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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... CIA also had another goal . In World War II , the CIA's forerunner , the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) , was tasked not only with finding spies but with running paramilitary operations behind enemy lines . The supporting mis ...
... CIA to help him with his job . Whether paid or not , the problem with such a liaison was that it involved a loss of control . A CIA station chief like John Hortons could not issue a direct order to Colonel Rodriguez . Horton might issue ...
The True Story of the CIA Torture Program Stephen Grey. south Vietnam.8 Southeast Asia also saw the expansion of the CIA's pro- prietary airline , Air America , to become reportedly the largest commer- cial airline in the world and , to ...
... CIA's activities , 12 President Nixon's successor , President Ford , is- sued instructions to the CIA that banned political assassinations . 13 The Air America airline was decommissioned , and there was a general brake put on the more ...
... CIA's most successful ever covert action . It cost Soviet communism dearly , and was ar- guably a crucial factor in the entire collapse of the regime - a collapse that sadly the CIA failed to predict . When the Berlin Wall came down in ...
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 |