1,000 Secret Cia Flights Options

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1,000 Secret CIA Flights

More than 1,000 secret CIA flights have been carried out on European territory since 2001, without the European states demanding any explanations, said a European Parliament report. The EU investigators closely studied a series of cases and the testimonies by dozens of witnesses who said they had been kidnapped by US agents. The report showed that CIA planes made several undeclared stopovers on European territory, violating an international air treaty requiring airlines to declare the routes and stopovers.


Italian politician Giovanni Claudio Fava, who drafted the report, said that documents provided by the EU’s air safety agency, Eurocontrol, showed that the governments of the European countries, where the aforementioned flights were carried out, requested no information on the flights. As Fava noted, the EU governments showed guilty inertia, since they couldn’t possibly be unaware of the nature of these flights.

At the same time, the European Council is carrying out another inquiry into the same issue, aiming to determine whether the EU treaty on human rights was infringed or not. The EU ParliamentCommittee has not been vested with the power to conduct interrogations, but, upon is set-up last January, it has carried out probes and interviews that confirmed CIA’s responsibility for the abduction and detention of terror suspects on EU Member States’ territory