Edited sentence: The British intelligence services were able to gain most of their knowledge by using widespread torture against suspected Mau Mau rebels, an act which was in direct violation of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a treaty which Great Britain officially strongly supported.White settlers often took to torturing their servants and tenants in an attempt to glean intelligence or purely for sadistic sport, whilst the security services made use of torture chambers in Nairobi to extract information on the Passive Wing