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| CIA, agencies in anti-terror network |
| 2005-11-18 |
| THE CIA hadestablished joint facilities in more than two dozen countries where US and foreign intelligence agents work together to hunt suspected terrorists, The Washington Post reported today. Citing present and former American and foreign intelligence officials, the newspaper said the CIA had operated the joint intelligence centres in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The Americans and their counterparts at the secret Counter-terrorist Intelligence Centres, known as CTICs, make daily decisions on when and how to capture suspects, interrogations and detentions and how to disrupt al-Qaeda support. The CTICs are separate from the covert CIA prisons known as "black sites" that the CIA has run in eight countries, The Washington Post said. It said the CIA would not comment for the article. The newspaper said the CTICs were "part of a fundamental, continuing shift in the CIA's mission that began shortly after the 2001 attacks" and was orchestrated by former CIA director George Tenet. It said the CIA told a congressional committee in a closed-door session this year that the joint intelligence centres accounted for bulk of the agency's anti-terror successes since the September 11, 2001, attacks. |
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