The Central Intelligence Agency and the Libyan intelligence service developed a close relationship during the George W. Bush that the U.S. sent terror suspects to Libya for questioning, and suggested questions that should be asked, according to the documents found in Libya's foreign headquarters of the security agencies.
The relationship was so close that the CIA moved to establish a "permanent presence" in Libya in 2004, according to a note from Stephen Kappes, the moment at No. 2 in the CIA's clandestine service, then the intelligence Libyan leader, Moussa Kousser.
Libyan Revolution
People in the rebel city of Benghazi on August 22 held a press of the capture of the son of Muammar Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam.
The memo began, "Dear Musa," and was signed by the hand, "Steve." Mr. Kappes was a crucial player in the secret negotiations that led to 2003, the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi decision to give up its nuclear program. Through a spokesman, Mr. Kappes, who has retired from the agency, declined comment.
A U.S. official said that Libya had shown progress over time. "We will take into account the context here: In 2004, the U.S. had successfully convinced the government of Libya to renounce its nuclear weapons program and to help stop terrorists were actively targeting Americans in the U.S. and abroad, "the official said.
Documentation files for the renewal of ties between the CIA and Libyan intelligence were reviewed and copied by Human Rights Watch researchers during a tour of Libyan Foreign, headquarters of the security agencies in central Tripoli. Emergencies Director Peter Bouckaert said he toured the building on Friday as part of the group's efforts to help the Coalition Provisional Authority Libyan security sensitive documents left by the Gaddafi regime, which collapsed in August after a five-month rebellion.
Mr. Bouckaert said they discovered files in the complex in a room that described the guards as the ancient office of Lord Kousser, who became foreign minister in 2009. Mr. Bouckaert photographed documents, leaving the originals in place, and gave a copy to The Wall Street Journal.
Human Rights Watch has criticized U.S. policy sending terrorism suspects to third countries for interrogation, a practice known as rendition. The practice dates back at least until 1995, when Egypt began to help the U.S. to surrender.
U.S. Officials say he has received assurances from recipient countries that the detainees was treated humanely. "There are plenty of countries willing to take the terrorists on the street who want to kill Americans," the U.S. official said. "That does not mean that U.S. concerns about human rights are ignored in the process."
In an April 15, 2004 letter to Libyan intelligence, the CIA proposed the surrender of another man, saying, "We respectfully request an expression of interest from his service in respect of custody to make."
Citing "recent agreements developed," CIA asked the Libyans to "undertake to adopt our final reporting requirements of [the suspect], as well as a guarantee that [their] human rights are protected."
Mr. Kousser, who deserted the government's Colonel Gaddafi in March, was credited with helping to negotiate the rapprochement of Libya to the international community and the exchange end of sanctions in exchange for giving up its weapons of mass destruction, Libya's program.
However, it was also one of the stalwarts of the regime of Gadhafi and directed the foreign intelligence service in a time when many Western officials believe Colonel Gaddafi was funding and support for international terrorist groups. In 1980, he was expelled from his diplomatic post in the UK after calling in an interview for the murder of Libyan dissidents in the United Kingdom. Libya later claimed he had been misunderstood.
In the early years of the George W. Bush, however, as seen in the note of 2004, Mr. Kappes was written to Mr. Kousser, "Libya's cooperation on weapons of mass destruction and other issues as well as intelligence cooperation means that now is emerging the right time to move forward. "
The intelligence services had discussed the move "a long time," wrote Mr. Kappes.
Files provide an extraordinary window into the highly secretive and controversial practice of rendition, so the agency sends detainees to other countries for interrogation, including the known abuse of prisoners. The program was up ramps for terror detainees after the Sept. 11 attacks.
In taking over the CIA in the beginning of the Obama administration, then-director, Leon Panetta, said the agency will continue to use the delivery, but seek assurances that the detainee would not be tortured, which was the political position of U.S.. Mr. Panetta left the CIA two months ago to head the Pentagon.
"We look forward to working with you in the interrogation of terrorists who recently rendered to his country," he wrote in the memorandum of Kappes, adding that he would send two more officers to Libya to question a suspect directly.
The documents show that the logistical hurdles of the rendition program with experience as Hong Kong's refusal to allow a Libyan plane to land, the requirements to show valid insurance documents, and certificates of airworthiness.
In some documents, the CIA provided intelligence Libyans a long list of questions I wanted to have raised a suspect in custody of Tripoli, a Libyan-Canadian accused Western intelligence agencies to be a leader of the Islamic Fighting Group in Libya , a now defunct U.S. group suspected of having links with Al Qaeda. The Americans wanted to know, among other things, whether the man had relations with the persons named in Cincinnati, Seattle and Los Angeles or companies in the U.S. Colorado from an auto-sales company to a global shipping company in California.
Many of the questions U.S. intelligence officials wanted posed to the suspect about other alleged members of the organization.
Another document says that the CIA was aware that Libyan intelligence was cooperating with the British to take Tripoli a suspected militant leader who was being held in Hong Kong for immigration violations.
An April 6, 2004 memo titled "Iraqi Scientists," asked the CIA Libyan intelligence agents to allow U.S. interview several Iraqi scientists who lived in Libya, part of a postwar struggle to determine the fate of alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
In a note with the subject "suspected terrorist cell planning attacks against Libya by U.S. interests," asked the CIA to help locate a suspect of "operational cell" in Libya suspected of being in contact with Al Qaeda in Iraq. The CIA said he feared that U.S. government officials and commercial interests in Libya attacked.
The relationship was so close that the CIA moved to establish a "permanent presence" in Libya in 2004, according to a note from Stephen Kappes, the moment at No. 2 in the CIA's clandestine service, then the intelligence Libyan leader, Moussa Kousser.
Libyan Revolution
People in the rebel city of Benghazi on August 22 held a press of the capture of the son of Muammar Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam.
The memo began, "Dear Musa," and was signed by the hand, "Steve." Mr. Kappes was a crucial player in the secret negotiations that led to 2003, the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi decision to give up its nuclear program. Through a spokesman, Mr. Kappes, who has retired from the agency, declined comment.
A U.S. official said that Libya had shown progress over time. "We will take into account the context here: In 2004, the U.S. had successfully convinced the government of Libya to renounce its nuclear weapons program and to help stop terrorists were actively targeting Americans in the U.S. and abroad, "the official said.
Documentation files for the renewal of ties between the CIA and Libyan intelligence were reviewed and copied by Human Rights Watch researchers during a tour of Libyan Foreign, headquarters of the security agencies in central Tripoli. Emergencies Director Peter Bouckaert said he toured the building on Friday as part of the group's efforts to help the Coalition Provisional Authority Libyan security sensitive documents left by the Gaddafi regime, which collapsed in August after a five-month rebellion.
Mr. Bouckaert said they discovered files in the complex in a room that described the guards as the ancient office of Lord Kousser, who became foreign minister in 2009. Mr. Bouckaert photographed documents, leaving the originals in place, and gave a copy to The Wall Street Journal.
Human Rights Watch has criticized U.S. policy sending terrorism suspects to third countries for interrogation, a practice known as rendition. The practice dates back at least until 1995, when Egypt began to help the U.S. to surrender.
U.S. Officials say he has received assurances from recipient countries that the detainees was treated humanely. "There are plenty of countries willing to take the terrorists on the street who want to kill Americans," the U.S. official said. "That does not mean that U.S. concerns about human rights are ignored in the process."
In an April 15, 2004 letter to Libyan intelligence, the CIA proposed the surrender of another man, saying, "We respectfully request an expression of interest from his service in respect of custody to make."
Citing "recent agreements developed," CIA asked the Libyans to "undertake to adopt our final reporting requirements of [the suspect], as well as a guarantee that [their] human rights are protected."
Mr. Kousser, who deserted the government's Colonel Gaddafi in March, was credited with helping to negotiate the rapprochement of Libya to the international community and the exchange end of sanctions in exchange for giving up its weapons of mass destruction, Libya's program.
However, it was also one of the stalwarts of the regime of Gadhafi and directed the foreign intelligence service in a time when many Western officials believe Colonel Gaddafi was funding and support for international terrorist groups. In 1980, he was expelled from his diplomatic post in the UK after calling in an interview for the murder of Libyan dissidents in the United Kingdom. Libya later claimed he had been misunderstood.
In the early years of the George W. Bush, however, as seen in the note of 2004, Mr. Kappes was written to Mr. Kousser, "Libya's cooperation on weapons of mass destruction and other issues as well as intelligence cooperation means that now is emerging the right time to move forward. "
The intelligence services had discussed the move "a long time," wrote Mr. Kappes.
Files provide an extraordinary window into the highly secretive and controversial practice of rendition, so the agency sends detainees to other countries for interrogation, including the known abuse of prisoners. The program was up ramps for terror detainees after the Sept. 11 attacks.
In taking over the CIA in the beginning of the Obama administration, then-director, Leon Panetta, said the agency will continue to use the delivery, but seek assurances that the detainee would not be tortured, which was the political position of U.S.. Mr. Panetta left the CIA two months ago to head the Pentagon.
"We look forward to working with you in the interrogation of terrorists who recently rendered to his country," he wrote in the memorandum of Kappes, adding that he would send two more officers to Libya to question a suspect directly.
The documents show that the logistical hurdles of the rendition program with experience as Hong Kong's refusal to allow a Libyan plane to land, the requirements to show valid insurance documents, and certificates of airworthiness.
In some documents, the CIA provided intelligence Libyans a long list of questions I wanted to have raised a suspect in custody of Tripoli, a Libyan-Canadian accused Western intelligence agencies to be a leader of the Islamic Fighting Group in Libya , a now defunct U.S. group suspected of having links with Al Qaeda. The Americans wanted to know, among other things, whether the man had relations with the persons named in Cincinnati, Seattle and Los Angeles or companies in the U.S. Colorado from an auto-sales company to a global shipping company in California.
Many of the questions U.S. intelligence officials wanted posed to the suspect about other alleged members of the organization.
Another document says that the CIA was aware that Libyan intelligence was cooperating with the British to take Tripoli a suspected militant leader who was being held in Hong Kong for immigration violations.
An April 6, 2004 memo titled "Iraqi Scientists," asked the CIA Libyan intelligence agents to allow U.S. interview several Iraqi scientists who lived in Libya, part of a postwar struggle to determine the fate of alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
In a note with the subject "suspected terrorist cell planning attacks against Libya by U.S. interests," asked the CIA to help locate a suspect of "operational cell" in Libya suspected of being in contact with Al Qaeda in Iraq. The CIA said he feared that U.S. government officials and commercial interests in Libya attacked.
