Black site

Black site  (Research,  third rail topic)
Interest of	• George W. Bush • CIA • 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.

Black sites are locations at which a secret covert operation (or black operation) or black project is conducted. Black sites can facilitate governments in holding victims of extraordinary rendition for all kinds of purposes, be it an interrogation, pressuring witnesses, turning or debriefing a spook or enemy combatant, demotivating political dissidents to just plain torture. 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 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 extensive network of black sites of not only buildings but ships and planes as well, aimed at avoiding giving the kidnapped any rights at all with many links and questions still unanswered.

Official narrative

"There are no secret prisons", "The state is on your side", or like in China the massive internment camps for Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang-province were successfully kept secret for an average of 10 years.

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.

“"The US does not torture. I have not authorized it and I will not"”
 (2005) 

Early examples

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, caused many prisons to "adapt" 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.

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 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, 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 actually 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.

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. The US had their similar own secret prison called "P. O. Box 1142", 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

US

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" 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, ÙSP 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 prison regimes. These regimes became the basis of the new US national Supermax-prisons.

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. Within two years, the prison was shut down after media coverage. 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.

Soviet Union

Vladimir Lenin brought back forced labor of political prisoners in labor camps from 1918, 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 and prevented from being widely published by the CCP. 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.. 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.

CIA Continental Program

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. 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.

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.", 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. 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.

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See Also

• Khalid El-Masri
• Abu Omar
• Aafia Siddiqui

 

Examples

Page name	Description
9-11/WTC6	A 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/WTC7	WTC7 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 51	A 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 Nenndorf	Small town in Lower Saxony, Germany, home to a British torture centre in the years after WW2. Covered-up by British "investigation".
Camp Bondsteel	Camp Bondsteel is known as the “grand dame” in a network of US bases running both sides of the border between Kosovo and Macedonia.
Camp Darby	An 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 Archipelago	US & UK operated black site in the Indian Ocean. Plays a mysterious role in vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Deep Underground Military Base	Possible large bunkers or even extensive interconnected networks of bunkers hidden deep underground, mostly in the United States.
Fort Hood	The 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 camp	A 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 Square	A 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 University	Only a short drive from Washington DC, it is a major deep state milieu.
Manus Island	Pacific island with large US and Australian military/intelligence presence.
Marana	IA airport in Arizona. Part of Iran Contra, and possible site where the 911 planes were made into drones.
National park	The remote locations of national parks, protected by special laws and armed forces, make them ideal for covert activities.
Pine Gap	A secret mass surveillance CIA base in Australia, named as reasoning for a coup in the 1970s.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
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 Mohamad	2014
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 Hersh	January 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 Gibson	2016
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 Mohamad	2014
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 Clark	November 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 Gibson	2016

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6 November 2023 Jun  The worldwide CIA kidnapping program of mostly innocent people from all over the world.
One of the most evil consequences of 9-11 is the permanent CIA kidnapping program, where often innocent people, including kids, were kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered without any trial or posthumous apology.

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