Army Documents Shed Light on CIA 'Ghosting'

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Systematic Concealment Of Detainees Is Found

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 24, 2005; Page A15

Senior defense officials have described the CIA practice of hiding unregistered detainees at Abu Ghraib prison as ad hoc and unauthorized, but a review of Army documents shows that the agency's "ghosting" program was systematic and known to three senior intelligence officials in Iraq.

Army and Pentagon investigations have acknowledged a limited amount of ghosting, but more than a dozen documents and investigative statements obtained by The Washington Post show that unregistered CIA detainees were brought to Abu Ghraib several times a week in late 2003, and that they were hidden in a special row of cells. Military police soldiers came up with a rough system to keep track of such detainees with single-digit identification numbers, while others were dropped off unnamed, unannounced and unaccounted for.

Military policemen guard a processing center at the Abu Ghraib prison, where unregistered CIA detainees were brought several times a week in late 2003, documents show. (John Moore -- AP)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61206-2005Mar23.html

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1. Link to other LBN thread on this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1337009