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Author:
Paglen, Trevor.
Title:
Torture taxi : on the trail of the CIA's rendition flights / Trevor Paglen, A.C. Thompson.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Melville House,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
205 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Subject:
United States.--Central Intelligence Agency.
Political prisoners--United States.
Torture--United States.
Intelligence service--United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001---Social aspects.
War on Terrorism, 2001---Political aspects.
Other Authors:
Thompson, A. C.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205).
Summary:
In this first book to systematically investigate extraordinary rendition, an award-winning investigative journalist and a "military geographer" explore the CIA program in a series of journeys that takes them around the world. They travel to suburban Massachusetts to profile a CIA front company that supplies the agency with airplanes; to Smithfield, North Carolina, to meet pilots who fly CIA aircraft; to the San Francisco suburbs to study with a "planespotter" who tracks the CIA's movements; and to Afghanistan, where the authors visit the notorious "Salt Pit" prison and meet released Afghan detainees.
ISBN:
9781933633091
1933633093
OCLC:
(OCoLC)71814928
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

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