For 20 years, the United States military has tightly controlled what the world can see of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
Goggles with duct tape over the lenses and earmuffs like those used at a shooting range were seen as a more protessional alternative to black hoods to make sure a prisoner could not see or perceive his surroundings.
Each detainee arrived at Guantánamo wearing a turquoise medical mask because military medical workers suspected some were carrying tuberculosis.
If the pictures in this collection had been taken by news photographers today, none would have survived the censorship imposed by the military at Guantánamo Bay.
C.I.A. agents would repurpose aspects of that program to interrogate and torture suspected senior members of Al Qaeda. History shows those enhanced interrogations would begin months later, after hundreds of detainees had been brought to Guantánamo Bay.
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