Doc. 11302 Report
Contents
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A. Draft resolution......................................................................................................................................... 3
B. Draft recommendation.............................................................................................................................. 5
C. Explanatory memorandum, by Mr Dick Marty...........................................................................................6
1. Introductory remarks – an overview..................................................................................................... 6
2. The “dynamics of truth”........................................................................................................................ 9
2.1. How President Bush’s disclosure of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secret detention
programme has accelerated the “dynamics of truth”...........................................................................9
2.2. The responsibility to provide a truthful account and the importance of confidential sources...... 10
2.3. The concept: the development of the “high-value detainee” (HVD) programme operated by the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)..................................................................................................... 13
2.4. The evolution of specific “black sites” in the HVD programme................................................... 15
3. Secret detentions in Council of Europe member states......................................................................16
3.1. The framework........................................................................................................................... 16
3.2. Bilateral arrangements...............................................................................................................24
4. Secret detention operations in Poland............................................................................................... 34
4.1. Partnering with military intelligence in Poland............................................................................ 34
4.2. Responsible political authorities in Poland................................................................................. 36
4.3. The anatomy of CIA secret transfers and detentions in Poland................................................. 37
5. Secret detention operations in Romania............................................................................................ 43
5.1. Partnering with military intelligence in Romania......................................................................... 43
5.2. Responsible political authorities in Romania..............................................................................46
5.3. The anatomy of CIA secret transfers and detentions in Romania.............................................. 47
6. Human rights abuses involved in the CIA secret detention programme............................................. 50
6.1. Re-humanising the people held in secret detention................................................................... 50
6.2. Reconstructing the conditions in a CIA secret detention cell......................................................51
7. Secrecy and cover-up: how the United States and its European partners evade responsibility for CIA
clandestine operations........................................................................................................................... 53
7.1. A case study of Khaled El-Masri................................................................................................ 53
7.2. Complicity and accountability in other rendition cases............................................................... 61
7.3. Proposal by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition (APPG) to improve
the United Kingdom’s mechanisms dealing with rendition requests..................................................64
8. Secret detentions and renditions: the diminishing effect on respect for human rights worldwide....... 64
8.1. Collateral damage of the war on terror: diminishing respect for human rights............................64
8.2. Continued secret detentions in the Chechen Republic and failure to co-operate with the CPT:
unacceptable collateral damage to the values of the Council of Europe........................................... 64
8.3. Alleged secret detentions in Grozny...........................................................................................66
9. Need for consensus solutions to the HVD dilemma whilst ensuring respect for human rights........... 66
9.1. Towards consensus definitions of phrases used in the “war on terror”.......................................67
9.2. Towards consensus standards on interrogation techniques...................................................... 68
9.3. Perceptions of the HVD programme and its likely reactivation...................................................69
9.4. Concluding thoughts.................................................................................................................. 70
Appendix 1 ............................................................................................................................................. 71
Appendix 2 ............................................................................................................................................. 72
Appendix 3 – Relevant flight logs from the Marty database........................................................................ 73
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