- WARSAW: Human rights groups say the Polish government has for the first time provided official records confirming the landing of planes associated with the CIA's secret detainee program.
The Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights say the data supports the findings of a 2007 report by the Council of Europe on rendition flights. The groups said Monday that flight logs provided by a Polish aviation authority under a Freedom of Information Act revealed details about least six landings in 2003 at former military airport of Szczytno-Szymany in northern Poland. A 2005 Human Rights Watch report claimed the US spy agency transported suspected terrorists captured in Afghanistan to Poland.
