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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... agents and then flown to Syria on December 27 , also at the request of the United States . While tortured by George Salloum's men , Mohammed faced lists of questions sent directly by the CIA , the report confirmed . Mohammed's home ...
... agents . Some agents could provide information about communist activities . The others were more suited to taking action . For example , what the KGB called " agents of influence " might need to be recruited : those who could influence ...
... agent . He would be fed tidbits of information by the 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 ...
... agents to take part in Operation PB Success : the 1954 coup authorized by President Eisenhower against the left - leaning ( but democratically elected ) president of Guatemala . Among the papers is a study of assassination that , after ...
... agents , who wore Timberland boots and black masks , and who transported prisoners , blindfolded and shackled , to these torture centers across the world . When I examined this modern world of prisoners and terror suspects , the story ...
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 |