Premier Executive Transport Services
 Boeing 737-700 of PETS in Frankfurt, Germany, on 11 January 2003 | |||||||
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Premier Executive Transport Services was an airline listed as Foreign Corporation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is alleged to be a front company for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2] According to investigative journalists the company does not have any offices or premises, and searches of public records for identifying information about the company's officers have yielded only post office boxes in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., and also known as P LLC[citation needed] in Wyoming.[3][4]
Premier Executive Transport Services has apparently owned two planes, both with permits to land at U.S. military bases:[5] a Gulfstream V with the tail number N44982 (formerly N379P and N8068V), and a Boeing 737 with the tail number N313P (now N720MM and owned by MGM Mirage.[6]) These planes are reported to have been involved in the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, in which suspected terrorists are transported to black sites to be interrogated and, allegedly, tortured.[7][8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Grey, S. (2006). Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-36023-1.
- ^ Paglen, T. and Thompson, A.C. (2006). Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights. Melville House Publishing. ISBN 1-933633-09-3.
- ^ Stockman, Farah (29 November 2004). "Terror suspects' torture claims have Mass. link". Boston.com.
- ^ Shane, Scott; Grey, Stephen; Williams, Margot; Shane, Written By Mr (2005-05-31). "C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
- ^ Whitlock, Craig (25 July 2004). "A Secret Deportation Of Terror Suspects". The Washington Post.
- ^ "N720MM MGM Mirage Boeing 737-7BC(BBJ) - cn 33010 / ln 1037". 14 December 2006. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ Priest, Dana (27 December 2004). "Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and 'disappearance'". Amnesty International. 5 April 2006. Archived from the original on 16 April 2006.
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