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|description=Black sites are places where a [[black project]] or [[covert operation]] is executed, organized, or held. Locations can vary from an [[air force]] or other [[military base]], plain library, a secret embassy wing to even a jet-[[plane]] itself. Some black sites do become known to the general public, although often as a [[modified limited hangouts]].
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'''Black sites'''  are locations at which a secret [[covert operation]] (or '''black ops''') or [[black project]] is conducted.<ref>https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Black_site</ref> Black sites can facilitate [[governments]] in holding victims of [[extraordinary rendition]] for all kinds of purposes. They are often funded by a [[black budget]]. Although the definition is better known for centuries as "secret [[prisons]]", [[militarization]] all over the world in the [[1900s]] and [[intelligence agencies]] have begun utilizing black sites for a now wider array of projects that are either unacknowledged or not supposed to be revealed by governments in any way. During the [[2000s]] the [[CIA]] became synchronously named with this term as dozens of reports revealed the CIA to be utilizing an extremely large network with over 50 countries involved.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130220112418/http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/projects/globalizing-torture</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/01/25/what-are-black-sites-6-key-things-to-know-about-the-cias-secret-prisons-overseas/</ref>
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''Note: Known sites are missing and could easily be added to WS''
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'''Black sites'''  are locations at which a secret [[covert operation]] (or '''black ops''') or [[black project]] is conducted.<ref>https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Black_site</ref> They are often funded by a [[black budget]]. Although the definition is better known for centuries as "secret [[prisons]]", [[militarization]] all over the world in the [[1900s]] and [[intelligence agencies]] have begun utilizing black sites for a now wider array of projects that are either unacknowledged or not supposed to be revealed by governments in any way. During the [[2000s]] the [[CIA]] became synchronously named with this term as dozens of reports revealed the CIA to be utilizing an extremely large network with over 50 countries involved.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130220112418/http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/projects/globalizing-torture</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/01/25/what-are-black-sites-6-key-things-to-know-about-the-cias-secret-prisons-overseas/</ref>
  
  
 
==Official narrative==
 
==Official narrative==
 
"There are no secret prisons<ref>https://pace.coe.int/en/news/5722</ref>", "The state is on your side", or like in China (where the massive internment camps for Uighur Muslims in the [[Xinjiang]]-province were successfully kept secret for an average of 10 years) "It's just re-education".<ref>https://jamestown.org/program/evidence-for-chinas-political-re-education-campaign-in-xinjiang/</ref>
 
"There are no secret prisons<ref>https://pace.coe.int/en/news/5722</ref>", "The state is on your side", or like in China (where the massive internment camps for Uighur Muslims in the [[Xinjiang]]-province were successfully kept secret for an average of 10 years) "It's just re-education".<ref>https://jamestown.org/program/evidence-for-chinas-political-re-education-campaign-in-xinjiang/</ref>
Although with the rise of the internet, when several secret prisons do become known to the public, the governments of the world and their standard responses since [[Ancient Rome]] have been something similar to "No, not here, this country doesn't do that"..... and don't seem to have changed after [[9-11]]. Since the [[2010s]], the [[UN]] has condemned the massive collaboration of countries of all continents participating in these sort of programs, specifically highlighting the legal status of people transferred and operating at these prisons or bases.<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/AdvanceVersions/CAT.C.USA.CO.2.pdf</ref>
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Although with the rise of the internet, when several secret prisons do become known to the public, the governments of the world and their standard responses since [[Ancient Rome]] have been something similar to "No, not here, this country doesn't do that" up to "nobody will be prosecuted, it wasn't that bad". Since the [[2010s]], the [[UN]] has condemned the massive collaboration of countries of all continents participating in these sort of programs, specifically highlighting the legal status of people transferred and operating at these prisons or bases.<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/AdvanceVersions/CAT.C.USA.CO.2.pdf</ref>
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[[File:CIABLACKSITE.jpg|400px|thumb|left|An incomplete map of participating countries in the biggest known program. Although the case was reported dozens of times by corporate media, this incomplete map has a rather interesting source ([[George Soros]] his [[Open Society Foundations]]), hinting a [[modified limited hangout]]?]]
  
 
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==Secret Prisons==
 
==Secret Prisons==
Although separate areas in a prison - where one would be separated from others in secret - have been a staple of governments for centuries, during the 1900s and the [[globalisation]] that occurred in it, many prisons to "adapted" to a hardened society, and started taking more liberties in violating prisoners their rights. Early examples of prisons that violated those rights and therefore were being placed strategically out of the public eye pale in comparison with the same concept decades years later in the [[2000s]].
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{{FA|Prison#Secret_Prisons}} - An early history regarding the [[cold war]] and pre-cold war black sites are available on this page.
 
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Although separate areas in a prison - where one would be separated from others in secret - have been a staple of governments for centuries, during the 1900s and the [[globalisation]] that occurred in it, many prisons "adapted" to a hardened society, and started taking more liberties in violating prisoners their rights. Early examples of prisons that violated those rights and therefore were being placed strategically out of the public eye pale in comparison with the same concept decades years later in the [[2000s]]. Starting with the [[war on drugs]] around [[Nixon]]'s administration - which later was joined by the [[war on terror]] around [[1979]] - the highly specialized methods of intelligence agencies utilizing these sites have evolved the term secret prisons into the more specialized term of "black sites".
 
 
====Soviet Union====
 
[[Vladimir Lenin]] brought back forced labor of [[political]] prisoners in labor camps from [[1918]]<ref>http://www.bucknell.edu/x17601.xml</ref><ref>https://www.history.com/topics/russia/gulag</ref>, the "Main Directorate of Camps" internationally now known as GULAG became a system extensively utilized by the [[Soviet Union]]. Although [[Nikita Khrushchev]] had denounced the system of Soviet [[totalitarianism]] these prison camps were a product of after [[Josef Stalin]] died, Khrushchev secret speech denouncing it was silenced<ref>https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/memory-political-repression-post-soviet-russia-example-gulag.html</ref> and prevented from being widely published. [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] and his [[1973]] book '''The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation'''' became the first of an intensive raw and brutal series of insights into the system of these secret sites, which caused it to be picked up by the public, becoming a widely used tool in [[propaganda]] by [[Shin Bet]] and the US and [[Russian]] TV well into the [[2000s]].<ref>https://www.amazon.com/50-Politics-Classics-Freedom-Equality-ebook/dp/B00WDDQW7W</ref><ref>http://tvkultura.ru/brand/show/brand_id/32856</ref>. The [[KGB]] had confiscated many of Solzhenitsyn's gathered information from [[1959]] until [[1967]] and tried to delete all traces of drafts of the book during the [[Cold war]], [[assassinating]] several holders of reserve master copies of the book.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=r73fmcC5itkC&pg</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=5yYBZ35HPo4C&dq</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html</ref>
 
 
 
 
 
===World War 2===
 
In [[1939]], the [[British]] [[War]] Office sequestered a mansion in [[London]] (owned by a friend of Winston Churchill named Philip Sassoon) called Trent Park<ref>https://www.historynet.com/secret-luxury-prison-trent-park-helped-the-brits-spy-on-nazi-generals.htm</ref> for “special purposes,” with no comment further made on why or what would be conducted there. The site - a mansion in fine condition - houses [[Adolf Hitler]]’s captured generals<ref>https://www.trentparkhouse.org.uk/latest-news/who-were-the-german-generals</ref>, [[POWs]] and other [[military officials]] that were captured on the [[African]] or [[European]] continent. The mansion was nowhere classified as a prison or internment camp, and after brief interrogation, many generals were treated exceptionally well in the mansion, being able to go daily hiking around the perimeter and getting gifted expensive drinks, not realizing the building was in fact a government non-declared prison where every room was bugged from top to bottom. In [[2010]] the [[BBC]] revealed dozens of protocols and several bombings were ordered because of information gained in Trent Park.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txmkk</ref>
 
 
 
The success of the plan led to other plans such as Operation Epsilon - where [[Nazi]]-[[scientists]] who were responsible for [[The Nazi atom bomb programme]] were placed in a different mansion.<ref>https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/77911</ref>
 
The [[US]] had their similar own secret prison called "P. O. Box 1142<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20060821231648/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14431095</ref>", after the mailing address, a separated section of an [[US Army]] base in [[Virginia]]. This US secret [[prison]] formed the basis of [[Operation Paperclip]], where the Nazis who were brought in by the US would form and lead new US top-secret [[military]] science projects, although being sought for [[war crimes]] in ally-occupied [[Germany]].
 
 
 
  
===Cold War===
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===Australia===
Up until the late-stage golden age of [[TV]], which occurred somewhere in the 1990s in the west<ref>https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwikgPuYuqXvAhVHyaQKHRnIAJUQFjAFegQIEBAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikiwand.com%2Fen%2FGolden_Age_of_Television_(2000s%25E2%2580%2593present)&usg=AOvVaw1akOqV89PvQ3fgr3nnd0zI</ref>, many prison camps fit the term for black sites as [[social media]], cable-TV & intercontinental travel weren't as normal as in the [[2000s]] and journalists simply couldn't report these locations. Many countries and entities have utilized prison camps for engaging in numerous illegal activities, often during war-time, including [[rape]], [[abduction]], [[illegal drug trade]] & experimental [[research]]-projects.
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{{FA|Australia/1975 coup d'état}}
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Pine Gap <ref>http://www.defence.gov.au/defencemagazine/editions/200708_03/</ref> is the commonly used name for a US [[satellite]] [[surveillance]] base in the Northern Territory, operated by [[Australia]] and the United States.<ref>https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/the-base-pine-gaps-role-in-us-warfighting/8813604/</ref>
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The station is run by CIA, [[NSA]] & the [[National Underwater Reconnaissance Office]] and is a vital part of the [[ECHELON]]-Program.
  
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===Chile===
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[[Amnesty International]], the [[US Senate]] and the [[Chilean]] Truth and Reconciliation Commission<ref>http://www.usip.org/files/resources/collections/truth_commissions/Chile90-Report/Chile90-Report.pdf</ref> described the Esmeralda BE-43 ship as a "floating prison" for political prisoners of the [[Augusto Pinochet]]-administration from [[1973]] to [[1980]]. with at least over hundred individuals held without trial and tortured, including foreign nationals. It was known as the "torture centre" among political dissidents. To this day, the ship is used by the Chilean [[Navy]] and met with dozens of protests by Chilean exiles every time it comes to shore in foreign waters.<ref>https://www.malkin-71.net/news/uk/this-britain/unwanted-protests-keep-pinochet-s-torture-ship-out-of-britain-95841.html</ref>
  
====Australia====
 
{{FA|Australia/1975 coup d'état}}
 
Pine Gap (Since 1988, Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG); previously, known as Joint Defence Space Research Facility<ref>http://www.defence.gov.au/defencemagazine/editions/200708_03/</ref>) is the commonly used name for a US [[satellite]] [[surveillance]] base and Australian [[earth]] station in the Northern Territory, operated by [[Australia]] and the United States.<ref>https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/the-base-pine-gaps-role-in-us-warfighting/8813604/</ref>
 
 
The station is run by Australian operatives in joint operation with the CIA, [[NSA]] & the [[US National Reconnaissance Office]] and is a vital part of the [[ECHELON]]-Program.
 
[[Gough Whitlam]], the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, was removed in a [[coup]], trying to close the base.
 
 
 
====Chile====
 
[[Amnesty International]], the [[US Senate]] and the [[Chilean]] Truth and Reconciliation Commission<ref>http://www.usip.org/files/resources/collections/truth_commissions/Chile90-Report/Chile90-Report.pdf</ref> described the Esmeralda BE-43 ship as a "floating prison" for political prisoners of the [[Augusto Pinochet]]-administration from [[1973]] to [[1980]]. with at least over hundred individuals held without trial and tortured, including foreign nationals. It was known as the "torture center" among political dissidents. To this day, the ship is used by the Chilean [[Navy]] and met with dozens of protests by Chilean exiles every time it comes to shore in foreign waters.<ref>https://www.malkin-71.net/news/uk/this-britain/unwanted-protests-keep-pinochet-s-torture-ship-out-of-britain-95841.html</ref>
 
 
 
====Vietnam====
 
After the fall of [[Saigon]] on April 30, [[1975]], over 100,000s were rounded up in re-education camps to "learn about the ways of the new government" although never tried, judged, or convicted of any crime<ref>http://www.generalhieu.com/foot-lvhung.htm</ref>. After these camps were reported on by the western NGOs and media, the [[Hanoi]] government defended the reeducation camps by placing the [[enemy image]] "[[war criminal]]" on the prisoners. A [[1981]] memorandum of the Socialist Republic of [[Vietnam]] to Amnesty International claimed that all those in the reeducation camps were guilty of acts of national treason as defined in Article 3 of the 30 October [[1967]] Law on Counter-revolutionary Crimes (enacted for the government of North Vietnam), which specifies punishments ranging from 20 years to life in prison or the death penalty. However, it was instead allowing the prisoners to experience "reeducation". A book from [[1995]] revealed the CIA actually intervened and attempted to steer public opinion by - among other tactics - revealing data gathered by a team of 650 CIA case officers operating in Vietnam, [[Laos]] and [[Cambodia]] to [[NGOs]] as [[Amnesty International]].<ref>https://books.google.nl/books/about/Shadow_War.html?id=ys-KQgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y</ref> The [[CIA/Black Budget]] regarding the golden triangle, and allegations of supporting [[drug trafficking]] with Taiwan's [[Chiang Kai-shek]] utilizing fertile fields stretching to [[Myanmar]], setting up an NSA [[mass surveillance]] center (according to [[Edward Snowden]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131102170628/http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/8646-us-embassy-in-yangon-a-secret-listening-post-snowden.html</ref>) and a [[chemical weapons]] facility remains a silent matter.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/03/opinion/IHT-the-cia-drug-connectionis-as-old-as-the-agency.html</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/0307389006</ref><ref>http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb423/docs/11.%20special%20weapons.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/30/us-embassy-cables-burma-myitsone-dam</ref>.
 
 
 
 
====Europe====
 
The [[Kosovo War]] for example included many "ad hoc" prison camps where spontaneous rape<ref>https://yuhistorija.com/wars_91_99_txt01c4.html</ref>, [[murder]]<ref>https://balkaninsight.com/2020/11/04/homeland-frontline-inside-serbias-prison-camps-for-war-captives/</ref>, and [[genocide]] took place, with many of the victims murdered and buried and the perpetrators never been found.<ref>https://culturacolectiva.com/photography/secret-bosnian-prison-camp-photos</ref>.
 
 
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The setting up of an NSA [[mass surveillance]] center there (according to [[Edward Snowden]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131102170628/http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/8646-us-embassy-in-yangon-a-secret-listening-post-snowden.html</ref>) and a [[chemical weapons]] facility remains a silent matter.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/03/opinion/IHT-the-cia-drug-connectionis-as-old-as-the-agency.html</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/0307389006</ref><ref>http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb423/docs/11.%20special%20weapons.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/30/us-embassy-cables-burma-myitsone-dam</ref>.
  
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====Europe====
[[Nevada]] is home to "Area 51", the common name of a highly classified US Air Force airfield and test location officially called Homey Airport (KXTA) or Groom Lake (after the salt flat situated next to its airfield). The place is steeped in history with [[UFO]] sightings (stimulated by spooks such as [[Ulius Amoss]]<ref>https://d-state-research.com/home/aliens-over-gibson-island-ulius-amoss/</ref> and [[W. Stuart Symington]]<ref>https://d-state-research.com/home/senator-stuart-symington-and-the-sale-of-fort-monmouth-secrets-look-theres-a-ufo/</ref>) that has caused virtually all theories regarding the need for such secrecy to be just "[[conspiracy theories]]", nevertheless in [[2013]], the CIA released an official history of the U-2 and OXCART projects from the [[1950s]] up until the [[1970s]] which acknowledged the existence of Area 51 in response to a [[FOIA]] request submitted in [[2005]].<ref>http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/</ref> In 2012, a [[BBC]] crew who attempted to walk past security "watching TV" and enter the base was held a gunpoint, detained for 12 hours, while the [[FBI]] took their equipment, told the crew "that this incident was so serious that [[Washington]] had to call [[London]] to advise that 12 'Brits' had just breached security at America's most top-secret military base and that we all were at one point going to jail for six months", and that they escaped the punishment named "make you disappear and your body will never be found"<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216077/BBC-film-crew-held-gunpoint-trying-failing-sneak-U-S-Area-51-military-base.html</ref>, being tailed by FBI for the remainder of their stay in the US, raising questions what is happening there.
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The [[Kosovo War]] for example included many "ad hoc" prison camps where spontaneous rape<ref>https://yuhistorija.com/wars_91_99_txt01c4.html</ref>, [[murder]]<ref>https://balkaninsight.com/2020/11/04/homeland-frontline-inside-serbias-prison-camps-for-war-captives/</ref>, and [[genocide]] took place, with many of the victims murdered and buried and the perpetrators never been found.<ref>https://culturacolectiva.com/photography/secret-bosnian-prison-camp-photos</ref>.
 
 
In the [[2010s]] several websites hosted by [[US]] [[military]]-veterans accused the [[US Air Force]] [[black projects]] developed in Nevada as responsible for the "black triangle planes" sighted in the US. The spotted triangles would belong to the "TR-3B Aurora Anti-Gravity Spacecraft".<ref>https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjwnKCGu6XvAhUMyqQKHeOjBBAQFjACegQIBxAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archives.gov%2Fresearch%2Fmilitary%2Fair-force%2Fufos&usg=AOvVaw0veayYFgGOmZcYGKAJJtnT</ref><ref>https://www.military.com/video/aircraft/military-aircraft/tr-3b-aurora-anti-gravity-spacecrafts/2860314511001</ref>
 
 
 
=====California=====
 
Alcatraz was already known for decades, if not more in the 1950s but the prison in fact housed several political and foreign dissidents that were placed there specifically because of the "silence rule<ref>https://books.google.nl/books?id=ObIQUpJxHZYC&pg=PA227&dq=alcatraz+silence+rule&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=alcatraz%20silence%20rule&f=false</ref>" reported by dozens of prisoners. Communicating between prisoners was completely forbidden and met with severe violent consequences. Spooks like [[Morton Sobell]] - who was sent there in the 1960s - had no chance of communicating whatsoever with unknown [[handlers]], with other politically high-profile individuals getting to see new (for that time) methods of security apart from the violent crackdowns as the prison was noted to "not have any public oversight, both geographically and politically.". After the closing of Alcatraz, USP Marion was created as a high-tech replacement for Alcatraz, and 500 of its prisoners were transferred there. A new prison regime with the vague, name of "CARE" was implemented, which later became the "Control Unit". In [[1990]], former warden Ralph Arron told [[Mother Jones]] that “The purpose of the Marion Control Unit is to control revolutionary attitudes in the prison system and the society at large". recalling the government even requested more severe<ref>https://ideas.ted.com/a-brief-history-of-secret-prisons-in-the-united-states/</ref> prison regimes. These regimes became the basis of the new US national Supermax-prisons.<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne8bpd/from-the-alcatraz-of-the-rockies-to-the-streets</ref>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
=====Kentucky=====
 
The High-Security Unit in the federal women’s prison of the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, [[Kentucky]], was created in [[1986]] to place political prisoners belonging to any organization that, according to the Bureau of Prisons, “attempts to disrupt or overthrow the government of the U.S." The '''HSU''' in fact, was nothing more than 16 individuals' isolation cells separately build and placed from the prison itself.<ref>https://www.amazon.nl/Criminal-Injustice-Confronting-Prison-Crisis/dp/0896085392 P.322</ref>
 
Within two years, the prison was shut down after media coverage<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/29766384?seq=1</ref>. In secret the prison made the women live in constant artificial lights 24 hours a day, without any personal property and with a camera and visual surveillance every minute. Contact with the world was severely limited and visits restricted. There were frequent cavity searches done by male guards considered "constant sexual harassment" by prisoners. The women were also subjected to tests such as waking them every hour during the night, or every half hour after several complained. The [[American Civil Liberties Union]] later concluded the goal of the prison was "ideological conversion", as the regime was deemed not proportional at all.<ref>https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3D91F3BF934A25754C0A96E948260</ref>
 
 
 
  
 
====Asia====
 
====Asia====
In the 2010s, corporate media has begun focusing on [[China]] after the Chinese decided to ramp up mass incarnation centers after the [[2014 Kunming attack]]. North Korea was also under the scope of the US and noted by [[Barack Obama]] to be the first thing he confessed to Donald [[Trump]]<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/us/politics/trump-obama-north-korea.html</ref> to be addressed as it kept him up at night that he was preparing to bomb [[Pyongyang]]. Commercially-controlled media noticed China and North Korea had the unique advantage of "[[assassinating]]<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html</ref> or eliminating" all US spooks working there, seemingly paving the way for a new [[Cold War 2.0]].<ref>https://www.maplecroft.com/insights/analysis/apac-on-the-front-line-of-cold-war-2-0/</ref>
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In the 2010s, corporate media has begun focusing on [[China]] after the Chinese decided to ramp up mass incarnation centers after the [[2014 Kunming Attack]]. North Korea was also under the scope of the US and noted by [[Barack Obama]] to be the first thing he confessed to Donald [[Trump]]<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/us/politics/trump-obama-north-korea.html</ref> to be addressed as it kept him up at night that he was preparing to bomb [[Pyongyang]].
Both countries are rumored and were heavily reported with detailed satellite<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y0yhV6IT7o</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K_V9_Sdt2I</ref> images guided by corporate media pundits in the beginning of the [[2020s]] to be running black sites for all kinds of purposes if not reclaiming land, building underground military bases or just raping and [[murdering]] [[activists]], being called "modern concentration camps".<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grgQuc4P7EE</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=132PPa_hCxk</ref>
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Both countries are rumoured and were heavily reported with detailed satellite<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y0yhV6IT7o</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K_V9_Sdt2I</ref> images guided by corporate media pundits in the beginning of the [[2020s]] to be running black sites for all kinds of purposes if not reclaiming land, building underground military bases or just raping and [[murdering]] [[activists]], being called "modern concentration camps".<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grgQuc4P7EE</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=132PPa_hCxk</ref>
 
 
  
 
==CIA Continental Program==
 
==CIA Continental Program==
[[File:CIABLACKSITE.jpg|600px|thumb|right|An incomplete map of participating countries. Although the case was reported dozens of times by corporate media, this incomplete map has a rather interesting source ([[George Soros]] his [[Open Society Foundations]]), hinting a [[modified limited hangout]]?]]
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{{FA|CIA/Torture}}
Like with many illegal activities (see [[CIA/Black budget]]), the CIA began to emerge as a new trendsetter and black site kingpin during the [[2000s]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/11/02/cia-holds-terror-suspects-in-secret-prisons/767f0160-cde4-41f2-a691-ba989990039c/</ref>
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[[File:Screenshot 2021-03-10 What the CIA Did to Its Detainees(1).png|600px|thumb|left|This [[PBS]] [[Frontline]] article is highly recommended: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-the-cia-tortured-its-detainees/.]]
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Like with many illegal intra governmental activities (see [[CIA/Black budget]]), the CIA began to emerge as a new trendsetter and black site kingpin during the [[2000s]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/11/02/cia-holds-terror-suspects-in-secret-prisons/767f0160-cde4-41f2-a691-ba989990039c/</ref>
 
The groundwork was set in the 1990s as the CIA was granted permission to use an extraordinary rendition of indicted terrorists to American soil in a [[1995]] presidential directive signed by President [[Bill Clinton]], following a procedure established by [[George H. W. Bus]]h in January 1993.<ref>https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm</ref><ref>https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsd/index.html</ref>
 
The groundwork was set in the 1990s as the CIA was granted permission to use an extraordinary rendition of indicted terrorists to American soil in a [[1995]] presidential directive signed by President [[Bill Clinton]], following a procedure established by [[George H. W. Bus]]h in January 1993.<ref>https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm</ref><ref>https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsd/index.html</ref>
 
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The [[Washington Post]] was the first to report on "secret prisons" being run in "metal containers" in Bagram Air Force base, [[Afghanistan]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/12/26/us-decries-abuse-but-defends-interrogations/737a4096-2cf0-40b9-8a9f-7b22099d733d/</ref>
The Washington Post was the first to report on "secret prisons" being run in "metal containers" in Bagram Air Force base, [[Afghanistan]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/12/26/us-decries-abuse-but-defends-interrogations/737a4096-2cf0-40b9-8a9f-7b22099d733d/</ref> This and a report by The Guardian naming [[Guantanamo Bay]]<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1169147,00.html</ref> were kept surprisingly silent by [[corporate media]].
 
 
 
After the Washington Post released a new article in 2005, George W. Bush tried to silence criticism into... going to war with [[Iraq]] [[2003]] after a group of [[Saudi]]'s, [[Lebanese]] and [[Egyptians]], financed by an officially ''former'' [[Saudi]] operative living in [[Afghanistan]] and sheltered by [[Pakistan]] attacked the US, now known as the [[9/11 hijackers]]. When being confronted with claims by [[The Washington Post]] that the CIA set up a global secret prison program, Bush responded to the media in [[Panama]] in [[2005]] was that the US does not [[torture]]. Although Bush continued his speech with suspicious hard-talk, it largely went unquestioned at the time.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4415132.stm</ref>
 
Surprisingly in September [[2006]], Bush acknowledged the black sites with what the [[BBC]] called "making a limited disclosure of the CIA program because interrogation of the men it held was now complete and because a [[US Supreme Court]] decision had stopped the use of military commissions for trials.",<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5321606.stm</ref> along with announcing a black site along with it where most were being brought to [[Guantanamo Bay]]. The [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] announced a report after getting in contact with some former detainees after their trip to ''GizMo'', forwarding that report also to the Bush administration.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20090419152929/http://www.nybooks.com/icrc-report.pdf</ref> The report was noted by [[New York Times]] writer [[Mark Danner]] for its [[Orwellian language]], highlighting naming the interrogating methods as "Alternative set of procedures", revealing confidential interviews of [[Abu Zubaydah]], Walid bin Attash and [[Khalid Shaikh Mohammed]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15danner.html</ref>
 
 
 
 
[[Patrick Leahy]] and [[John Conyers]], [[John D. Rockefeller IV]], wrote to attorney general [[Peter D. Keisler]], requesting all info on interrogation since 2004. Bush kept denying the program to included anything else than "U.S. law and our international obligations."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/washington/05cnd-torture.html</ref>
 
[[Patrick Leahy]] and [[John Conyers]], [[John D. Rockefeller IV]], wrote to attorney general [[Peter D. Keisler]], requesting all info on interrogation since 2004. Bush kept denying the program to included anything else than "U.S. law and our international obligations."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/washington/05cnd-torture.html</ref>
  
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Romanian Secret Service connected a continental [[paedophile]] network, with the US [[lobbyists]] involved, but that investigation was met with a [[cover up]] after convicting one person, who remained silent on the matter.<ref>https://www.nasul.tv/bomba-iohannis-a-numit-director-adjunct-la-sri-un-personaj-implicat-in-afacerea-nato-trafic-de-droguri-din-columbia-misterioasa-femeie-din-afacerea-exploziva-si-nasii-pedofilului-american-din-iasi/</ref><ref>https://www.activenews.ro/stiri-politic/Numire-controversata.-Sotia-unui-adjunct-SRI-ar-fi-fost-implicata-intr-o-afacere-cu-trafic-de-droguri-din-Columbia-135270</ref> One [[US]] official - a known historian and close friend of Ioan Talpes - working in Romania, abused at least two girls aged 10 and 13 ''in the house of the Romanian intelligence service''.<ref>https://hnn.us/roundup/entries/35929.html</ref>
 
Romanian Secret Service connected a continental [[paedophile]] network, with the US [[lobbyists]] involved, but that investigation was met with a [[cover up]] after convicting one person, who remained silent on the matter.<ref>https://www.nasul.tv/bomba-iohannis-a-numit-director-adjunct-la-sri-un-personaj-implicat-in-afacerea-nato-trafic-de-droguri-din-columbia-misterioasa-femeie-din-afacerea-exploziva-si-nasii-pedofilului-american-din-iasi/</ref><ref>https://www.activenews.ro/stiri-politic/Numire-controversata.-Sotia-unui-adjunct-SRI-ar-fi-fost-implicata-intr-o-afacere-cu-trafic-de-droguri-din-Columbia-135270</ref> One [[US]] official - a known historian and close friend of Ioan Talpes - working in Romania, abused at least two girls aged 10 and 13 ''in the house of the Romanian intelligence service''.<ref>https://hnn.us/roundup/entries/35929.html</ref>
 
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===Cooperation===
 
===Cooperation===
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The February 26 - March 4, [[2005]], edition of [[Ireland]]'s Village magazine, featured an article titled "Abductions via Shannon" which revealed [[Dublin]] and Shannon airports in Ireland were "used by the CIA to abduct suspects in its [[war on terror]]". naming a [[Boeing]] 737 (registration number N313P, later reregistered N4476S) utilizing the airports on at least 81 occasions.<ref>https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjns9ms2KXvAhUSG-wKHZ7CAfwQFjAAegQIARAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Frendition-aircraft-used-irish-airports-amnesty-1.1034082&usg=AOvVaw1gK1Vq45HMpDcGQYeWpog_</ref> According to the article, the same aircraft landed in Guantanamo Bay on September 23, 2003.
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The February 26 - March 4, [[2005]], edition of [[Ireland]]'s Village magazine, featured an article titled "Abductions via Shannon" which revealed [[Dublin]] and Shannon airports in Ireland were "used by the CIA to abduct suspects in its [[war on terror]]". naming a [[Boeing]] 737 (registration number N313P, later re-registered N4476S) utilizing the airports on at least 81 occasions.<ref>https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjns9ms2KXvAhUSG-wKHZ7CAfwQFjAAegQIARAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Frendition-aircraft-used-irish-airports-amnesty-1.1034082&usg=AOvVaw1gK1Vq45HMpDcGQYeWpog_</ref> According to the article, the same aircraft landed in Guantanamo Bay on September 23, 2003.
  
When Human Right's Watch and the International Committee of the Red Cross jumped on the stories which caused some publications in media and they began publically requesting access to individuals being abducted, EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini announced in November 2005 that any country found to be complicit could lose their right to vote in the council.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/archive/eu-warns-consequences-if-cia-prisons-found-member-states</ref>. The [[New Yorker]] released an article confirming the allegations of extreme torture to be correct, naming them a new variant of the [[Phoenix Program]], with these mostly [[Arab]] and [[Muslim]] individuals to be subjected by CIA officers to be keeping prisoners naked indefinitely and photographing them naked to degrade and humiliate them, and forcibly administering [[drugs]] by suppositories, even killing multiple children abducted from the streets that died of things like hypothermia, with the techniques being called "retired and brought back to be perfected [[Cold War]]-methods" comparing them to the [[Copper Green]]-[[black project]], with the CIA officers involved to "have taken out professional liability [[insurance]], fearing that they could be criminally prosecuted if what they have already done became public knowledge<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=1</ref>".
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When Human Right's Watch and the International Committee of the Red Cross jumped on the stories which caused some publications in media and they began publicly requesting access to individuals being abducted, EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini announced in November 2005 that any country found to be complicit could lose their right to vote in the council.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/archive/eu-warns-consequences-if-cia-prisons-found-member-states</ref>. The [[New Yorker]] released an article confirming the allegations of extreme torture to be correct, naming them a new variant of the [[Phoenix Program]], with these mostly [[Arab]] and [[Muslim]] individuals to be subjected by CIA officers to be keeping prisoners naked indefinitely and photographing them naked to degrade and humiliate them, and forcibly administering [[drugs]] by suppositories, even killing multiple children abducted from the streets that died of things like hypothermia, with the techniques being called "retired and brought back to be perfected [[Cold War]]-methods" comparing them to the [[Copper Green]]-[[black project]], with the CIA officers involved to "have taken out professional liability [[insurance]], fearing that they could be criminally prosecuted if what they have already done became public knowledge<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=1</ref>".
  
 
Dozens of local [[magazines]] began to report sightings of CIA aircraft as well. In 2005 [[Spanish]] paper [[El País]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20060301012114/http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elpepinac/20051116elpepinac_3/Tes/Canarias%20pide%20explicaciones%20sobre%20las%20escalas%20de%20vuelos%20de%20la%20CIA%20en%20Tenerife</ref> reported that CIA planes had landed in the Canary Islands and in Palma de Mallorca, in 2006 [[French]] paper [[Le Figaro]] reported a prosecutor investigated two CIA planes that had landed in France <ref>http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20060302.FIG000000200_la_france_enquete_sur_les_avions_de_la_cia.html</ref>, In [[2007]], [[Portuguese]] general prosecutor Cândida Almeida, head of the Central Investigation and Penal Action Department (DCIAP), announced an investigation of "torture or inhuman and cruel treatment", prompted by allegations of "illegal activities and serious human rights violations" made by MEP Ana Gomes to the attorney general, with Visão magazine journalist Rui Costa Pinto (who had an article pulled by his employer even after writing an book about it) testifying before the DCIAP about flights passing through Lajes Field airbase, revealing at least 150 instances of CIA planes using Portugal. <ref>Visão magazine journalist Rui Costa Pinto also testified before the DCIAP. He had written an article, rejected by the magazine, about flights passing through Lajes Field in the Azores, a Portuguese airbase used by the U.S. Air Force</ref><ref>http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/feb/03cia-portugal.htm</ref><ref>https://www.fnac.pt/Voos-Secretos-CIA-Rui-Costa-Pinto/a251565</ref><ref>http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/oct/04portugal-cia-gomes.htm</ref>
 
Dozens of local [[magazines]] began to report sightings of CIA aircraft as well. In 2005 [[Spanish]] paper [[El País]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20060301012114/http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elpepinac/20051116elpepinac_3/Tes/Canarias%20pide%20explicaciones%20sobre%20las%20escalas%20de%20vuelos%20de%20la%20CIA%20en%20Tenerife</ref> reported that CIA planes had landed in the Canary Islands and in Palma de Mallorca, in 2006 [[French]] paper [[Le Figaro]] reported a prosecutor investigated two CIA planes that had landed in France <ref>http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20060302.FIG000000200_la_france_enquete_sur_les_avions_de_la_cia.html</ref>, In [[2007]], [[Portuguese]] general prosecutor Cândida Almeida, head of the Central Investigation and Penal Action Department (DCIAP), announced an investigation of "torture or inhuman and cruel treatment", prompted by allegations of "illegal activities and serious human rights violations" made by MEP Ana Gomes to the attorney general, with Visão magazine journalist Rui Costa Pinto (who had an article pulled by his employer even after writing an book about it) testifying before the DCIAP about flights passing through Lajes Field airbase, revealing at least 150 instances of CIA planes using Portugal. <ref>Visão magazine journalist Rui Costa Pinto also testified before the DCIAP. He had written an article, rejected by the magazine, about flights passing through Lajes Field in the Azores, a Portuguese airbase used by the U.S. Air Force</ref><ref>http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/feb/03cia-portugal.htm</ref><ref>https://www.fnac.pt/Voos-Secretos-CIA-Rui-Costa-Pinto/a251565</ref><ref>http://www.statewatch.org/news/2006/oct/04portugal-cia-gomes.htm</ref>
  
[[Swiss]] newspaper Sonntagsblick published fax intercepted sent by the Egyptian embassy in [[London]] to the government of [[Egypt]] stating that 23 [[Iraqi]] and Afghan citizens were interrogated at Mihail Kogălniceanu base near [[Constanța]], [[Romania]], with the same document acknowledging similar black sites existent in [[Bulgaria]], [[Kosovo]], [[Macedonia]], and [[Ukraine]].
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[[Swiss]] newspaper Sonntagsblick published fax intercepted sent by the Egyptian embassy in [[London]] to the government of [[Egypt]] stating that 23 [[Iraqi]] and Afghan citizens were interrogated at Mihail Kogălniceanu base near Constanța, [[Romania]], with the same document acknowledging similar black sites existent in [[Bulgaria]], [[Kosovo]], [[Macedonia]], and [[Ukraine]].
The Swiss government denied the document to be accurate, but nonetheless started a lawsuit for leakage of classified documents against Sonntagsblick in 2006.  
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The Swiss government denied the document to be accurate but nonetheless started a lawsuit for leakage of classified documents against Sonntagsblick in 2006.  
  
 
In 2012, [[Poland]]'s Prosecutor General's office initiated investigative proceedings against [[Zbigniew Siemiątkowski]], the former Polish intelligence chief, charging him with facilitating operations illegal on the order of the CIA.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/9169366/Poland-ex-spy-boss-charged-over-alleged-CIA-secret-prison.html</ref>
 
In 2012, [[Poland]]'s Prosecutor General's office initiated investigative proceedings against [[Zbigniew Siemiątkowski]], the former Polish intelligence chief, charging him with facilitating operations illegal on the order of the CIA.<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/9169366/Poland-ex-spy-boss-charged-over-alleged-CIA-secret-prison.html</ref>
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[[Kazakhstan]], [[Lithuania]], [[Hungary]], [[Latvia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Georgia]], [[Armenia]], [[Romania]], [[Czechia]], [[Cyprus]] & [[Island]] were reported to also be part of the CIA's Post 9-11 Black site rendition program.<ref>http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d874f262-817d-11da-8b55-0000779e2340.html</ref>
 
[[Kazakhstan]], [[Lithuania]], [[Hungary]], [[Latvia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Georgia]], [[Armenia]], [[Romania]], [[Czechia]], [[Cyprus]] & [[Island]] were reported to also be part of the CIA's Post 9-11 Black site rendition program.<ref>http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d874f262-817d-11da-8b55-0000779e2340.html</ref>
Some rendition aircraft ended in countries without an alledged black site, raising questions if there are black sites not uncovered.
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Some rendition aircraft ended in countries without an alleged black site, raising questions if there are black sites not uncovered.
  
  
 
====Asia====
 
====Asia====
 
Countries named in reports have included, [[Thailand]] (it was named as a station of [[CIA/Director]] [[Gina Haspel]]<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43496212</ref>), Afghanistan<ref>http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/afghanistan/saltpit.htm</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-prison.html</ref> (where all parties have been accused of running black sites, with the US army handing out a memo ordering soldiers to stay silent about the [[Taliban]] raping<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html</ref> little boys whom the soldiers would hear crying from their base) and [[Yemen]] (where some just vanish if not raped before that<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/yemen-sexual-abuse-uae-run-jails-prisoners-allegations</ref>).
 
Countries named in reports have included, [[Thailand]] (it was named as a station of [[CIA/Director]] [[Gina Haspel]]<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43496212</ref>), Afghanistan<ref>http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/afghanistan/saltpit.htm</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-prison.html</ref> (where all parties have been accused of running black sites, with the US army handing out a memo ordering soldiers to stay silent about the [[Taliban]] raping<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-told-to-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html</ref> little boys whom the soldiers would hear crying from their base) and [[Yemen]] (where some just vanish if not raped before that<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/yemen-sexual-abuse-uae-run-jails-prisoners-allegations</ref>).
Donald Trump's administration started in [[2018]] with the [[US-China trade war]].
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[[Hong Kong]], [[Indonesia]], [[Jordan]], [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Kuwait]] were also named.  
[[Hong Kong]], [[Indonesia]], Jordan, [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Kuwait]] were also named.  
 
  
  
 
====Africa====
 
====Africa====
[[Marocco]], [[Somalia]]<ref>https://harpers.org/2011/07/the-cias-secret-prison-in-somalia/</ref>, [[Libya]]<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/13/world/main1121577.shtml</ref>,[[Egypt]] & [[Djibouti]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20060410110010/http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGUSA20060404001</ref> were named as new popular destinations in [[2008]] at the end of the Bush administration for running black sites.<ref>https://archive.today/20120629224315/http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/currentaffairs/region/internationalorganisations/eur051125?view=Standard</ref>
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[[Morocco]], [[Somalia]]<ref>https://harpers.org/2011/07/the-cias-secret-prison-in-somalia/</ref>, [[Libya]]<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/13/world/main1121577.shtml</ref>,[[Egypt]] & [[Djibouti]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20060410110010/http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGUSA20060404001</ref> were named as new popular destinations in [[2008]] at the end of the Bush administration for running black sites.<ref>https://archive.today/20120629224315/http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/currentaffairs/region/internationalorganisations/eur051125?view=Standard</ref>
 
[[Mauritania]], [[South Africa]] & others were also included.
 
[[Mauritania]], [[South Africa]] & others were also included.
  
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|text=They always followed the same procedure. We were always told to keep away. The planes would stay at the end of the runway, often with their engines running. A couple of [[military]] vans from the nearby intelligence base would go up to them, stay a while and then drive off, out of the airport.
 
|text=They always followed the same procedure. We were always told to keep away. The planes would stay at the end of the runway, often with their engines running. A couple of [[military]] vans from the nearby intelligence base would go up to them, stay a while and then drive off, out of the airport.
 
"I saw several of these flights but never saw inside the vans because they had tinted windows and they never stopped at the terminal building
 
"I saw several of these flights but never saw inside the vans because they had tinted windows and they never stopped at the terminal building
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|source_URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6212843.stm
 
|source_URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6212843.stm
 
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===Cover Up===
 
===Cover Up===
 
====EU====
 
====EU====
Although dozens of credible reports revealed ''some'' network to be existent in Europe as well, the EU Committee on Legal Affairs said in 2006 that "At this stage of the investigations, there is no formal, irrefutable evidence of the existence of secret CIA detention centers in Romania, Poland or any other country. Nevertheless, there are many indications from various sources which must be considered reliable, justifying the continuation of the analytical and investigative work".
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Although dozens of credible reports revealed ''some'' network to be existent in Europe as well, the EU Committee on Legal Affairs said in 2006 that "At this stage of the investigations, there is no formal, irrefutable evidence of the existence of secret CIA detention centres in Romania, Poland or any other country. Nevertheless, there are many indications from various sources which must be considered reliable, justifying the continuation of the analytical and investigative work".
  
A report from the [[Council of Europe]] estimated 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA on EU territory (with the cooperation of Council of Europe members), and rendered to other countries, often after having transited through secret detention centers ( called "black sites") used by the CIA, many European countries have denied every taking part in the program. According to a follow-up in a separate report by the [[European Parliament]] report in 2007, the CIA had already made 1,245 flights, naming the activities the black sites participated in was against the United Nations Conventions on Torture.<ref>http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/AdoptedText/ta06/ERES1507.htm</ref>
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A report from the [[Council of Europe]] estimated 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA on EU territory (with the cooperation of Council of Europe members), and rendered to other countries, often after having transited through secret detention centres ( called "black sites") used by the CIA, many European countries have denied every taking part in the program. According to a follow-up in a separate report by the [[European Parliament]] report in 2007, the CIA had already made 1,245 flights, naming the activities the black sites participated in was against the United Nations Conventions on Torture.<ref>http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/AdoptedText/ta06/ERES1507.htm</ref>
  
 
The European Parliament's report, adopted and passed with 53% of the EU MPs in 2007, concluded [[Austria]], [[Belgium]], [[Cyprus]], [[Denmark]], [[Germany]], [[Greece]], Ireland, [[Italy]], Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, [[Sweden]] and the [[United Kingdom]] tolerated illegal actions of the CIA including secret flights over their territories and noted the continental unanimous act of not cooperating with the investigation, with multiple MPs remarking government had to be aware of such a widespread program, calling for the program itself to be ended as it was fundamentally wrong to begin with. The [[IGOs]] of judiciary capital [[The Hague]] stayed silent on prosecuting members as they were busy with [[Bosnia]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/world/report-rejects-european-denial-of-cia-prisons.html</ref> To date the only report the whole EU has agreed on.<ref>https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/536449/IPOL_STU%282015%29536449_EN.pdf</ref><ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6360817.stm</ref>
 
The European Parliament's report, adopted and passed with 53% of the EU MPs in 2007, concluded [[Austria]], [[Belgium]], [[Cyprus]], [[Denmark]], [[Germany]], [[Greece]], Ireland, [[Italy]], Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, [[Sweden]] and the [[United Kingdom]] tolerated illegal actions of the CIA including secret flights over their territories and noted the continental unanimous act of not cooperating with the investigation, with multiple MPs remarking government had to be aware of such a widespread program, calling for the program itself to be ended as it was fundamentally wrong to begin with. The [[IGOs]] of judiciary capital [[The Hague]] stayed silent on prosecuting members as they were busy with [[Bosnia]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/world/report-rejects-european-denial-of-cia-prisons.html</ref> To date the only report the whole EU has agreed on.<ref>https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2015/536449/IPOL_STU%282015%29536449_EN.pdf</ref><ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6360817.stm</ref>
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|text=The European Parliament denounces the lack of co-operation of many member states and of the Council of the European Union with the investigation; Regrets that European countries have been relinquishing control over their airspace and airports by turning a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on some occasions, were being used for illegal transportation of detainees; Calls for the closure of [the US military detention mission in] Guantanamo and for European countries immediately to seek the return of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by the US authorities; Considers that all European countries should initiate independent investigations into all stopovers by civilian aircraft [hired by] the CIA; Urges that a ban or system of inspections be introduced for all CIA-operated aircraft known to have been involved in extraordinary rendition
 
|text=The European Parliament denounces the lack of co-operation of many member states and of the Council of the European Union with the investigation; Regrets that European countries have been relinquishing control over their airspace and airports by turning a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on some occasions, were being used for illegal transportation of detainees; Calls for the closure of [the US military detention mission in] Guantanamo and for European countries immediately to seek the return of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by the US authorities; Considers that all European countries should initiate independent investigations into all stopovers by civilian aircraft [hired by] the CIA; Urges that a ban or system of inspections be introduced for all CIA-operated aircraft known to have been involved in extraordinary rendition
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In 2007, The Washington Post reported that "members of the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]] had requested the withdrawal of the nomination of John A. Rizzo (a popular CIA lwayer) for the position of general counsel, due to concerns about his support for Bush administration legal doctrines permitting "enhanced interrogation of terrorism detainees in CIA custody".<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202353.html</ref>
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In 2007, The Washington Post reported that "members of the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]] had requested the withdrawal of the nomination of John A. Rizzo (a popular CIA lawyer) for the position of general counsel, due to concerns about his support for Bush administration legal doctrines permitting "enhanced interrogation of terrorism detainees in CIA custody".<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202353.html</ref>
 
On December 6, 2007, the CIA admitted that it had destroyed videotapes recordings of CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects involving harsh interrogation techniques, tapes which critics suggest may have documented the use of torture by the CIA, such as waterboarding. The tapes were made in 2002 as part of a secret detention and interrogation program, and were destroyed in November 2005. The reason? According to the CIA "the tapes posed a security risk for the interrogators shown on the tapes", but "had no more intelligence value and were not relevant to any inquiries".<ref>http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/key-omission-in-memo-to-destroy-cia-terror-tapes/</ref>
 
On December 6, 2007, the CIA admitted that it had destroyed videotapes recordings of CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects involving harsh interrogation techniques, tapes which critics suggest may have documented the use of torture by the CIA, such as waterboarding. The tapes were made in 2002 as part of a secret detention and interrogation program, and were destroyed in November 2005. The reason? According to the CIA "the tapes posed a security risk for the interrogators shown on the tapes", but "had no more intelligence value and were not relevant to any inquiries".<ref>http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/key-omission-in-memo-to-destroy-cia-terror-tapes/</ref>
  
[[Robert L. Deitz]], [[Michael Hayden]], and [[Michael Morell]] started a private investigation according to the [[New York Times]] in 2007 on [[Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency]] General [[John L. Helgerson]] who made multiple reports starting from 2004 denouncing the torture. Hayden had succeeded in removing [[Mary O. McCarthy]] (who already had a history not following the goals of the [[military-industrial complex]] causing her to clash with Bill Clinton and half of the agency in [[1998]]) completely in 2006 for as "leaking classified information".<ref>https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2006/04/23/fired-cia-analyst-challenged-data-endorsed-by-her-bosses/</ref>
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[[Robert Deitz]], [[Michael Hayden]], and [[Michael Morell]] started a private investigation according to the [[New York Times]] in 2007 on [[Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency]] General [[John L. Helgerson]] who made multiple reports starting from 2004 denouncing the torture. Hayden had succeeded in removing [[Mary McCarthy]] (who already had a history not following the goals of the [[military-industrial complex]] causing her to clash with Bill Clinton and half of the agency in [[1998]]) completely in 2006 for as "leaking classified information".<ref>https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2006/04/23/fired-cia-analyst-challenged-data-endorsed-by-her-bosses/</ref>
Dozens of US investigations have disappeared or just halted with no politicians prosecuted<ref>https://www.justiceinitiative.org/newsroom/cia-kidnap-and-rendition-case-in-europe-ends-without-investigation</ref>, unlike Europe. Two medical [[psychologists]] were prosecuted in [[2020]], with the Trump administration even publicly announcing conssidering the option to re-open a Black site program in [[2017]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html</ref><ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/two-cia-contractors-successfully-sued-for-black-site-torture/</ref>
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Dozens of US investigations have disappeared or just halted with no politicians prosecuted<ref>https://www.justiceinitiative.org/newsroom/cia-kidnap-and-rendition-case-in-europe-ends-without-investigation</ref>, unlike Europe. Two medical [[psychologists]] were prosecuted in [[2020]], with the Trump administration even publicly announcing considering the option to re-open a Black site program in [[2017]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html</ref><ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/two-cia-contractors-successfully-sued-for-black-site-torture/</ref>
  
  
 
===Diego Garcia===
 
===Diego Garcia===
Diego Garcia is a small island in the [[Indian Ocean]], cleaned of natives and operated by the US since [[1973]] as an ETOPS or Extended Range Twin Engine Operations emergency landing site<ref>https://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Features/2014/04/04/Where-in-the-world-is-Diego-Garcia/</ref> allowing twin-engine commercial airplanes to make theoretical nonstop flights between [[city]] pairs located between [[Africa]], [[Oceania]] and East-[[Asia]]<ref>https://www.emirates247.com/news/diego-garcia-and-mh370-conspiracy-of-a-lost-island-in-middle-of-it-all-2014-04-06-1.544414</ref>. A not connected usage as black site may solve another [[deep event]]: [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 370]] was officially last located between Perth and Diego Garcia. Even though several inhabitants of the [[Maldives]] confessed<ref>https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjFk66R-qXvAhWTHuwKHW_zA4AQFjABegQIAxAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.express.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fweird%2F1133063%2Fmh370-news-indian-ocean-maldives-islanders-unusual-sight-spt&usg=AOvVaw0kjif-z1bS5XBSe7nMm-Iw</ref> seeing a plane with white and blue stripes flying very low on the night of the disappearance towards Diego Garcia, and former airlines-boss Marc Dugain<ref>https://www.france24.com/en/20141218-dugain-malaysia-airlines-mh370-disappearance-diego-garcia-cover-up</ref> was intimated after concluding MH370 shot down near a US military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean after it was hacked, being told by a British [[intelligence agency]] source, who spoke of "risks" and counseled him to "let time do its work", and Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had Diego Garcia as one of his simulated destinations in his Microsoft Flight Simulator (which he deleted until the [[FBI]] found them)<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2584123/Revealed-Malaysian-Airlines-pilot-high-security-US-base-Diego-Garcia-programmed-homemade-flight-simulator-deleted-data-just-taking-control-missing-plane.html</ref> prepared before flying that night, or the fact that the co-pilot attempted a phone call after the official "disappearance" of the plane<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603075/Co-pilot-missing-flight-MH370-desperate-call-mobile-phone-AFTER-aircraft-lost-normal-communication-ground.html</ref>, no member of [[parliament]] in the world has ever brought this theory to a senate.
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[[File:Diego Garcia.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[UK Foreign Secretary]] [[William Hague]] was reported by The Guardian pressured by an alliance of former detainees, an abducted military officer from the [[2011 Attacks on Libya]] and [[NGOs]] to confess Diego Garcia, an island in the [[Indian Ocean]] to be running a [[MI6]] black site.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/13/cia-black-site-diego-garcia-uk-role</ref>.]]
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Diego Garcia is a small island in the [[Indian Ocean]] owned by the [[UK]] and US, cleaned of natives and operated by the US since [[1973]] as an ETOPS or Extended Range Twin Engine Operations emergency landing site<ref>https://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Features/2014/04/04/Where-in-the-world-is-Diego-Garcia/</ref> allowing twin-engine commercial air-planes to make theoretical non-stop flights between [[city]] pairs located between [[Africa]], [[Oceania]] and East-[[Asia]]<ref>https://www.emirates247.com/news/diego-garcia-and-mh370-conspiracy-of-a-lost-island-in-middle-of-it-all-2014-04-06-1.544414</ref>. A not connected usage as black site may solve another [[deep event]]: [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 370]].
 
Diego Garcia, according to Wikileaks is also<ref>https://books.google.nl/books?id=Gp55CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=parliament+diegogarcia+mh370&source=bl&ots=5y1SX-Mx6B&sig=ACfU3U2WK88ORYsVSYqYoafLdGz8W0zRyQ&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBzbia_KXvAhXJCewKHao3B3kQ6AEwDXoECBAQAw#v=onepage&q=parliament%20diegogarcia%20mh370&f=false</ref> used as a storage section for UK [[cluster bombs]] as a way of avoiding UK parliamentary oversight.
 
Diego Garcia, according to Wikileaks is also<ref>https://books.google.nl/books?id=Gp55CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=parliament+diegogarcia+mh370&source=bl&ots=5y1SX-Mx6B&sig=ACfU3U2WK88ORYsVSYqYoafLdGz8W0zRyQ&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjBzbia_KXvAhXJCewKHao3B3kQ6AEwDXoECBAQAw#v=onepage&q=parliament%20diegogarcia%20mh370&f=false</ref> used as a storage section for UK [[cluster bombs]] as a way of avoiding UK parliamentary oversight.
 
[[File:Diego Garcia.jpg|400px|thumb|right|[[UK Foreign Secretary]] [[William Hague]] was reported by The Guardian pressured by an alliance of former detainees, an abducted military officer from the [[2011 Attacks on Libya]] and [[NGOs]] to the confess Diego Garcia, an island in the [[Indian Ocean]] to be running a [[MI6]] black site.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/13/cia-black-site-diego-garcia-uk-role</ref>.]]
 
  
 
==Selective enforment==
 
==Selective enforment==
As part of the effect of the "[[Fake News]]" campaign orchestrated by the media around [[2016]], multiple governments are increasingly utilizing black sites for all kinds of purposes without scrutiny, learning [[citizens]] their party they're aligned within the [[political spectrum]] isn't leading, thereby teaching them a form of [[learned helplessness]], which causes the opposing groups of [[gaslighted]] people to support [[selective enforcement]] (by them or the opposing party in the decision making) during the time their vote in an [[election]] isn't for the winning canidates. This [[polarizing perspective]] has paved the way for black site operating in the vital lands of geo-political importance such as [[Turkey]]<ref>eMNr7BEy-fQ</ref> in [[2016]], Ukraine<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kiev-allows-torture-and-runs-secret-jails-says-un-vwlcrpsjn</ref> since the [[2014 Ukraine Coup]] and Afghanistan with TV-networks making everything that is not China or North Korea a [[third rail topic]].<ref>https://bdnews24.com/world/south-asia/2021/02/28/i-wake-up-and-scream-secret-taliban-prisons-terrorise-thousands
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|caption=While the media stimulates the US public to focus on [[Hollywood]], [[Twitter]] & Trump, [[Democracy Now]] reported in [[2018]] "A major U.S. military and CIA [[military contractor]] has been detaining dozens of [[migrant]] [[children]] inside a vacant [[Arizona]] office building with dark windows, no kitchen, and only a few toilets, according to a new investigation by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Reveal learned about what some are calling the “black site” for migrant children after one local resident filmed children in sweatsuits being led into the building. The building was leased in March by MVM, a defence contractor that Reveal reports has received nearly $250 million in contracts to transport immigrant children since 2014<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yZwApmbJVI</ref>."
Another good example of this is the admission of a former [[Guantanamo Bay]] staff sergeant and ex-marine who publicly admitted the [[official narrative]] to be bullocks.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/books/guantanamo-guard-cia-killed-prisoners-and-made-it-look-like-suicide/news-story/f5de6037146516c18c259dab07068f2f</ref>
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The news was very sporadically reported in legacy media, TV-stations focussed on new [[wars]] and frozen conflicts part of the [[Permanent war mentality]] instead.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2015_January_16</ref>
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An former [[Guantanamo Bay]] staff sergeant and ex-marine publicly admitted the [[official narrative]] to be bullocks.<ref>https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/books/guantanamo-guard-cia-killed-prisoners-and-made-it-look-like-suicide/news-story/f5de6037146516c18c259dab07068f2f</ref>
  
 
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|text=They would have had to all three tie their hands and feet together, shove rags down their throats, put a mask over their face, made a noose, hung it from the ceiling on the side of the cellblock, jumped into the noose, and hung themselves simultaneously. In a cellblock where guards are ordered to check on detainees every four minutes. They had a policy that if a detainee is hunger-striking, he cannot be interrogated, I believe the number-one mission in JTF-GTMO (Joint Task Force Guantanamo) at the time was, stop the hunger strikes at all costs. I think you get rid of the people that provoked the hunger strikes and you get rid of the problem. After the deaths, there were no hunger strikes for a long period of time.
 
|text=They would have had to all three tie their hands and feet together, shove rags down their throats, put a mask over their face, made a noose, hung it from the ceiling on the side of the cellblock, jumped into the noose, and hung themselves simultaneously. In a cellblock where guards are ordered to check on detainees every four minutes. They had a policy that if a detainee is hunger-striking, he cannot be interrogated, I believe the number-one mission in JTF-GTMO (Joint Task Force Guantanamo) at the time was, stop the hunger strikes at all costs. I think you get rid of the people that provoked the hunger strikes and you get rid of the problem. After the deaths, there were no hunger strikes for a long period of time.
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President Obama ended the CIA's black site officially in 2009.
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The BBC noted quite secretive in the last notes of the article that "The counter-terrorist experts insist that there may still be cases where they need to conceal for a time from a suspect's accomplices or family that they have him while they open up a terror network - and Mr Obama has insured that they still can. ".<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-14862161</ref>.
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[[John Kiriakou]], a [[whistleblower]] was sentenced to 30 months to prison, for revealing the torture program happening within black sites utilized as a prison that is.
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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*[[File:Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture.pdf]]
 
*[[Extraordinary rendition]] - an incomplete but still good list of (often highly educated and innocent) victims and their destroyed lives.
 
*[[Extraordinary rendition]] - an incomplete but still good list of (often highly educated and innocent) victims and their destroyed lives.
 
*Even more US Black sites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lww0EqMrjv0
 
*Even more US Black sites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lww0EqMrjv0
 
  
  

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Start1970?
Founder(s)SDS,  Terrorists,  Enemy Images,  CIA
Interest of• George W. Bush
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• John L. Helgerson
• Dick Marty
Black sites are places where a black project or covert operation is executed, organized, or held. Locations can vary from an air force or other military base, plain library, a secret embassy wing to even a jet-plane itself. Some black sites do become known to the general public, although often as a modified limited hangout.

Note: Known sites are missing and could easily be added to WS

Black sites are locations at which a secret covert operation (or black ops) or black project is conducted.[1] They are often funded by a black budget. Although the definition is better known for centuries as "secret prisons", militarization all over the world in the 1900s and intelligence agencies have begun utilizing black sites for a now wider array of projects that are either unacknowledged or not supposed to be revealed by governments in any way. During the 2000s the CIA became synchronously named with this term as dozens of reports revealed the CIA to be utilizing an extremely large network with over 50 countries involved.[2][3]


Official narrative

"There are no secret prisons[4]", "The state is on your side", or like in China (where the massive internment camps for Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang-province were successfully kept secret for an average of 10 years) "It's just re-education".[5] Although with the rise of the internet, when several secret prisons do become known to the public, the governments of the world and their standard responses since Ancient Rome have been something similar to "No, not here, this country doesn't do that" up to "nobody will be prosecuted, it wasn't that bad". Since the 2010s, the UN has condemned the massive collaboration of countries of all continents participating in these sort of programs, specifically highlighting the legal status of people transferred and operating at these prisons or bases.[6]

An incomplete map of participating countries in the biggest known program. Although the case was reported dozens of times by corporate media, this incomplete map has a rather interesting source (George Soros his Open Society Foundations), hinting a modified limited hangout?

“The US does not torture. I have not authorized it and I will not”
George W. Bush (2005)  [7]

Secret Prisons

Full article: Prison#Secret_Prisons
- An early history regarding the cold war and pre-cold war black sites are available on this page.

Although separate areas in a prison - where one would be separated from others in secret - have been a staple of governments for centuries, during the 1900s and the globalisation that occurred in it, many prisons "adapted" to a hardened society, and started taking more liberties in violating prisoners their rights. Early examples of prisons that violated those rights and therefore were being placed strategically out of the public eye pale in comparison with the same concept decades years later in the 2000s. Starting with the war on drugs around Nixon's administration - which later was joined by the war on terror around 1979 - the highly specialized methods of intelligence agencies utilizing these sites have evolved the term secret prisons into the more specialized term of "black sites".

Australia

Full article: Australia/1975 coup d'état

Pine Gap [8] is the commonly used name for a US satellite surveillance base in the Northern Territory, operated by Australia and the United States.[9] The station is run by CIA, NSA & the National Underwater Reconnaissance Office and is a vital part of the ECHELON-Program.

Chile

Amnesty International, the US Senate and the Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission[10] described the Esmeralda BE-43 ship as a "floating prison" for political prisoners of the Augusto Pinochet-administration from 1973 to 1980. with at least over hundred individuals held without trial and tortured, including foreign nationals. It was known as the "torture centre" among political dissidents. To this day, the ship is used by the Chilean Navy and met with dozens of protests by Chilean exiles every time it comes to shore in foreign waters.[11]

If the American people thought the leader of the corrupt officers of the Los Angeles Rampart-division now working for Harvey Weinstein[12] was bad enough of corruption to hear, wait until the people realize the government treats them the same nowadays as those "terrorists", right in the remote scary place of terrorist packed, torture-needing hell of....Chicago?

Vietnam

Full article: Vietnam War

The setting up of an NSA mass surveillance center there (according to Edward Snowden[13]) and a chemical weapons facility remains a silent matter.[14][15][16][17].

Europe

The Kosovo War for example included many "ad hoc" prison camps where spontaneous rape[18], murder[19], and genocide took place, with many of the victims murdered and buried and the perpetrators never been found.[20].

Asia

In the 2010s, corporate media has begun focusing on China after the Chinese decided to ramp up mass incarnation centers after the 2014 Kunming Attack. North Korea was also under the scope of the US and noted by Barack Obama to be the first thing he confessed to Donald Trump[21] to be addressed as it kept him up at night that he was preparing to bomb Pyongyang. Both countries are rumoured and were heavily reported with detailed satellite[22][23] images guided by corporate media pundits in the beginning of the 2020s to be running black sites for all kinds of purposes if not reclaiming land, building underground military bases or just raping and murdering activists, being called "modern concentration camps".[24][25]

CIA Continental Program

Full article: CIA/Torture

Like with many illegal intra governmental activities (see CIA/Black budget), the CIA began to emerge as a new trendsetter and black site kingpin during the 2000s.[26] The groundwork was set in the 1990s as the CIA was granted permission to use an extraordinary rendition of indicted terrorists to American soil in a 1995 presidential directive signed by President Bill Clinton, following a procedure established by George H. W. Bush in January 1993.[27][28] The Washington Post was the first to report on "secret prisons" being run in "metal containers" in Bagram Air Force base, Afghanistan.[29] Patrick Leahy and John Conyers, John D. Rockefeller IV, wrote to attorney general Peter D. Keisler, requesting all info on interrogation since 2004. Bush kept denying the program to included anything else than "U.S. law and our international obligations."[30]

CIA's Drug & Pedophile link?

Full article: Rated 3/5 Willem Matser
Full article: Ioan Talpes

Interestingly enough the CIA's Romanian Black Site program - was facilitated by former Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service director Ioan Talpes when Talpes was the presidential advisor of Ion Iliescu. Talpes introduced MiVD officer and NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson's policy expert Jan Willem Matser to Ovidiu Tender in 2002. Matser sought a controlling 51% share (at a cost of approximately US$ 1 billion) of PETROM National Society (SNP), a Romanian oil-company, which produced 10% of the Romanian GDP., together with Tender SA and Dick Cheney's Halliburton, apparently according to French analysts in which a French investigation that questioned the sudden support from Eastern Europe for the war on terror caused French President Jacques Chirac to become furious, "because the country was hijacked by CIA-agents for support in the War in Iraq"[31] A few days after the announcement of this trio’s interest, Matser was arrested and charged with having worked out an illegal financial arrangement designed to bring $200 million to Romania from Colombia along with a massive drug network after finding "packages" at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport utilizing NATO documents and legal procedures for fraud. Matser was sentenced to 14 months in prison but was ordered released because he has already served two-thirds of the sentence in pretrial detention. He was given three years' probation.

Romanian Secret Service connected a continental paedophile network, with the US lobbyists involved, but that investigation was met with a cover up after convicting one person, who remained silent on the matter.[32][33] One US official - a known historian and close friend of Ioan Talpes - working in Romania, abused at least two girls aged 10 and 13 in the house of the Romanian intelligence service.[34]

Cooperation

During the 2000s several reports began to appear, with independent media and corporate media connecting more locations throughout the world with the CIA's official Extraordinary Rendition and Detention Program. The Washington Post has met criticism regarding the publications of yet another article reporting but revealed Dana Priest modifying the article to a limited hangout as she agreed not to reveal the European countries participating in the program.[35]

Europe

The February 26 - March 4, 2005, edition of Ireland's Village magazine, featured an article titled "Abductions via Shannon" which revealed Dublin and Shannon airports in Ireland were "used by the CIA to abduct suspects in its war on terror". naming a Boeing 737 (registration number N313P, later re-registered N4476S) utilizing the airports on at least 81 occasions.[36] According to the article, the same aircraft landed in Guantanamo Bay on September 23, 2003.

When Human Right's Watch and the International Committee of the Red Cross jumped on the stories which caused some publications in media and they began publicly requesting access to individuals being abducted, EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini announced in November 2005 that any country found to be complicit could lose their right to vote in the council.[37]. The New Yorker released an article confirming the allegations of extreme torture to be correct, naming them a new variant of the Phoenix Program, with these mostly Arab and Muslim individuals to be subjected by CIA officers to be keeping prisoners naked indefinitely and photographing them naked to degrade and humiliate them, and forcibly administering drugs by suppositories, even killing multiple children abducted from the streets that died of things like hypothermia, with the techniques being called "retired and brought back to be perfected Cold War-methods" comparing them to the Copper Green-black project, with the CIA officers involved to "have taken out professional liability insurance, fearing that they could be criminally prosecuted if what they have already done became public knowledge[38]".

Dozens of local magazines began to report sightings of CIA aircraft as well. In 2005 Spanish paper El País[39] reported that CIA planes had landed in the Canary Islands and in Palma de Mallorca, in 2006 French paper Le Figaro reported a prosecutor investigated two CIA planes that had landed in France [40], In 2007, Portuguese general prosecutor Cândida Almeida, head of the Central Investigation and Penal Action Department (DCIAP), announced an investigation of "torture or inhuman and cruel treatment", prompted by allegations of "illegal activities and serious human rights violations" made by MEP Ana Gomes to the attorney general, with Visão magazine journalist Rui Costa Pinto (who had an article pulled by his employer even after writing an book about it) testifying before the DCIAP about flights passing through Lajes Field airbase, revealing at least 150 instances of CIA planes using Portugal. [41][42][43][44]

Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick published fax intercepted sent by the Egyptian embassy in London to the government of Egypt stating that 23 Iraqi and Afghan citizens were interrogated at Mihail Kogălniceanu base near Constanța, Romania, with the same document acknowledging similar black sites existent in Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Ukraine. The Swiss government denied the document to be accurate but nonetheless started a lawsuit for leakage of classified documents against Sonntagsblick in 2006.

In 2012, Poland's Prosecutor General's office initiated investigative proceedings against Zbigniew Siemiątkowski, the former Polish intelligence chief, charging him with facilitating operations illegal on the order of the CIA.[45] In 2017, Nature revealed the Dutch government to have facilitated CIA planes on 4 separate airports.[46]

Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Hungary, Latvia, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Romania, Czechia, Cyprus & Island were reported to also be part of the CIA's Post 9-11 Black site rendition program.[47] Some rendition aircraft ended in countries without an alleged black site, raising questions if there are black sites not uncovered.


Asia

Countries named in reports have included, Thailand (it was named as a station of CIA/Director Gina Haspel[48]), Afghanistan[49][50] (where all parties have been accused of running black sites, with the US army handing out a memo ordering soldiers to stay silent about the Taliban raping[51] little boys whom the soldiers would hear crying from their base) and Yemen (where some just vanish if not raped before that[52]). Hong Kong, Indonesia, Jordan, Uzbekistan and Kuwait were also named.


Africa

Morocco, Somalia[53], Libya[54],Egypt & Djibouti[55] were named as new popular destinations in 2008 at the end of the Bush administration for running black sites.[56] Mauritania, South Africa & others were also included.


New Methods

An article by the BBC in 2007 revealed the CIA also utilized jet airplanes of front companies resembling mafia movies, with the knowledge of airport-security on multiple European airports, naming at least 5 jet-planes. the US used 17 ships as mobile black sites with one ship reported to at least housed 100 prisoners, giving an eerie throwback to slavery and the imperialism of the 1700s.[57] Thailand was also accused of using relay stations[58] as black sites.

“They always followed the same procedure. We were always told to keep away. The planes would stay at the end of the runway, often with their engines running. A couple of military vans from the nearby intelligence base would go up to them, stay a while and then drive off, out of the airport. "I saw several of these flights but never saw inside the vans because they had tinted windows and they never stopped at the terminal building”
Mariola Przewlocka (2006)  [59]


Cover Up

EU

Although dozens of credible reports revealed some network to be existent in Europe as well, the EU Committee on Legal Affairs said in 2006 that "At this stage of the investigations, there is no formal, irrefutable evidence of the existence of secret CIA detention centres in Romania, Poland or any other country. Nevertheless, there are many indications from various sources which must be considered reliable, justifying the continuation of the analytical and investigative work".

A report from the Council of Europe estimated 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA on EU territory (with the cooperation of Council of Europe members), and rendered to other countries, often after having transited through secret detention centres ( called "black sites") used by the CIA, many European countries have denied every taking part in the program. According to a follow-up in a separate report by the European Parliament report in 2007, the CIA had already made 1,245 flights, naming the activities the black sites participated in was against the United Nations Conventions on Torture.[60]

The European Parliament's report, adopted and passed with 53% of the EU MPs in 2007, concluded Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom tolerated illegal actions of the CIA including secret flights over their territories and noted the continental unanimous act of not cooperating with the investigation, with multiple MPs remarking government had to be aware of such a widespread program, calling for the program itself to be ended as it was fundamentally wrong to begin with. The IGOs of judiciary capital The Hague stayed silent on prosecuting members as they were busy with Bosnia.[61] To date the only report the whole EU has agreed on.[62][63]

“The European Parliament denounces the lack of co-operation of many member states and of the Council of the European Union with the investigation; Regrets that European countries have been relinquishing control over their airspace and airports by turning a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on some occasions, were being used for illegal transportation of detainees; Calls for the closure of [the US military detention mission in] Guantanamo and for European countries immediately to seek the return of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by the US authorities; Considers that all European countries should initiate independent investigations into all stopovers by civilian aircraft [hired by] the CIA; Urges that a ban or system of inspections be introduced for all CIA-operated aircraft known to have been involved in extraordinary rendition”
European Parliament (2006)  [64]

Lawsuits

In 2014, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Poland violated the European Convention on Human Rights regarding Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in 2002 and 2003. The court rewarded both men cumulatively €230.000.[65] In 2018, the ECHR ruled that Romania and Lithuania also violated the human rights of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri up to 2006 and rewarded them the same amount of compensation.[66]


US

In 2007, The Washington Post reported that "members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had requested the withdrawal of the nomination of John A. Rizzo (a popular CIA lawyer) for the position of general counsel, due to concerns about his support for Bush administration legal doctrines permitting "enhanced interrogation of terrorism detainees in CIA custody".[67] On December 6, 2007, the CIA admitted that it had destroyed videotapes recordings of CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects involving harsh interrogation techniques, tapes which critics suggest may have documented the use of torture by the CIA, such as waterboarding. The tapes were made in 2002 as part of a secret detention and interrogation program, and were destroyed in November 2005. The reason? According to the CIA "the tapes posed a security risk for the interrogators shown on the tapes", but "had no more intelligence value and were not relevant to any inquiries".[68]

Robert Deitz, Michael Hayden, and Michael Morell started a private investigation according to the New York Times in 2007 on Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency General John L. Helgerson who made multiple reports starting from 2004 denouncing the torture. Hayden had succeeded in removing Mary McCarthy (who already had a history not following the goals of the military-industrial complex causing her to clash with Bill Clinton and half of the agency in 1998) completely in 2006 for as "leaking classified information".[69] Dozens of US investigations have disappeared or just halted with no politicians prosecuted[70], unlike Europe. Two medical psychologists were prosecuted in 2020, with the Trump administration even publicly announcing considering the option to re-open a Black site program in 2017.[71][72]


Diego Garcia

Full article: Rated 5/5 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague was reported by The Guardian pressured by an alliance of former detainees, an abducted military officer from the 2011 Attacks on Libya and NGOs to confess Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean to be running a MI6 black site.[73].

Diego Garcia is a small island in the Indian Ocean owned by the UK and US, cleaned of natives and operated by the US since 1973 as an ETOPS or Extended Range Twin Engine Operations emergency landing site[74] allowing twin-engine commercial air-planes to make theoretical non-stop flights between city pairs located between Africa, Oceania and East-Asia[75]. A not connected usage as black site may solve another deep event: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Diego Garcia, according to Wikileaks is also[76] used as a storage section for UK cluster bombs as a way of avoiding UK parliamentary oversight.

Selective enforment

While the media stimulates the US public to focus on Hollywood, Twitter & Trump, Democracy Now reported in 2018 "A major U.S. military and CIA military contractor has been detaining dozens of migrant children inside a vacant Arizona office building with dark windows, no kitchen, and only a few toilets, according to a new investigation by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Reveal learned about what some are calling the “black site” for migrant children after one local resident filmed children in sweatsuits being led into the building. The building was leased in March by MVM, a defence contractor that Reveal reports has received nearly $250 million in contracts to transport immigrant children since 2014[77]."

An former Guantanamo Bay staff sergeant and ex-marine publicly admitted the official narrative to be bullocks.[78]

“They would have had to all three tie their hands and feet together, shove rags down their throats, put a mask over their face, made a noose, hung it from the ceiling on the side of the cellblock, jumped into the noose, and hung themselves simultaneously. In a cellblock where guards are ordered to check on detainees every four minutes. They had a policy that if a detainee is hunger-striking, he cannot be interrogated, I believe the number-one mission in JTF-GTMO (Joint Task Force Guantanamo) at the time was, stop the hunger strikes at all costs. I think you get rid of the people that provoked the hunger strikes and you get rid of the problem. After the deaths, there were no hunger strikes for a long period of time.”
Joseph Hickman (2015)  [59]

End?

President Obama ended the CIA's black site officially in 2009. The BBC noted quite secretive in the last notes of the article that "The counter-terrorist experts insist that there may still be cases where they need to conceal for a time from a suspect's accomplices or family that they have him while they open up a terror network - and Mr Obama has insured that they still can. ".[79]. John Kiriakou, a whistleblower was sentenced to 30 months to prison, for revealing the torture program happening within black sites utilized as a prison that is.

See Also


 

Examples

Page nameDescription
9-11/WTC6A building in the World Trade Center which suffered at least one large explosion during September 11th. It housed the El Dorado Task force, which coordinated all major money laundering investigations in the U.S.
9-11/WTC7WTC7 was a 47-storey building which underwent a spectacular freefall collapse in its own footprint, relegated in Wikipedia to a fraction of a paragraph. Although completely unprecedented, this was not only predicted but announced by the BBC before it happened.
Area 51A military base owned by the US Department of Defense founded in 1955 that was not confirmed to exist for over 50 years, operating as a black site with projects from the US Air Force and the CIA, even though the media have been reporting on it since the infamous Roswell incident. Although much coverage only questions if there are "aliens" there, the confirmed US Air Force black projects go largely unquestioned.
Bad NenndorfSmall town in Lower Saxony, Germany, home to a British torture centre in the years after WW2. Covered-up by British "investigation".
Camp BondsteelCamp Bondsteel is known as the “grand dame” in a network of US bases running both sides of the border between Kosovo and Macedonia.
Camp DarbyAn U.S. enormous ammunition storage in Italy with ties to Gladio, arming of CIA black armies, and connected to the sinking of the passenger ferry Moby Prince
Chagos ArchipelagoUS & UK operated black site in the Indian Ocean. Plays a mysterious role in vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Deep Underground Military BasePossible large bunkers or even extensive interconnected networks of bunkers hidden deep underground, mostly in the United States.
Fort HoodThe most populous U.S. military installation in the world, the number and particularly the type of crimes reported in and around the facility is suspicious and has the hallmarks of either a black site or quite a chaotic base.
Guantanamo Bay detention campA US military base now used primarily as a torture camp due to its obscure legal jurisdiction. After campaigning in 2009 on promises to shut it down within a year, in 2014 Barack Obama announced plans to expand it.
Homan SquareA black site that even after its exposure in February 2015 continued to be used by Chicago police for a range of off-the-books activities.
Johns Hopkins UniversityOnly a short drive from Washington DC, it is a major deep state milieu.
Manus IslandPacific island with large US and Australian military/intelligence presence.
MaranaIA airport in Arizona. Part of Iran Contra, and possible site where the 911 planes were made into drones.
National parkThe remote locations of national parks, protected by special laws and armed forces, make them ideal for covert activities.
Pine GapA secret mass surveillance CIA base in Australia, named as reasoning for a coup in the 1970s.

 

Related Quotations

PageQuoteAuthorDate
2010 United States diplomatic cables leak/Middle East“You know better than I that we cannot deal with these people (the Guantanamo detainees). I can't detain them. If I take their passports, they will sue to get them back. I can talk to you into next week about building a rehabilitation center, but it won't happen. We are not Saudi Arabia; we cannot isolate these people in desert camps or somewhere on an island. We cannot compel them to stay. If they are rotten, they are rotten and the best thing to do is get rid of them. You picked them up in Afghanistan; you should drop them off in Afghanistan, in the middle of the war zone.”Wikileaks
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
2010
Boeing“Clearly Boeing and certain agencies have the capacity to take over ‘uninterruptible control’ of commercial airliners of which MH370 B777 is one. Someone is hiding something, it is not fair that… Malaysia should take the blame. For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA"”Mahathir Mohamad2014
Seymour Hersh“But one of the things we did, ostensibly to improve the conditions of prisoners, we demanded that the American soldiers operating in Afghanistan could only hold a suspected Taliban for four days, 96 hours. If not... after four days they could not be sure that this person was not a Taliban, he must be freed. Instead of just holding them and making them Taliban, you have to actually do some, some work to make the determination in the field. Tactically, in the field. So what happens of course, is after three or four days, "bang, bang" — I'm just telling you — they turn them over to the Afghans and by the time they take three steps away the shots are fired. And that's going on. It hasn't stopped. It's not just me that's complaining about it. But the stuff that goes on in the field, is still going on in the field — the secret prisons, absolutely, oh you bet they're still running secret prisons. Most of them are in North Africa, the guys running them are mostly out of Djibouto [sic]. We have stuff in Kenya (doesn't mean they're in Kenya, but they're in that area).”Seymour HershJanuary 2011
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370“This report makes no attempt or claim to prove that the large low flying jet plane seen over Kudahuvadhoo that fateful early morning was MH 370. It merely sets the record straight that the jet plane that overflew Kudahuvadhoo has not yet been identified. The Maldives government first claimed there was "no plane", then the plane was a "private jet", then fifteen months later a "domestic propeller plane flight", then back to "no plane", then finally to say it cannot be discussed due to "national security".”Blaine Gibson2016
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370“Clearly Boeing and certain agencies have the capacity to take over ‘uninterruptible control’ of commercial airliners of which MH370 B777 is one. Someone is hiding something, it is not fair that… Malaysia should take the blame. For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA"”Mahathir Mohamad2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370“My own view is that probably control was taken of that aeroplane, the events that happened during the course of its tracked flight will be anybody's guess of who did what and when. I think we need to know who was on this aeroplane in the detail that obviously some people do know, we need to know what was in the hold of the aeroplane, in the detail we need to know, in a transparent manner.”Tim ClarkNovember 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370/Blaine Alan Gibson's research“This report makes no attempt or claim to prove that the large low flying jet plane seen over Kudahuvadhoo that fateful early morning was MH 370. It merely sets the record straight that the jet plane that overflew Kudahuvadhoo has not yet been identified. The Maldives government first claimed there was "no plane", then the plane was a "private jet", then fifteen months later a "domestic propeller plane flight", then back to "no plane", then finally to say it cannot be discussed due to "national security".”Blaine Gibson2016


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