Here he says that he didn't make a tragedy of it, not that it wasn't awful.
--- On Sat, 5/23/09, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, and Lasts Six Seconds Before Saying It's Torture
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, May 23, 2009, 7:09 PM
> Michael writes: "FWIW, 40 years
> later, in one of his last (of several) memoirs, in the
> 1990s, I hear Massu recanted and admitted his "proof" was
> fraudulent."
>
> Massu was still sticking to his 'electric torture was not
> so bad' story when he was interviewed in the Spectator in
> 1994
>
> 'Anyway, I tried la gégène on myself; it was not so
> terrible.' 'To which part of the body did you attach the
> wires' he was asked by Simon Cortauld. 'I don't remember -
> it gives you a shock, but I didn't make a tragedy out of it.
> The gégène had been used in other parts of Algeria. I was
> surprised, but then I was told that it had been in general
> use since Indo-China. The Battle of Algiers was not
> something that we enjoyed; but we carried it through with a
> certain style [élègance].'
> quoted here: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/defeat-french-humanism.htm
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