The Lithuanian Parliament released its findings into a probe of CIA activities in the nation today, confirming that the American spy agency in fact operated two “black sites” inside the Lithuanian capital city of Vilnius.
The probe further showed that at least five CIA planes landed in the city and that Lithuania’s own domestic spy agencies prevented border guards from inspecting them. Lithuania’s civilian government denies ever having been informed of any such actions beforehand, and Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius called it a “matter of great concern.”
Rather the requests are said to have gone directly to Lithuania’s State Security Department, which approved the CIA’s requests establishing both a single-cell “interrogation” facility and later a larger site. A former stable on the outskirts of the city served as the CIA’s interrogation center.
The US has declined all comments into this probe so far, but the Lithuanian government seems determined not to allow the activity to damage relations at any rate. The State Security Department’s chief, Povilas Malakauskas, resigned last week in anticipation of the results of the probe.
If the US doesn't like the man in power in any country, you can bet the CIA will be there.
There was Hitler, and his love for concentration camps in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Hundreds of them. West, having "forgiven" this mostly forgotten episode, now uses Baltics in the same way Hitler did. Now, these are bad guys, they say. If that is the case, wouldn't the world already hear about it? But they will say that they cannot tell us, because it would ruin the intelligence value. Some intelligence. We are so intelligently stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan. And nobody wants to be the stupid one to have to admit this and get out. Least of all our new President. He will try to invent the better mousetrap, the more intelligent one. But in the meantime, the product is here to see. Some countries are being asked to earn some revenue, to house some suspects so that our contractors can make more revenue, and then they will be passed on to another country and their contractors to make some more revenue. That is all these people are good for.