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| Probe finds CIA had dozens of 'ghost' inmates |
| By Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Published: 09/13/2004 |
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The CIA had dozens of Iraqi "ghost detainees" secretly held at Abu Ghraib prison - a number higher than previously disclosed - so they could be hidden from Red Cross monitors, Army investigators testified last week. Gen. Paul J. Kern and Maj. Gen. George R. Fay told the Senate Armed Services Committee said they asked repeatedly for information on the detainees during their investigations into the abuse of inmates at the Army-run facility outside Baghdad, but the CIA refused to answer. That angered committee members, who pledged to press the agency for the information and to look more closely themselves at the issue. "The situation with the CIA and ghost soldiers is beginning to look like a bad movie," said Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), a prisoner of war during the Vietnam conflict who was mistreated by the North Vietnamese. "This needs to be cleared up rather badly." Previously, the CIA was known to have had eight unregistered detainees at Abu Ghraib. Kern, who oversaw the Army investigation of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, told the Senate committee that Army investigators believe the number "is in the dozens to perhaps up to 100. I cannot give you a precise number." Fay, who investigated military intelligence officers at the prison, said he did not believe the number was as high as 100 but could be "maybe two dozen or so, maybe more." What roles CIA officers might have played in abuses of inmates at Abu Ghraib remains a question following eight high-level investigations into the treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan and at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mark Mansfield, a CIA spokesman, declined comment, saying that the agency's inspector general was conducting a probe into the CIA's handling of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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