[3] He was involved at the start of the Central Intelligence Agency's Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program of "high-value detainees," including Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Eventually, CIA employees and contractors took over and began the torture of Abu Zubaydah and the FBI agents left.
Mitchell and Jessen created the "enhanced interrogation techniques" program and were present at the black site in Thailand with Martinez when they were used for the first time on Abu Zubaydah.
On January 23, 2012, the Department of Justice charged ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou with providing Martinez's name to the New York Times for the story.
Mr. Martinez, an analyst by training and torturer by trade, was retired and had never served under cover; that is, he had never posed as a diplomat or a businessman while overseas.
[7]These charges were dropped in exchange for Kiriakou's guilty plea to a leak involving a different CIA agent who was undercover.