Europe complicit in CIA "dirty work" - investigator

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BURGDORF, Switzerland (Reuters) - A Swiss investigator said on Friday European governments had been complicit in illegal CIA activities in the "war on terror", after reports that the Americans ran secret prisons in Europe.

Swiss senator Dick Marty, investigating the allegations for the 46-nation rights group Council of Europe, said he was personally convinced of the existence of the detention centres but had yet to come up with concrete proof.

"It's not possible to transport people from one place to another in such a manner without the secret services knowing about it," he said. "What was shocking was the passivity with which we all, in Europe, have welcomed these things."

Marty is to present a preliminary report to the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe on January 23 over reports the Americans ran centres in eastern Europe where suspects where interrogated, tortured or transported to other countries in a process Washington calls "rendition".