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Torture taxi : on the trail of the CIA's rendition flights
- Title
- Torture taxi : on the trail of the CIA's rendition flights / Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson.
- Author
- Paglen, Trevor.
- Publication
- Hoboken, N.J. : Melville House, 2006.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Thompson, A. C.
- Description
- 205 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- "It's no longer a secret: Since 9/11, the CIA has quietly kidnapped more than a hundred people and detained them at prisons throughout the world. Often, the detainees are tortured, or disappeared entirely. The program is called "extraordinary rendition," and it is a key part of the largest U.S. clandestine operation since the end of the Cold War." "In this first book to systematically investigate extraordinary rendition, an award-winning investigative journalist and a "military geographer" explore the CIA program in a series of journeys that takes them around the world. They travel to suburban Massachusetts to profile a CIA front company that supplies the agency with airplanes: to Smithfield, North Carolina, to track down the pilots who fly CIA aircraft, to the San Francisco suburbs to study with a "planespotter" who monitors the CIA's movements: and to Afghanistan, where the authors visit the notorious "Salt Pit" prison and interview released Afghan detainees." "They find that, five years after 9/11, the kidnappings have not stopped. On the contrary, the rendition program has been formalized, colluding with the military when necessary, and constantly changing its cover to remain hidden from sight."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 1933633093
- OCLC
- ocm71814928
- SCSB-5279604
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries