Torture Taxi

Torture Taxi
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Publisher : Melville House Publishing
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X030113964
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Download or read book Torture Taxi written by Trevor Paglen and published by Melville House Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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