CIA ran secret prisons says Council of Europe investigator

The CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate high-level detainees in its war on terror, a Council of Europe report said today.

European investigator Dick Marty accused Germany and Italy of obstructing his probe into alleged secret detentions by the CIA.

Marty’s Council of Europe report, citing unnamed CIA sources, also said top terror suspects Abu Zubaydah, an associate of Osama bin Laden, and 9/11 mastermind confessor Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were secretly held and interrogated in Poland.

He said “highest state authorities” in countries involved knew of the alleged detention centres.