WASHINGTON -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Attorneys for a `` high-value '' terror suspect who says he was tortured while being held at secret CIA prisons have requested that a judge bar the agency from destroying evidence of the alleged torture . One of 14 `` high-value '' detainees held at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba , alleges he was tortured . The motion , filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys on behalf of Majid Khan -- who is being held at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba -- is dated November 29 . That is a week before CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged the agency destroyed videotapes it made in 2002 of interrogations of al Qaeda suspects using newly approved `` alternative '' interrogation techniques . Khan -- a native of Pakistan who attended high school in Baltimore -- was held for more than three years at the secret CIA prisons and `` subjected to an aggressive CIA detention and interrogation program notable for its elaborate planning and ruthless application of torture , '' attorney Gitanjali S. Gutierrez claims in the court documents . Details of Khan 's torture claims are redacted in the filing -- a whole page is blacked out -- but Khan 's attorneys say he suffers `` severe physical and psychological trauma from which he is unlikely ever to recover fully '' as a result of his ordeal . Asked about Khan 's claims , CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano told CNN , `` CIA 's terrorist interrogation effort has always been small , carefully run , lawful and highly productive . Fewer than 100 hardened terrorists have gone through the program since it began in 2002 , and of those , less than a third required any special methods of questioning . The United States does not conduct or condone torture . '' Khan 's attorneys claim he was taken into custody in 2003 and `` forcibly disappeared '' before his transfer to Guantanamo , `` where he remains imprisoned without charge or trial . '' He filed a legal challenge to his detention in September 2006 and appeared before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal in April , the court documents said . He was found to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant , but filed a challenge to that on August 14 . He was not allowed to meet with an attorney , however , until October , the document said . The Bush administration contends Khan was an operative working for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , mastermind of the September 11 , 2001 , terrorist attacks . Khan researched how to blow up gas stations and poison reservoirs in the United States , the administration has said . He is among 14 `` high-value '' detainees held at Guantanamo . Gutierrez and another CCR attorney , Wells Dixon , also released declassified notes of their meetings with Khan , saying he has been on hunger strikes while in Guantanamo , is `` painfully thin and pale '' and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder . In detention , he has been able to communicate with Abu Zubayda , an alleged lieutenant for Osama bin Laden , they said in the notes . A government official with knowledge of the destroyed CIA tapes has said that Zubayda was one of the two al Qaeda suspects whose interrogations were videotaped . While undergoing interrogation and torture by the CIA , `` Khan admitted anything his interrogators demanded of him , regardless of the truth , in order to end his suffering , '' the documents said . Without a court order requiring the preservation of evidence , `` there is substantial risk that the torture evidence will disappear '' and that may affect the challenge to his detention , the attorneys claim . The motion was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit . Hayden has said the CIA stopped videotaping in 2002 , while Khan was not taken into custody until the following year . `` The careful , professional and lawful questioning of hardened terrorists has produced thousands of intelligence reports , revealed exceptionally valuable insights on al Qaeda 's operations and organization , foiled terrorist plots and saved innocent lives , '' Gimigliano said . `` The information developed by the detention and interrogation program has been irreplaceable , and the program has operated in strict accord with American law . '' E-mail to a friend CNN 's Gary Nurenberg contributed to this report .