The daily reported that military trainers at Guantanamo in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart created from a 1957 Air Force study on Communist Chinese methods.

The harsh questioning techniques were used by the Chinese to obtain confessions from American prisoners, including many false ones, the daily reported.

The chart, made public at a June 17 US Senate hearing, detailed the effects of "coercive management techniques" such as "sleep deprivation," "prolonged constraint," and "exposure."

"These were techniques to get false confessions," US Senator Carl Levin was quoted as saying in the Times.

"People say we need intelligence, and we do. But we don't need false intelligence," he said.

US use of the recycled chart has bolstered suspicions that interrogation methods long considered by Washington to be torture have been used during interrogations at Guantanamo.

Some of the American prisoners returning from North Korea were filmed by their Chinese interrogators confessing to germ warfare and other atrocities.

Some of the torture practices involved forcing US prisoners to stand "for exceedingly long periods," sometimes in conditions of "extreme cold," according to the study.

The Times reported that some of the methods were used against a small number of prisoners held at Guantanamo before 2005, when Congress banned the use of such coercive practices by the military.

However, the CIA is still authorized by US President George W. Bush to use a number of secret "alternative" interrogation methods, according to the daily.

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