This picture, taken on October 19, 2010, shows the Szczytno-Szymany airport in Szymany. Poland has charged its former spy chief as part of a probe into claims it hosted a CIA "black site" where suspected al Qaeda members were allegedly tortured. Polish prosecutors launched an investigation in August 2008 into allegations that Warsaw had allowed the US Central Intelligence Agency to operate a secret prison on its soil to interrogate top suspects in the September 11, 2001, attacks. Polish campaigners said in July that they had obtained official records about seven CIA planes — five of them carrying passengers — which landed in 2002 and 2003 at Szymany, a Polish military base in northeast Poland.
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An exterior view of the Office of the National Register for Secret State Information, or ORNISS, which stores confidential information and ensures only authorized people gain access to it, taken in Bucharest on December 8, 2011. According to an investigation revealed by German media on December 8, the CIA used a clandestine detention centre in Bucharest to interrogate terror suspects believed to have links to al Qaeda, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. The prison, used between 2003 and 2006, was in the cellar of a government building in a northwestern residential neighborhood of the Romanian capital, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and ARD public television said. Journalists from the two media organisations, as well as the Associated Press news agency, said the centre was identified in photos by former CIA operatives active in Bucharest. Although the existence of a so-called "black site" in Romania, set up by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of its clandestine counter-terrorism operations, has long been suspected, its location was unknown. Just days before the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Council of Europe's human rights chief urged Poland, Romania and Lithuania to lift the lid on CIA "black sites" where detainees were allegedly tortured on their soil. In ARD's Panorama programme, due to be broadcast later Thursday, an ORNISS official denied the prison had existed on its premises, according to a statement from the television station. Romania has vehemently denied hosting such a site.
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This picture taken on October 19, 2010 shows the Szczytno-Szymany airport in Szymany. Poland has charged its former spy chief as part of a probe into claims it hosted a CIA "black site" where suspected al Qaeda members were allegedly tortured, a newspaper reported on March 28, 2012. Polish prosecutors launched an investigation in August 2008 into allegations that Warsaw had allowed the US Central Intelligence Agency to operate a secret prison on its soil to interrogate top suspects in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Polish campaigners said in July that they had obtained official records about seven CIA planes — five of them carrying passengers — which landed in 2002 and 2003 at Szymany, a Polish military base in northeast Poland.
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An exterior view of the Office of the National Register for Secret State Information, or ORNISS, which stores confidential information and ensures only authorized people gain access to it, taken in Bucharest on December 8, 2011. According to an investigation revealed by German media on December 8, the CIA used a clandestine detention centre in Bucharest to interrogate terror suspects believed to have links to al Qaeda, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. The prison, used between 2003 and 2006, was in the cellar of a government building in a northwestern residential neighborhood of the Romanian capital, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and ARD public television said. Journalists from the two media organisations, as well as the Associated Press news agency, said the centre was identified in photos by former CIA operatives active in Bucharest. Although the existence of a so-called "black site" in Romania, set up by the Central Intelligence Agency as part of its clandestine counter-terrorism operations, has long been suspected, its location was unknown. Just days before the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Council of Europe's human rights chief urged Poland, Romania and Lithuania to lift the lid on CIA "black sites" where detainees were allegedly tortured on their soil. In ARD's Panorama programme, due to be broadcast later Thursday, an ORNISS official denied the prison had existed on its premises, according to a statement from the television station. Romania has vehemently denied hosting such a site.
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Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg holds a meeting with Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaite in the presidential palace in Vilnius on October 20, 2009. Grybauskaite said she had "indirect suspicions" that the Baltic state had hosted a secret CIA prison to hold terror suspects. Grybauskaite took office as president in July after having served since 2004 as Lithuania's member of the European Union's Brussels-based executive arm, the European Commission. She has pledged to investigate the claims, which surfaced in August and have been denied by the Lithuanian government. The US station ABC, citing unnamed ex-CIA officials, named Lithuania as one country that hosted such prisons for "high-value" al Qaeda suspects.
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European deputy Claudio Fava of Italy holds a press conference November 14, 2007, on the secret prisons of the CIA in Europe at the European Parliament during a plenary session in the northeastern French city of Strasbourg.
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US Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) talks with the press after attending a briefing by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on current issues involving Iraq, in the wake of her tour of four European nations which was clouded by controversy over alleged secret CIA prisons for "war on terror" suspects in eastern Europe, December 14, 2005, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Opposition Democrats expressed anger after being told they could not raise classified matters, including the use of torture, in the meeting with Rice.
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Photo taken March 12, 2004, of a plane suspected of being used by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) departing from Palma de Mallorca airport. Dick Marty, the Swiss lawmaker leading an inquiry into reports of secret CIA detention centers in Europe presented January 24, 2006, an interim report of his findings to the Council of Europe, saying there was convincing evidence that Washington sent detainees to third countries to be tortured but there was no "irrefutable evidence" of the existence of secret CIA prisons in Europe.
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Commander Dan Buciuman, the chief-in-command of Military Air Base 86, near Mihail Kogalniceanu village (250km East from Bucharest) gestures during an interview with AFP, November 4, 2005. On Wednesday, The Washington Post said the CIA was running a network of secret facilities for captured terror suspects in eight countries, outside the reach of the US justice system. The rights group Human Rights Watch said it believed Poland and Romania had cooperated with the CIA based on flight records and other evidence. One of the places mentioned to be used as prison for terror suspects is Air Base 86, which was providing logistics support during the Iraq war and is supposed also to became a NATO base.
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A soldier closes the entrance gate of Military Air Base 86, near Mihail Kogalniceanu village (250km East from Bucharest), November 4, 2005. On Wednesday, The Washington Post said the CIA was running a network of secret facilities for captured terror suspects in eight countries, outside the reach of the US justice system. The rights group Human Rights Watch said it believed Poland and Romania had cooperated with the CIA based on flight records and other evidence. One of the places mentioned to be used as prison for terror suspects is Air Base 86, which was providing logistics support during the Iraq war and is supposed also to became a NATO base.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised to get to the bottom of allegations that his country played a role in the operation of a secret CIA prison on Polish soil where Al Qaeda suspects were interrogated.
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