'Torture Taxi' by Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson

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How secret CIA flights to foreign jails were discovered -- with ease

Sunday, February 11, 2007
By John Freeman

... While journalists poked and prodded details out of the government, tangible evidence of this policy was parked at airstrips around the nation.

As SF Weekly journalist A.C. Thomson and Trevor Paglen discovered, these details were easy to obtain. With just a minuscule amount of digging, plane spotters deduced that civilian aircraft were making regular runs to destinations such as Guantanamo Bay, Baghdad and Kabul.

These planes came home to roost in places such as Reno, Nev.; Smithfield, N.C.; and Dedham, Mass.

There is a precedent for it, Thompson and Paglen remind -- the covert CIA airline, Air America. From the late 1940s to the early '70s, this aircraft fleet flew black-op missions in Southeast Asia until Congress stopped it ...

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07042/760594-148.stm