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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-29-07 07:59 PM
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Secret facility tracks government employees missing in foreign contries
Source: Associated Press

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A secret military facility outside Spokane tracks the movements of government employees and contractors who are missing in foreign countries, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

While most residents of the region have heard of the Survival School at nearby Fairchild Air Force Base, few know about the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which oversees the school but also conducts more clandestine work.

Dozens work at the White Bluff site, where training on how to behave if captured, and on Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) tactics, are taught to various government employees headed overseas, The Spokesman-Review reported.

Although the U.S. military confirms the existence of the JPRA facility in Spokane, details about its mission are classified.


Read more: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/9456391.html
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-29-07 08:17 PM
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1. They're not missing, they're in protective custody
of foreign sovereign states, under extraordinary rendition rules made legal by the precedent set by our own government.

They are not being tortured; they are being vigorously interrogated.

:sarcasm:
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