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Despite European court rulings that the Baltic country house is a secret prison, the factor has remained shrouded in official secrecy in a country strongly allied with the United States.
By Andrew Higgins
Andrew Higgins vid Antaviliai, that of a former CIA agent in Lithuania, to report this article.
First came boxes loaded with fabrics for an isolated building undergoing renovation at the edge of the forest. It housed a riding academy and a cafeteria, but was in the process of being reconfigured for a mysterious project.
Then muscular young men appeared, running through the trees for hours and talking to each other in English.
Juozas Banevicius, who watched the comings and goings in the small town of Antaviliai, Lithuania, just 20 years ago, remembers noticing a bit of the newcomers chasing away anyone who came near the security fence they had erected around his property. which in the past was open to the public.
“No one knew what they were doing inside,” Mr. Banevicius recalled, years ago.
The backlash was the subject of intense media and judicial scrutiny in the years that followed. All of this leads to the same conclusion: the town of Antaviliai is home to a secret CIA organization. Detention and torture center, one of the 3 so-called black sites that the company created in Eastern Europe after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
In January, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that a secret criminal named Site Violet had been located “beyond doubt” in Lithuania. He has not been named Antaviliai, which is near the capital, Vilnius, but the village is the only position in the country that the Lithuanian government has identified as the site of a former CIA institution, even though they insist it is not a criminal.
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