Deep in
north-eastern Poland, a neglected airstrip has been identified as a key
staging post in the CIA’s clandestine torture programme.
For
the first time, a detailed picture of how the CIA flew terror suspects
into Szymany and on to a nearby ‘dark site’ for brutal interrogations
has emerged.
In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, the airport’s former managing director Mariola Przewlocka reveals:
Ashamed: Mariola Przewlocka, who spoke exclusively to the Mail on Sunday, at the entrance to Szymany airport
- Mysterious flights arrived with little notice – and up to six times the landing fees were paid by anonymous officials
- Military cars with darkened windows took passengers from the plane in secret and off to a Polish military intelligence base
- She believes she witnessed the arrival of September 11 ‘mastermind’ Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on a CIA Gulfstream jet – which later landed in Glasgow
- Airport staff were forbidden to approach the aircraft
- A quiet American woman, said to be ‘from the embassy’, once watched as a transfer took place
- Basic safety rules were sometimes flouted.
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