CIA report highlights European complicity

swissinfo: A Swiss investigator says that European governments probably knew about CIA abductions and the transfer of detainees through European airspace.

But Dick Marty, who is investigating the affair for the Council of Europe, said in an interim report he had no concrete proof of CIA detention centres in eastern Europe or elsewhere

It is highly unlikely that European governments, or at least their intelligence services, were unaware of the "rendition" of more than 100 detainees, Marty said on Tuesday.

Marty's interim report on CIA prisons and flights for the Council of Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog, was made public in a memorandum.

Citing statements made by American officials and others, Marty said there was "a great deal of coherent, convergent evidence pointing to the existence of a system of 'relocation' or 'outsourcing' of torture".

He added: "It has been proved - and in fact never denied - that individuals have been abducted, deprived of their liberty and transported ... in Europe, to be handed over to countries in which they have suffered... torture." Read more


Read Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights report here