Poland admits role in CIA renditions

POLISH authorities have for the first time admitted their involvement in the CIA's secret program for the rendition of high-level terrorist suspects from Iraq and Afghanistan.

After a campaign by two rights groups, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative, Warsaw's air control service confirmed at least six CIA flights had landed at a disused military air base in northern Poland in 2003.

For years, human rights investigators have believed Poland played a role in the secret program, which became a scandal for the Bush administration.

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