This is interesting, the CIA plants a story in the US Media in advance of being criticized.
US Disappointed at New Report Criticizing CIA Tactics June 06, 2006
The United States Wednesday expressed disappointment over a new report saying that secret U.S. transfers and detention of terrorist suspects in Europe violated international law. The State Department said intelligence cooperation among the United States and European allies saves lives.
The report commissioned by the Council of Europe is the latest in a series of critical assessments in the past year of cooperation between the CIA and European counterparts in the transfer and detention of terrorist suspects.
Here is the original report from the European Council released only Yesterday!PACE committee: US has woven clandestine ‘spider’s web’ of detentions and transfers, with collusion of Council of Europe member states Strasbourg, 07.06.2006 – The United States has progressively woven a clandestine “spider’s web” of disappearances, secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers – spun with the collaboration or tolerance of Council of Europe member states, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) said today.
In a draft resolution adopted at a meeting in Paris, based on a report by Dick Marty (Switzerland, ALDE), the committee said hundreds of persons had become entrapped in this web – in some cases when they were merely suspected of sympathising with a presumed terrorist organisation.
The parliamentarians said this knowing collusion of member states took several different forms, including secretly detaining a person on European territory, capturing a person and handing them over to the US or permitting unlawful “renditions” through their airspace or across their territory.
“It has now been demonstrated incontestably, by numerous well-documented and convergent facts, that secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers involving European countries have taken place, such as to require in-depth inquiries and urgent responses by the executive and legislative branches of all the countries concerned,” the committee said.
The committee called on Council of Europe member states to review bilateral agreements signed with the United States, particularly those on the status of US forces stationed in Europe, to ensure they conformed fully to international human rights norms.
The report is due for debate by the plenary Assembly – which brings together 630 parliamentarians from the 46 Council of Europe member states – in Strasbourg on 27 June 2006.
Draft resolution and recommendation
Mr Marty's explanatory memorandum (PDF)
Mr Marty's explanatory memorandum (HTML)
Graphic image of global ''spider's web'' (JPEG)
Information for the press
Video of the press conference
Summary of Mr Marty's explanatory memorandum
Special file
And of course the countries used are the NEW members of the EU, those countries that joined America's Coalition of the Blackmailed in their war on Iraq.
European states ‘in CIA’s spider’s web’
14 Nations Aided CIA in Abductions, Report SaysHowever for the CIA this is the continuation of the Cold War, sans the Soviet Union. They have merely transfered their dirty black operations from focusing on Russia, to using the East European countries as their dungeons for the War On Terror.
That is the same Cold War, which they used to justify their covert support of former Nazi's such as Bundesfueher Gehlen and his former SS division, because they had agents in Russia.Appointing Hayden Makes Perfect Spook Sense
Early last year, the National Security Archive “posted the CIA’s secret documentary history of the U.S government’s relationship with General Reinhard Gehlen, the German army’s intelligence chief for the Eastern Front during World War II. At the end of the war, Gehlen established a close relationship with the U.S.,” writes Tamara Feinstein. “The documentation unearthed by the [Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group] reveals extensive relationships between former Nazi war criminals and American intelligence organizations, including the CIA. For example, current records show that at least five associates of the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann worked for the CIA, 23 other Nazis were approached by the CIA for recruitment, and at least 100 officers within the Gehlen organization were former SD or Gestapo officers.” General Reinhard Gehlen was a big time war criminal, responsible for organizing the Iron Guard in Romania, the Latvian Vanagis, and the Croatian Ustashe, groups responsible for brutal atrocities against the “untermenschen” of Eastern Europe (not only Jews, Roma, homosexuals, and communists, but anybody who opposed Nazi rule).
Of course, that the CIA embraced Nazi murderers (including the notorious Claus Barbie) should come as no surprise. “Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy,” William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, noted in 1937. “They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there.” William Randolph Hearst, Sr., the Mellon-Davis-Duke Alcoa monopoly, the Du Pont corporation, ITT, General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, the anti-Semite Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company, and of course the Bush crime family and no shortage of Wall Street bankers and financiers all supported and bankrolled the Nazis. Remember, the CIA’s first covert op was conducted in the name of the United Fruit Company and it has worked diligently in the service of corporations ever since.
This made headlines again this week with the realease of newly declassified CIA documents.
Why Israel's capture of Eichmann caused panic at the CIA
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 15 hours ago
Newly declassified CIA documents show the Americans and the German BND knew Eichmann was hiding in Argentina at least two years before Israeli agents snatched ...
CIA used former Nazis as spies, did not act on war criminals Hindustan Times
CIA ignored tip to arrest Eichmann to preserve Cold War stability Telegraph.co.uk
Files show CIA didn't pass tip on EichmannInternational Herald Tribune
In Somalia it turns out that once again the CIA's War On Terror has only made things worse. Its just not the CIA's week. Truly the Spy Who Came In With A Cold, or The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight.Efforts by CIA Fail in Somalia, Officials Charge
New York Times, United States - 12 hours ago
... The officials said the CIA effort, run from the agency's station in Nairobi, Kenya, had channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past year to ...
CIA role in Somalia may have backfired Denver Post
Somalia militia flaunts control Chicago Tribune
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