The government under the premiership of Leszek Miller (2001-4) knew about the alleged CIA detention facility in Poland, the existence of which has been denied by successive governments.
The Rzeczpospolita daily front pages what is presented as an ‘exclusive’: that secret CIA prisons located in Szymany, northeastern Poland, were not only known about by Miller’s government but that they actively covered them up.
Miller, when confronted with the allegations by TV journalists before - the accusations are not new - described them as, ""a fairy tale."
Rzeczpospolita writes that the existence of the prison has been verified, not only by its own reporters, but also by public broadcaster TVP Info journalists who are in possession of documents that undermine the stance of Polish authorities, which have claimed that they never cooperated with the CIA to this extent.
TVP Info and Rzeczpospolita also report that they have found a witness who had seen blindfolded and handcuffed prisoners being taken out of a plane which landed at Szymany airport.
Rzeczpospolita claims to have a source inside the Polish military who maintains that there was indeed a CIA base bear the Szymany airbase, and who says that the “Americans have something to thank Poland for.”
Reports by Polish journalists that documents exist confirming the prisons in Poland are not new, however, and even the above quote that Americans have something to thank Poland for has featured in earlier stories made by other publications.
In September 2008 Gazeta Wyborcza ran a report stating that Polish prosecutors obtained a top secret memorandum from either late 2005 or early 2006 showing that a CIA prison existed from around 2003 onwards and closed in 2005.
Gazeta Wyborcza then quoted unnamed sources saying that they had seen the document, but who did not explicitly say that the prison served as a holding center for al-Qaeda terrorist suspects.
Gazeta reported that according to the document the secret prison was set up after the US and Poland signed an accord in 2002 to combat terrorism, following the 9/11 attacks in the US.
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The countries were all listed and Bush gave them money for the use of their sites. Now Germany is also on the list. Most of the Leaders that worked with Bush are gone. But Merkel will have alot of explaining to do about Germany. She's up for re election and this could cause her to lose. That's why she is so up set with President Obama for releasing the information.
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