| 26.08.200910:25 (GMT) | Russian TV channel for viewers abroad, Russia Today, announced it had found a possible place of a secret United States CIA prison in Lithuania. It said the detained terrorists could have been kept in a former Soviet military base Rudninkai, 40 km from the capital city of Vilnius. The TV channel did not mention the source on which the report was based.
«In a silent, light place, near the capital of Lithuania a dark secret has been kept. Just here, in the distance of 20 minutes driving from Vilnius, there is a prison in which supposedly the suspects were held and tortured», the Russia Today reported in English.
The leader of Lithuanian political party Frontas, Algirdas Paleckis, grandson of the Stalinist Communist party leader in Lithuania Justas Paleckis, interviewed by the Russian TV channel for viewers abroad, explained that the foreign policy of Lithuania carried out in last 20 years allowed to believe that such a camp of the CIA prisoners could be located in Lithuania.
Meanwhile the former President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus declared that the report of the ABC News that Lithuania was allegedly used for a CIA prison, said it was a news for him, online paper Penki kontinentai notes. The other ex-President and Prime Minister, Algirdas Brazauskas, called the report nothing but pipe-dreams, according to the online paper, „It is the first time I hear about it. I was the Prime Minister then, however, I do not now anything about such things in Lithuania. Nothing but pipe-dreams.”
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