21/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - The daily, Rzeczpospolita, revealed on 15 April that Poland gave cover to a secret CIA prison for holding and interrogating suspected terrorists outside all judiciary control. After December 2001, Poland is reported to have rented part of the Stare Kiejkuty military base located in the north-west of the country to the CIA. About 20 Polish secret service agents are said to have assisted CIA members. Illegal flights carrying the alleged terrorists are said to have begun in 2002, heading for Szymany, a nearby airport. After the first accusations were made in 2005, successive governments of Poland have systematically denied the existence of secret CIA sites on their territory. At the end of 2008, the Polish public prosecutor's office opened investigations into the presumed existence of these secret prisons (EUROPE 9729). (B.C./transl.jl)