Romania Agreed To Host CIA "Black Sites'" To Be Accepted Into NATO

Monday, December 15, 2014

Romania Agreed To Host CIA "Black Sites'" To Be Accepted Into NATO - Ex Spy Chief

Monday, December 15, 2014

Bush, Cheney plumbed the depths of evil and depravity to come up with CIA torture sites; Romania should be stripped of NATO membership, ejected from world community until such time as they come completely clean on CIA "black sites"

RT
12/14/2014

Romania allowed the CIA to use a number of sites on its territory, a former head of the country’s intelligence confessed.

He added that Bucharest’s bid to join NATO at the time prevented it from asking the US about the purposes of the sites.

The sites in question were called “transit centers” and Romania was unaware of whether they were used for detention, Ioan Talpes, who headed Romania’s Foreign Intelligence Service from 2000 to 2004, told the daily Adevarul in a video interview posted online on Saturday.

"The Romanian side was not interested in what the Americans were doing, purposely to show them that they could trust us," said Talpes.

Indeed, there will now be no escaping war crimes trials

AFP cited the interview, in which Talpes specifically stressed that at the time the decision was made, Bucharest was waiting to join NATO.

The ex-spy chief said talks on “sites that the Romanians would place at the disposal of CIA representatives” began after September 11, 2001.

"What is certain is that we were not aware of the presence of detainees," Talpes insisted in the interview.

The US Senate report on torture, published earlier this week, revealed among other things that 119 people were captured and held in CIA detention sites hosted by other countries.

Although none of the countries were specifically named in the heavily redacted document, the list of those assumed to be mentioned includes Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Thailand and Afghanistan.

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