CIA secret prison "proof" falls short, for now (Reuters)

Source: Reuters

CIA secret prison "proof" falls short, for now
Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:37AM EDT

By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent - Analysis

LONDON (Reuters) - Renewed charges that Poland and Romania
hosted CIA secret prisons are not supported by hard proof and
the European Union has little appetite to probe deeper, diplomats
and parliamentarians say.

Nineteen months after the allegations first surfaced, European
investigator Dick Marty said last week it was now "proven" that
both countries housed senior terrorist suspects at secret sites
where the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency subjected them to
aggressive interrogation amounting to torture.

For Marty, the "proof" lay in interviews with more than 30 U.S.
and European intelligence sources, some of whom he quoted
verbatim in his 72-page report for the Council of Europe, a
human rights watchdog.

But the price of getting them to talk -- a promise of anonymity
-- was high: it allowed the Polish and Romanian governments to
repeat their denials and attack his credibility.

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