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jakeXT

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Sun Dec 14, 2014, 12:59 PM Dec 2014

'CIA paid me to use airstrip as rendition zone... and to look the other way': Former airport directo

'CIA paid me to use airstrip as rendition zone... and to look the other way': Former airport director reveals secret Polish staging post for U.S. torture programme


Mysterious flights arrived with little notice – and up to six times the landing fees were paid by anonymous officials

Military cars with darkened windows took passengers from the plane in secret and off to a Polish military intelligence base

She believes she witnessed the arrival of September 11 ‘mastermind’ Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on a CIA Gulfstream jet – which later landed in Glasgow

Airport staff were forbidden to approach the aircraft

A quiet American woman, said to be ‘from the embassy’, once watched as a transfer took place

Basic safety rules were sometimes flouted.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2873010/CIA-paid-use-airstrip-rendition-zone-look-way-Former-airport-director-reveals-secret-Polish-staging-post-U-S-torture-programme.html

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