Tripoli, Sept 3 (ANI): Secret documents found in Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's abandoned office have revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) shared a close relation with the Libyan intelligence service.
According to the New York Times, Americans sent terrorism suspects at least eight times for questioning in Libya despite the country's reputation for torture.
Although it has been known that Western intelligence services began cooperating with Libya after it abandoned its program to build unconventional weapons in 2004, the left over files reveal that the cooperation between both the countries were much intense than earlier thought.
Some documents indicate that the British agency was even willing to trace phone numbers for the Libyans, and another appears to be a proposed speech written by the Americans for Gaddafi about renouncing unconventional weapons, the paper said.
Reports suggest that some documents the C.I.A., and the transfer of terrorism suspects abroad for interrogation and with other agency practices.
Although the scope of prisoner transfers to Libya has not been made public, news media reports had mentioned in a couple of occasions that it is one country that the United States used as part of its much criticized rendition program for terrorism suspects.
A C.I.A. spokeswoman, however declined to comment on the documents, but only added: "It can't come as a surprise that the Central Intelligence Agency works with foreign governments to help protect our country from terrorism and other deadly threats."
The British Foreign Office said: "It is the longstanding policy of the government not to comment on intelligence matters."
The documents cover 2002 to 2007, with many of them concentrated in late 2003 and 2004, when Moussa Koussa was head of the External Security Organization. (ANI)
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