The carry out building of the airfield in Szymany, Poland. Poland has certified a purpose in a CIA delivery programme. Photograph: AP
The Polish authorities have for the initial time certified their impasse in the CIA"s tip programme for the delivery of high-level militant suspects from Iraq and Afghanistan, it emerged today.
After years of stonewalling, Warsaw"s air carry out use reliable that at slightest 6 CIA flights had landed at a outworn troops air bottom in northern Poland in 2003.
"It is time for the authorities to yield a full accounting of Poland"s purpose in rendition," Adam Bodnar, of the Warsaw-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, said.
"These moody annals strengthen the discouraging commentary of central European inquiries and tellurian human rights groups, display complicity with CIA abuse opposite Europe."
For years, European and human rights investigators have believed Poland played a key purpose in the tip renditions programme, that became a human rights liaison for the George Bush administration.
An endless Council of Europe review in 2007 found that "especially supportive high-value detainees" were hold at a jail facility, rented by the CIA from the Poles, nearby the Szymany airfield in northern Poland.
The Polish authorities told the investigators they were not wakeful of moody interpretation that would exhibit the trade in kidnapping.
But following a leisure of report debate from the Helsinki Foundation and the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency expelled moody interpretation display that at slightest dual of the aircraft used in the CIA operations flew from Kabul and Rabat, in Morocco, to Szymany at slightest 6 times in between Feb and Sep 2003.
"We know that CIA detainees were hold in those dual locations in the duration in question," the campaigners said.
The dual aircraft, a Boeing 737 and a Gulfstream V, were US-registered and formerly well known to be piece of the CIA operation.
"In the past, the Polish supervision denied the impasse in rendition. It unsuccessful to yield any of these moody annals to prior investigations," the campaigners said.
Analysis of the moody logs additionally indicated an attempted corner coverup by the CIA and the Polish authorities, with the aviation authorities being told that multiform of the flights were unfailing not for Szymany but for Warsaw.
"The CIA filed "dummy" and fake moody plans, or no moody plans at all, for the incoming and effusive flights of N379P," the campaigners added.
"[The Polish aviation authority] collaborated with the CIA by usurpation the charge of navigating these sheltered flights in to and out of Szymany airfield but adhering to the mandate of general moody formulation regulations.
"The majority conspicuous aspect is that the Polish government, that confirmed for some-more than 4 years that no such annals existed – or that, if they did, they were untraceable – has right away supposing an assumingly extensive list of these landings, gathered and presented in an nurse and awake fashion."
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