Polish Agents Allege Existence of Secret CIA Prison Facility in Poland?
We know that in 2006 Bush confirmed that the CIA held terror suspects in secret jails, but didn't say where. Last year, a Council of Europe investigator said he had evidence that the CIA ran secret jails in Poland or Romania (BBC News 6-8-07), but the CIA denied that it operated any jails in European soil (BBC2 News 6-8-07)
The allegations concerning secret jails were made by Dick Marty, a Swiss Senator, an investigator on behalf of the European human rights body. (BBC News 6-8-07)
Unnamed CIA sources quoted by Mr Marty said Poland was the "black site" where eight "high-value detainees (HVDs)" were interrogated, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the US in 2001 - and Abu Zubaydah, a suspected top al-Qaeda operative.
The report says Romania "was developed into a site to which more detainees were transferred only as the HVD programme expanded".
"The secret detention facilities in Europe were run directly and exclusively by the CIA. To our knowledge, the local staff had no meaningful contact with the prisoners and performed purely logistical duties," the report continues.
But it adds: "the highest state authorities were aware of the CIA's illegal activities on their territories.(BBC News 6-8-07)
Now, according to Adam Easton of the BBC, Polish intelligence agents have asserted that the CIA did indeed run a secret prison in Poland. (BBC News 9-6-08)
Two anonymous intelligence officers made the claims about facilities being located in Poland in the daily Dziennik.
One of them states that between 2002 and 2005 the CIA held terror suspects inside a military intelligence training base in Stare Kiejkuty in north-eastern Poland. (BBC News 9-6-08; more)
The offices allege that the CIA kept the prisoners in a military intelligence training base in northeastern Poland to which only the CIA had access. (more)
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