Polands CIA 'Black Sites'

7th September 2010 - At the end of July 2010 the Polish Office of Border Security gave a number of recently-released documents to the Poland-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), which for the first time provided details of transported passengers, including possible terrorism suspects, on seven of the CIA flights to a secret prison in Poland between December 2002 and September 2003.

 

The documents disclosed information about the secret prison at Szymany in the northeast of Poland, a so-called “black site”, and added information about the program in Romania.
On 9 August the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza published an interview with the head of the legal division of the HFHR, Adam Bodnar. The journalist asked if Polish prosecutors are considering charging the highest ranked officials for the secret prisons that they allegedly allowed the CIA to set up in Poland when the War on Terror was at its height. These include former President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former Prime Minister Leszek Miller, ex-Minister of the Interior and Administration Krzysztof Janik, and Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, the former head of the Polish Intelligence Agency. {read more}