CIA Ghost Flights Over Canada

There is no Devon Holding and Leasing Inc. at 129 W. Center St. in Lexington, N.C. There is no phone listing. The city offices have never heard of it; neither has the Chamber of Commerce. The law offices of James A. Gleason are at 129 W. Center St., but five days of inquiries there failed to yield an answer to this simple question: Does anyone in this office know of a company called Devon Holding and Leasing? It is almost certainly a CIA shell company, existing on paper only, and the turboprop was likely carrying a "ghost" prisoner to a country where torture is used during interrogations. Such covert flights, known as "extraordinary renditions," became infamous in Canada in the case of Maher Arar, the Ottawa man who was tortured in Syria after being whisked away from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport as a suspected terrorist. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- `The government of Canada has no information to substantiate allegations about links between those flights and the CIA' Zuwena Robidas, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The New York-based Human Rights Watch says it knows the United States is holding at least 26 "ghost detainees" at undisclosed sites around the world. Many of the suspected rendition flights have been flagged by recreational "tail-spotters" who have turned their hobby of identifying aircraft tail numbers into a valuable Internet data source. "It's careless tradecraft," says John Pike, an expert on U.S. intelligence matters at GlobalSecurity.org. "They (the CIA) have allowed the tail-spotters into the game and they have not come to grips with the advent of the Internet, and not come to grips with the massive parallel processing which is underway with all those tail-spotters." The planes are supposed to be registered with legitimate companies, so they just blend in and can't be traced to the CIA, Pike says. "Why do you think they call it covert?" The true nature of the St. John's flights might also never come to light. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1133651412559&call_pageid=968332188854 And Related: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1133651412562 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on December 5, 2005]

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