American Psychology Association has a history of collaborating with the CIA.

So how could the APA have allowed this to happen? The APA collaborated with the government to change psychologists’ ethical guidelines and how they were to be interpreted in 2005. Although the revised guidelines deplored torture, they not only condoned psychologists being present during “enhanced” interrogations, but actually permitted psychologists to render professional guidance in how the interrogations were to be conducted, to issue judgments about the legal permissibility of the activities, and to experiment on the detainees to obtain evidence of the effectiveness of the program. Over an extended period, APA’s Board engaged in a pattern of manipulation and deception in relationship to its elected representatives, its members, and the public regarding the torture issue.

APA IS IN BED WITH THE CIA

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-violent-mind/201505/the-cia-s-torture-consultant-darlings

Psychologists Taught the CIA How to Torture

With no previous evidence of success, they were given the greenlight to use the training techniques on actual detainees. The F.B.I. had used rapport-building techniques to extract vital intelligence from Abu Zubaydah, one of the first detainees in our war on terror. From a hospital bed in Thailand, he disclosed to F.B.I. interrogators that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was actually the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks.

But subsequently, Mitchell showed up in Thailand, and began to oversee the work of breaking down Zubaydah: keeping him in a coffin-shaped box, blasting music at him, locking him in a freezing room. The C.I.A. falsely claimed credit for the intelligence he provided, and, ultimately, the use of the tactics spread like wildfire through C.I.A. and military interrogation sites. In short, Mitchell and Jessen sold the C.I.A. an argument it wanted to hear: namely, that the use of coercive interrogation techniques would produce groundbreaking intelligence and thereby prevent another attack. It was well known within the SERE community that the use of such techniques was better designed to produce false information. There was seemingly no legitimate argument for its utility.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/daily-news/2014/12/psychologists-cia-torture-report