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CIA faces new secret jails claim

By Daniel Dombey

Published: January 10 2006 02:00 | Last updated: January 10 2006 02:00

The CIA kept 23 people in a secret prison in Romania and maintained similar facilities in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Macedonia and Kosovo, according to allegations contained in a leaked Swiss intelligence report.

The leak, to Switzerland's SonntagsBlick newspaper, was based on an intercepted fax sent by Egypt's foreign ministry to Egypt's embassy in London in November. Egyptian officials declined to comment yesterday. But Swiss officials said the report was genuine and that its publication had led to an internal inquiry.

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