Penny Lane: Secret CIA Guantanamo Facility Trained Prisoners To Be Double Agents

[unhappycamper]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/penny-lane-cia-guantanamo_n_4341377.html

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A soldier walks through an abandoned camp at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on August 8, 2013.

Penny Lane: Secret CIA Guantanamo Facility Trained Prisoners To Be Double Agents
By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO
11/26/13 12:18 AM ET EST AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early years after 9/11, the CIA turned some Guantanamo Bay prisoners into double agents then sent them home to help the U.S. kill terrorists, current and former U.S. officials said.

The CIA promised the prisoners freedom, safety for their families and millions of dollars from the agency's secret accounts.

It was a risky gamble. Officials knew there was a chance that some prisoners might quickly spurn their deal and kill Americans.

For the CIA, that was an acceptable risk in a dangerous business. For the American public, which was never told, the program was one of the many secret trade-offs the government made on its behalf. At the same time the government used the risk of terrorism to justify imprisoning people indefinitely, it was releasing dangerous people from prison to work for the CIA.

[annabanana]

1. Jaw dropping revelations.

I wonder what else will eventually come to light?

[Frustratedlady]

2. That the CIA is a major problem?

I wouldn't have the stomach to work for that group.