European investigators looking into allegations of secret CIA-run prisons in Europe said today that a purported Egyptian government message naming countries where such prisons existed could amount to indirect proof of the claims.

The Swiss investigator probing claims that the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe today said people were apparently abducted and transferred illegally between countries.

An investigator looking into claims that the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe said today that people were apparently abducted and transferred between countries illegally.

Polish prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz today said that reports of the CIA using his country’s airports to transfer terror suspects were worth investigating.

At midnight on an autumn night two years ago, a Boeing passenger plane with seven people carrying US passports touched down at a little-used airport deep in the pine forests of north-eastern Poland, officials say.