CIA Paid $15 Million Cash to Create a Torture Prison in Poland

[The Straight Story]

CIA Paid $15 Million Cash to Create a Torture Prison in Poland


Torture didn’t come without a price tag, literally, for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the post-9/11 years and the hunt for al-Qaeda suspects.

Once the agency began rounding up key terrorism suspects, it needed a place to stash them and conduct brutal interrogations. The government of Poland proved a willing ally, by providing a location far outside Warsaw for the CIA to use.

But it had to cough up $15 million for the “black site” villa-turned-prison, according to The Washington Post.

The money was flown via diplomatic pouch from Germany to Warsaw, where two CIA operatives personally delivered it to Agencja Wywiadu, the Polish intelligence service.

For $15 million, the CIA got a former training base located in Stare Kiejkuty, about three hours north of Warsaw. The prison (codenamed “Quartz”) consisted of a two-story villa that could only hold a handful of detainees. The “spartan” accommodations included a large shed, which the CIA converted into a cell to hold more prisoners.

http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/cia-paid-15-million-dollars-cash-to-create-a-torture-prison-in-poland-140126?news=852265

[Demo_Chris]

1. We don't do ANY of that stuff now though...

[Progressive dog]

2. No we don't " Quartz was finally shut down in September 2003."

I'm glad you agree.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. What about Topaz, Ruby and Granite?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. We're much nicer now. And, all the torturers are in prison...oh, wait...we have to look forward.

[Jesus Malverde]

5. Dear Poland..

It's wonderful you have left the tyranny of the old soviet union and joined with "Free Europe".

Now that you've joined the civilized western world, we would like to set up a medieval torture center where we can torture people we abduct from around the world.

Thank you for your cooperation in this torture and extrajudical imprisonment,

Your buddies,

NATO and the West.

[Rex]

6. Did they make the command posts look like the bridge of the USS enterpoop?

I have to admit, nothing fucking surprises me anymore about this country. I guess that is a step up from running heroin out of Laos for drug warlords.

[johnnyreb]

7. "al-Qaeda suspects", "terrorism suspects", "antigov suspects", "possible theoretical suspects"

music video:

[Cleita]

8. Weren't there any left over from the NAZI occupation they could have

commandeered like they did Abu Ghraib, Saddam's torture prison in Iraq? Just sayin'.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. It used OUR money to build it

don't we have a say?

bush and cheney owe us $15 million

[sabrina 1]

10. Evil. There is no other word for it. So long as there is money in torture monsters will continue to

do it.

I just hope we stop lecturing anyone else on their 'inhumanity'. The world only laughs at us now. We could have been such a force for good in this world.

[nilesobek]

11. "Murica!" "Fweedumb Rings!"