CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Horseback Riding Academy
November 20th, 2009Via: ABC News:
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week.
Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure where it could use harsh tactics to interrogate up to eight suspected al-Qaeda terrorists at a time.
“The activities in that prison were illegal,” said human rights researcher John Sifton. “They included various forms of torture, including sleep deprivation, forced standing, painful stress positions.”
Lithuanian officials provided ABC News with the documents of what they called a CIA front company, Elite, LLC, which purchased the property and built the “black site” in 2004.
Seems like the Lithuanians are not going to be exposed and left with this humans rights mess.
They are going after anyone who was involved, Lithuanians, US.
Be interesting to see what type of passport scans the Lithuanian authorities kept of the “technicians” with needed language skills 😉
To see public foes happy to work together in a CIA built concrete structure in Lithuania 🙂
Lets hope a new generation of EU MP’s like Swiss MP Dick Marty follow this up 🙂