European Probe Yields Details of Secret CIA Flights

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Also Tuesday, the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported that international flight logs showed that a single Gulfstream jet used by the CIA landed six times in Warsaw, the capital, and once at Szymany between February and July 2003. Four of the flights originated in Afghanistan, the paper reported.

In November 2005, The Washington Post first reported the presence of clandestine CIA prisons in Eastern Europe. The Post withheld exact locations at the request of the White House, which argued that divulging such details could jeopardize active counterterrorism operations and subject host countries to retaliation from al-Qaida.

In September, President Bush acknowledged the existence of the CIA's overseas prison network for the first time. He said 14 inmates had been transferred to the U.S. Navy prison at Guantánamo Bay and that the "black sites" had been emptied. He did not rule out using them again.