Brussels, 27/08/2009 (Agence Europe) - A Lithuanian parliamentary committee will be investigating the alleged presence of a secret CIA prison on Lithuanian territory, the Lithuanian president and former European budget commissioner, Dalia Grybauskaité, announced in Brussels on Tuesday 25 August. The American news channel, ABC News, which cited a former CIA official, said last Thursday that one of the eight secret CIA prisons in the world for interrogating suspected terrorists after 11 September 2001 was located in Lithuania. “I have no confirmation of this but Lithuania will carry out an inquiry”, Ms Grybauskaité said. “I can only regret that the name of Lithuania appears in this kind of allegation”, she added, saying it will be up to this country to “prove whether this is true or not” through the creation of a parliamentary committee specially set up for the inquiry. According to ABC News, the prison, outside Vilnius, took in eight men and operated until 2005. The rapporteur for the Council of Europe on illegal CIA activities on the continent, Dick Marty of Switzerland, said on Monday that his own sources seemed to confirm press information whereby key detainees were held in Lithuania. (B.C./transl.jl)