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CIA faces new secret jails claim
By Daniel Dombey
01/10/06 "FT"
-- -- The CIA kept 23 people in a secret prison in
Romania and maintained similar facilities in Bulgaria, Ukraine,
Macedonia and Kosovo, according to allegations contained in a leaked
Swiss intelligence report.
The leak, to Switzerland's SonntagsBlick newspaper, was based on an
intercepted fax sent by Egypt's foreign ministry to Egypt's embassy
in London in November. Egyptian officials declined to comment
yesterday. But Swiss officials said the report was genuine and that
its publication had led to an internal inquiry.
The news comes after months of controversy over the US's use of
intensive interrogation techniques and extra-legal abductions, and
allegations that it operated secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe.
The countries that have come under greatest suspicion until now,
Poland and Romania, have denied that they have hosted any such
facilities. Nato, which has a 16,000-strong force in Kosovo, also
denies that it has run any secret prisons in the province.
Dan Dombey, Brussels
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