Wednesday, 25 June 2008

EU countries obstructing investigations into CIA renditions, report says

LEIGH PHILLIPS
EU Observer
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The "most important" of the CIA's secret detention prisons, or 'black sites', in the years immediately following the 11 September attacks was situated in Szymany, some 160km north of Warsaw, according to officers with the US intelligence service.

In a weekend article in the New York Times newspaper, unnamed CIA officers tell of one of the presumed dozens of sites, hitherto vehemently denied by the Polish government as having been located within the country.

One officer quoted in the article says James L. Parvitt, a former director of the agency's clandestine service, as saying: "Poland is the 51st state."
FULL ARTICLE @ EU Observer

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