Ghost Plane
The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
by Stephen Grey
Hardcover: 384 pagesPublisher: St. Martin’s Press (October 2006) ISBN: 0312360231 / 978-0312360238
Publisher’s Description
... Stephen Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism.
Using contacts ... inside the U.S. Government, Grey reveals how deeply the Bush administration is involved in the program and questions the truth of statements made by [the] Secretary of State ... . He also shines a spotlight on the heads of European nations who turned a blind eye to the program when it showed up in their back yards. ...
Through his unprecedented access to CIA flight records and dozens of sources at the senior levels of the current administration, Grey has produced a story of flight plans, extreme torture, and the clash of religions and governmental posturing that goes on today. Ghost Plane tells the stories of individuals abducted at airports around the world and transported for interrogation and torture on a fleet of leased planes manned by CIA operatives.
Grey ... lays the responsibility for abduction and torture at the doorstep of Washington, D.C.
Contents
The Principal Characters
Prologue: Inside the Palestine Branch, Syria
Introduction: Not for the Squeamish
PART ONE: DESTINATION TORTURE
1 The Men in Black
2 The Fog of War: The “Confessions” of a Dirty Bomber from England
3 Maher Arar
4 Mistaken Identity: A German Citizen’s Journey to an Afghan Hell
PART TWO: AIR AMERICA
5 Covert Action: Unmasking the New Air America
6 Covert Action: The Secret War Against Al Qaeda
PART THREE: BACKLASH
7 The Ice Man
8 The Special Relationship: Our Man in Tashkent
9 The Italian Job