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CIA Paid $15 Million Cash to Create a Torture Prison in Poland
Torture didnt come without a price tag, literally, for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the post-9/11 years and the hunt for al-Qaeda suspects.
Once the agency began rounding up key terrorism suspects, it needed a place to stash them and conduct brutal interrogations. The government of Poland proved a willing ally, by providing a location far outside Warsaw for the CIA to use.
But it had to cough up $15 million for the black site villa-turned-prison, according to The Washington Post.
The money was flown via diplomatic pouch from Germany to Warsaw, where two CIA operatives personally delivered it to Agencja Wywiadu, the Polish intelligence service.
For $15 million, the CIA got a former training base located in Stare Kiejkuty, about three hours north of Warsaw. The prison (codenamed Quartz) consisted of a two-story villa that could only hold a handful of detainees. The spartan accommodations included a large shed, which the CIA converted into a cell to hold more prisoners.
http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/cia-paid-15-million-dollars-cash-to-create-a-torture-prison-in-poland-140126?news=852265
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Progressive dog
(6,930 posts)I'm glad you agree.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)It's wonderful you have left the tyranny of the old soviet union and joined with "Free Europe".
Now that you've joined the civilized western world, we would like to set up a medieval torture center where we can torture people we abduct from around the world.
Thank you for your cooperation in this torture and extrajudical imprisonment,
Your buddies,
NATO and the West.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I have to admit, nothing fucking surprises me anymore about this country. I guess that is a step up from running heroin out of Laos for drug warlords.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)music video:
Cleita
(75,480 posts)commandeered like they did Abu Ghraib, Saddam's torture prison in Iraq? Just sayin'.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)don't we have a say?
bush and cheney owe us $15 million
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)do it.
I just hope we stop lecturing anyone else on their 'inhumanity'. The world only laughs at us now. We could have been such a force for good in this world.