Six days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, President George W. Bush issued a directive allowing the CIA to secretly detain and interrogate prisoners at clandestine sites located around the world, cut off from communication with legal counsel, family, and everyone else. The locations of eight of these sites, along with descriptions of some of the deeply disturbing practices there, were included in today’s release of the so-called “torture report” — the heavily redacted executive summary of a senate committee study of the CIA’s Bush-era interrogation program.
The report identifies the locations of the CIA black sites by color codes and redacts the country names, but previous reports by NGOs, European agencies, media reports and detainee statements can identify most of the locations. The sites are located in Afghanistan, Lithuania, Romania, Poland, Thailand, and a secret site on the Guantanamo Naval Base, known as Strawberry Fields, – “forever.”
Margot Williams, The Intercept‘s research editor for investigations, compiled the locations and, with research editor Josh Begley, placed them on the map below:
Photo: Google Maps
The Polish president at the time has admitted he knew about the prison in Poland (though denies knowledge of torture). Given the redactions on locations were argued for on the basis of avoiding embarrassment to host countries, the redaction of the Polish site is no longer valid.
I notice that near each of these markers (except perhaps the white one which is pixelated and the black one which is black and white) there are two buildings, one with a bright blue roof and one with a bright red roof. Also the construction seems pretty consistent. Are these in U.S. military bases and is that some standard feature of one? Or is it a simple signal for the helicopter pilot to make sure he doesn’t have to nose around base looking or ask some radio operator where the secret torture facility is?
Lithuania, Romania and Poland are American Trojan horses in Europe. It is not spam comment, but my blog was blocked by network admin at university medicine library in copenhagen, I wrote also about cia torture and about killing Afro-Americans (fbi war on black america), when I use proxies, my blog is working, but I can’t access my blog in normal way from this library: https://blog.predicsasa.com
I guess the American elites can be happy they have subservient elites in Poland, who will sit when told to sit, lie down when told to lie down, roll over when told to roll over. I hope L.Miller, A.Kwa?niewski and all those who were in some way involved in this get served a court order. These disgusting barbarians who are apparently democratic liberals are a stain on the history of Poland. A bunch of war criminals that should rot behind bars for their crimes of aggression.
What a f—— disgrace to a once-noble country!!
As a WWII veteran, what I really WANT to do is to disavow my citizenship to this filthy, gutless country (which I once held in such esteem that I was ready and willing to die for it). Now, I wouldn’t stoop to pick up a discarded cigarette butt if the survival of the country hung in the balance. However, that display of disaffection would only result in injury to myself, not one or more of the perpetrators of misdeeds.
My disenchantment began in 1950 when Harry Truman rushed to save the totally corrupt government of South Korea from the equally corrupt clutches of their northern neighbors…….at the cost of some FORTY THOUSAND AMERICAN LIVES, if memory serves. Vietnam was even worse, and “Dick” (an appropriate name for such a vile creature) Cheney along with “Bush, the Idiot Child” once again repeated our felonies by multiplying and compounding misadventures in Iraq!! Actually, Saddam Hussein might have been a better choice than any of the alternatives, but the fragile egos of confirmed cowards (who have never served but always sought out a safe place) were not to be denied).
There is, of course, ONE place where such miscreants ARE dealt with: The World Court, located in The Hague, Netherlands. I was established (with our affirmation) specifically to provide a locus for dealing with criminals who are beyond the meager bounds of individual countries……but, NO, that would be too severe……wouldn’t it????????
So Much for the America of Jefferson…..of Lincoln…..or of our greatest President (and my Commander In Chief)…..Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “Rest in Peace, wonderful leader, inspirer of those who would impose JUSTICE on ALL……and my personal Hero for his lifetime of shining example. In the not too distant future,
I will be departing from this muddy, filthy, corrupt, phony throwback to the Medieval……..AND I PITY THOSE OF YOU WHO MUST REMAIN !!!!!!
C
While I agree that the torture was reprehensible and this marks an incredibly dark Chapter for the U.S., I find it odd that you nostalgically praise FDR as the arbiter of Justice when it was FDR that authorized the internment of over one-hundred thousand Japanese Americans.
So no, the sky isn’t falling today. The U.S. has had disgusting episodes throughout our history and it will continue. The goal is to learn from them and not repeat the same mistakes.
Watch the doc … Engines of domination … just another tool to be used against the people of this world , and sadly their tool box is full of tricks and psychos willing to help . QUOTE …. It was fun fun fun , where else could a red-blooded american boy lie kill cheat steal deceive rape and pillage with the sanction and BLESSING of the all highest ? CIA scientist George white . Nice people we have here eh ? And we put trust into these LEADERS ??? This world is run by some sick psycho-killers . Tc all .
And what about Diego Garcia (US occupied UK territory @ Indian Ocean)? No more than a brief stop-over en route to Hades?
Great work. Just curious though, the title reads “Nine Sites…” but on the map only six are listed. Is this an error or are there three more black site locations that have been identitified?
SALT PIT is shown as “+3″ and you might need to zoom in towards it to see THE HANGAR (also in Afghanistan). That makes for a total of 9 sites.
You left out Germany. Those guys are proven expert in torturing people, and eavesdropping as well.
Ah, still stuck in the past, I see. If you bothered to read the news, you would have known how little tolerance there is in Germany for ex-Stasi members (although the Stasi pales in comparison to the US CIA and military when it comes to mistreatment of prisoners), and how outraged the Germans are over the use of US bases in occupied Germany for transferring rendered prisoners.
Why don’t you devote some thought to what we ought to do with our own war criminals, and perhaps reflect on the nature of the US relationship with countries like Poland, Romania, Thailand and (above all) Lithuania, who are so eager to support our human rights abuses. SInce you apparently enjoy digging up the past, perhaps you might have cast a barb at the Lithuanians, who were eager participants in the Holocaust, providing a substantial proportion of the personnel who ran the death camps, performing work that even the SS considered distasteful.
Given the horrific extent of human atrociousness already being argued over (is it 98, or 120-something, or more illegally terrorized humans?) I cannot be comfortable at all in feeling that this is only the tip of the iceberg, in that there were many more renditioned and tortured at more sites and that more probably exist even today – discounting the obvious Gitmo.
This contracted-interrogator at Abu Ghraib who is now a professor in the USA (and a confessed torturer), Eric Fair, explains why: “I was an interrogator at Abu Ghraib. I tortured.”
http://t.co/ZMm8byXbhe
The CIA used a lot of private contractors in its torture program (whose primary aim was to create false links between Saddam’s Iraq, 9/11, the anthrax attacks and WMD programs) ; those contractors were then sent to Iraq where their practices were adopted by the U.S. and British military interrogators (this report narrowly focuses on CIA torture and ignores the much larger, systematic torture program in Iraq, which seemed to be aimed at terrorizing the civilian population of Iraq into submission as the insurgency expanded).
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/19/britain-guilty-systemic-torture-iraq
Would the Poland site be the one at Stare Kiejkuty?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stare_Kiejkuty_%28base%29
If so, the previous tenants included Soviet intelligence and the SD (SS intelligence).
As someone who cares what kind of world my grandchildren will live in I can only stress how important these revelations are in bringing to light the evil that still endures in this world. Thanhk you Ryan for adding another piece to this sordid story. Not proud to be an American right now. Speak up people.
Excellent work Team TI.
Many thanks for publishing the truth.
So we kissed Cameron’s butt and didn’t include Diego Garcia?