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...Grey says he then embarked on basic "shoe-leather reporting," criss-crossing between Washington, the Middle East, Europe and Pakistan over the next few years. Ultimately he detailed 89 renditions involving 87 prisoners, several of whom he says had not previously been documented. But Grey says he believes "hundreds" of others have not been identifed. In interviews, former CIA agents who had worked in the renditions program told Grey the numbers of renditions were "in the low hundreds." Goss told the Senate Intelligence Committee in February last year that with rendered prisoners, "once out of our control, there is only...
...Grey says he obtained key evidence from an insider in the aviation industry - whom he has kept anonymous - who faxed him lengthy flight logs to his London home, allowing Grey to trace the paths of hundreds of supposedly secret CIA flights. Still, given the explosive nature of the CIA program, some details were astonishingly easy for Grey to find. The CIA neglected to cover their tracks in key areas. The agency did not request confidentiality on professional aviation tracking websites, which allow certain flights to remain unrecorded for security reasons. The online databases helped fill out the details for Grey...
...Some former CIA operatives, and at least one active CIA agent were willing - indeed occasionally eager - to describe the renditions process to Grey, perhaps because they feared that they would be ultimately held responsible while the White House strenuously denied that rendered prisoners were tortured abroad. One former CIA agent told Grey: "Everything we did, down to the tiniest detail, every rendition and every technique of interrogation used against prisoners in our hands, was scrutinized and approved by [CIA] headquarters. And nothing was done without approval from the White House - from Rice herself and with a signature from John Ashcroft...
...Curiously, according to Ghost Plane, the renditions teams left fingerprints in several places along their globe-trotting trail. They called home from their cell phones. In January 2004, a CIA team flying on a Boeing Business Jet, registered to Premier Executive Transport in Massachusetts - which Grey said appeared to list only one employee, and which has refused comment to Grey and other journalists - bedded down at the five-star Marriott Son Antem resort in Palma on Majorca, the Mediterranean island, after a long, grueling day: they had flown prisoners under cover of darkness from the Moroccan capital Rabat to Kabul...
...hotel bills, under their CIA cover names, show they made use of resort facilities, including the health spa. Later that year, the Milan anti-terrorism prosecutor Antonio Spataro began investigating whether CIA agents had rendered an Egyptian prisoner, Abu Omar-Osama Nasr, illegally from Italy. Spataro told Grey that among the findings that most surprised him was the high-ticket hotel bills in his city; two alleged CIA agents under the names of Monica Adler and John Duffin spent $18,000 in a three-week stay at the Milan Savoy. Spataro has since issued warrants for their arrest, along with...