Posted on 02/07/2007 11:01:38 AM PST by lizol
Remote Polish airport may have hosted CIA
Feb. 7, 2007 at 1:35AM
A former military air base hidden in the woods in northern Poland may have been used by CIA flights bringing detainees to a secret interrogation center.
The Mazury-Szczytno International Airport has a 6,500-foot runway, long enough to handle large jets, the Chicago Tribune reports. While no aircraft have used it recently, there was a lot of activity for a few months in 2002 and 2003.
Observers said that most of the planes that landed were corporate jets belonging to U.S. air transport companies. They usually stopped at the far end of the runway where government vehicles would meet them and then take off after no more than 2 hours on the ground.
Most of the planes arrived from Afghanistan and took off for destinations like Uzbekistan and Morocco.
"Everything was unusual, from beginning to end," said Mariola Przewlocka, the manager from 2003 until 2005. "I was told to accept these flights even when the airport was closed."
Polish intelligence maintains a complex at Stare Kiejkuty, 12 miles from the airport.
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Another reason to give heartfelt thanks for the Poles.
Why would someone polish an airport?
Careful, you come off sounding like a DEMOCRAT!
Poland lets us use their airports.
They send their troops to Iraq to support us.
They love America.
So we screw 'em and place the most draconian travel restrictions on them as if they are the scum of the earth.
But we let people from other countries come and go as they please.
What's up with that?
Hehe...at least you got the joke.
Now I've got an image of pretty Polish girls handing out kielbasa and beer to guys in sunglasses and trench coats.
Now why in the **** would you fly a plane from Afghanistan all the way to Poland and then back to Uzbekistan?
Please....
Thank you Poland.
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