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CIA Paid Polish Intel $15 Million for Secret Prison

HeadlineJan 30, 2014

New details have emerged on the Bush-era secret CIA jail used to hold and torture foreign prisoners in Poland. The Washington Post reports the CIA gave Polish counterparts $15 million in cash for use of the prison in 2003. Two interrogators who worked at the prison were removed from Poland after carrying out a mock execution on a prisoner. The Polish government is probing its own hosting of the site, but the case has lagged for years without results.

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