Polonium

Monday, February 22, 2010

Details posted on alleged CIA-flights to Poland

Two human rights groups said Monday the government had provided official records for the first time confirming the landing in Poland of planes associated with the CIA's secret detainee program.

The data supports findings from a 2007 report by the Council of Europe on rendition flights, the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights said.

The groups said that flight logs provided by the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency under a Freedom of Information Act request revealed details about at least six landings in 2003 of a Gulfstream and a Boeing jet linked to the CIA at the former military airport of Szczytno-Szymany in northern Poland.

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