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Report: Defense Intelligence Agency Running Secret Prison at Bagram

HeadlineMay 14, 2010

In news from Afghanistan, the Atlantic Magazine is reporting the Defense Intelligence Agency is running a classified interrogation facility at a secret prison inside the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. The secret site is run by intelligence operatives and interrogators who work for the DIA’s Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center. They perform interrogations for a sub-unit of Task Force 714, an elite counterterrorism brigade. Prisoners held at the site have reported being subjected to sleep deprivation, freezing temperatures and other abuses.

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