Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture ProgramSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2006 M10 17 - 384 pages For the first time, Stephen Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism. |
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... British wife , Asma , a twenty - seven - year - old former banker , and before being recalled to Damascus , al - Assad himself had prac- ticed as a doctor in London for two years . Both the United States and Britain were hoping to use ...
... British used to outsource their imperial tasks . And during the cold war the outsourcing of the CIA's difficult jobs had been just a matter of routine . In theory , the CIA was set up with the main task of the clandestine collection of ...
... British and French intelligence , were not allowed to cross through the fabled Khyber Pass into Afghanistan . Though America's allies in Afghanistan were often Is- lamic fundamentalists , this was a war that commanded support across the ...
... British author George Orwell , Solzhenitsyn described not only the evils of a totalitarian society but explored what Orwell called the " double - think " that persuaded ordinary human beings to ignore the atrocities perpetrated so close ...
... British resident was loaded on the same plane the following year and saw " big people in black balaclavas . " 10 In Pakistan , another Londoner was put on a plane to Morocco by operatives " dressed in black , with masks , wearing what ...
Contents
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A German Citizens Journey | 79 |
Unmasking the New Air America | 105 |
The Secret War Against Al Qaeda | 129 |
The Ice | 155 |
Our Man in Tashkent | 205 |
Rendition and the Law | 214 |
The Realpolitik of Torture | 236 |
Epilogue | 263 |
Appendixes | 277 |
Acknowledgments | 319 |
153 | 366 |
Index | 377 |
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Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program Stephen Grey No preview available - 2007 |