Second draft of PENS report, June 25, 2005

    3. Third draft of PENS report, June 26, 2005

    4. Fourth draft of PENS report, June 26, 2005

    5. Final Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics and National Security

  8. Task Force Listserv Correspondence posted at ProPublica on May 8, 2009
Records of the APA PENS Debate
  1. Further correspondence between PENS Taskforce Chair Olivia Moorehead-Slaughter and Jean Maria Arrigo, December 2006 - April 2007 (Restricted)

  2. Counterintelligence Perspectives on the APA PENS Task Force

    1. David Debatto. (2007, June 10). A counterintelligence perspective on the APA PENS Task Force. Interview conducted by J.M. Arrigo.

    2. Lawrence Rockwood. (2007, July 17). A counterintelligence perspective on the APA PENS Task Force. Interview conducted by J.M. Arrigo