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A key instrument was sleep deprivation, identified in the OLC memos as providing the foundation for much of the rest – a “baseline” element of interrogation, as opposed to the more “coercive” ones. It was seen as the key to all the others – so much so that the CIA fought hard to keep it as an authorised interrogation method even after all the others were discontinued.