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...jumped from birds to humans and killed an estimated 20-40 million people (3% of the world's population). The pandemic struck during World War I and warring nations worried that the enemy might use the virus to its advantage, so most news reports of the outbreak were censored. Spain remained neutral during the war, and its accounts of the virus's horrific symptoms caused the illness to be nicknamed the "Spanish flu," even though scientists now believe it originated in the United States...
...Spain's government was clearly aware that the flights were of questionable legality. A separate document sent from the Spanish section of the Permanent Hispano-North American Committee and published in Monday's El Pais suggests that out of the three U.S. military airports in Spain, Moron would be the "most discrete." That same report urged its recipients to consider that "some of the people transported could have European nationality" and to "weigh the legal consequences...
Just hours after Spain's foreign affairs ministry communicated its assent to the U.S. embassy request on January 11, 2002, a flight took off from a military base in Moron, in southern Spain. "From our investigation using Portugal's registry, we know that the plane originated in Kandahar, landed at Moron, crossed Portuguese air space, and continued on to Cuba," says Beltran. "The 23 people onboard inaugurated Guantanamo...
Both Amnesty and the European Parliament have found evidence that the CIA also used civilian airports in Spain on 68 different occasions between 2002 and 2005 for layovers on flights used for the transport of suspected terrorists...
...Spain's national court has opened an investigation into the CIA flights, and it's possible that the reports published in El Pais are part of the documentation submitted to the presiding judge. But the question of why these documents have surfaced now remains a mystery. "We have no idea where this came from," says a spokesperson at the foreign ministry. "It was very surprising...