The Polish government is launching an inquiry into whether the country hosted Central Intelligence Agency prisons on its territory, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the prime minister, announced on Monday. The charge by US-based Human Rights Watch that the US intelligence agency kept prisoners accused of terrorism in Poland has been consistently rejected by Aleksander Kwasniewski, the Polish president. However, local media have uncovered evidence that US aircraft were stopping at Szymany, an obscure airport in northern Poland. On Saturday, the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper quoted airport workers saying a US Gulfstream executive jet used the airport in December 2002, and three times more in 2003, when a Boeing 737 also landed at the airport. The workers said that the aircraft did not refuel and were met on the tarmac by buses with darkened windows, apparently from a nearby military base at Stare Kielkuty, which is used for intelligence training. According to the Polish edition of Newsweek, a senior official in the office of Mr Marcinkiewicz refused to deny press reports about a secret prison.
The charge by US-based Human Rights Watch that the US intelligence agency kept prisoners accused of terrorism in Poland has been consistently rejected by Aleksander Kwasniewski, the Polish president.
However, local media have uncovered evidence that US aircraft were stopping at Szymany, an obscure airport in northern Poland.
On Saturday, the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper quoted airport workers saying a US Gulfstream executive jet used the airport in December 2002, and three times more in 2003, when a Boeing 737 also landed at the airport.
The workers said that the aircraft did not refuel and were met on the tarmac by buses with darkened windows, apparently from a nearby military base at Stare Kielkuty, which is used for intelligence training.
According to the Polish edition of Newsweek, a senior official in the office of Mr Marcinkiewicz refused to deny press reports about a secret prison.
How many intelligence bases (a/k/a "School of the Americas) does the USA have over the world?
This was total news for me. I had no idea they proliferated the bases for so called "intelligence training". "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within." Cicero
