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in Afghanistan ]] Black site is a Military Term that has been used by United States Intelligence Agencies to refer to any classified facility that is officially denied by the US government. Recently the term has gained notoriety in describing allegedly secret Prison s, generally outside of the mainland U.S. territory and legal jurisdiction, and with little or no political or public Oversight . It can refer to the facilities that are allegedly controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used by the U.S. in its " War On Terror " to detain suspected Enemy Combatant s. The claimed purpose is to detain Terrorists outside of the Intelligence Oversight Act which authorises Congressional supervision. A claim those black sites existed was made by the '' Washington Post '' in October 2005 . A Presidential Directive allows the agency to capture and hold specific classes of suspects without accounting for them to the public, or revealing the conditions they face in the prisons, which have been proven in some cases to include torture and other prisoner abuse . The prisons are assumed to be serviced by the N44982 , N4476S and N221SG prisoner transport planes, although there is no proof of the allegation. Apart from the hundred CIA Detainees , Swiss politician Dick Marty 's January 2006 report concluded that another hundred had been kidnapped on European territory and Rendered to other countries, some of which use Torture . An investigation on the origins of the leaks has also been opened by the U.S. Justice Department to investigate what may have been illegal release of classified information. On April 21 2006 , Mary O. McCarthy , a longtime CIA analyst, was reportedly fired for leaking classified information to a ''Washington Post'' reporter. Some have speculated that the information allegedly leaked may have included information about the camps.1 McCarthy's lawyer, however, claims that McCarthy "did not have access to the information she is accused of leaking." {Link without Title} DETAINEES See Also: Detainees in CIA custody The list of those thought to be held by the CIA include suspected al-Qaeda members 2006 ] SUSPECTED BLACK SITES ;, which includes Camp X-Ray (now closed), Camp Delta , Camp Echo and Camp Iguana . A CIA prison was built within the larger Camp Echo at Guantanamo Bay in 2003, and has reportedly held prisoners from Pakistan, West Africa and Yemen. ; Relay Station in Udon Thani was reported to be a ''black site''. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has denied these reports.2 |
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