Top U.S. officials approved detainees “ghosting”

3/24/2005 7:50:00 PM GMT

Although top U.S. defense officials claimed that the CIA practice of keeping unregistered detainees at Iraq’s Abu Gharib prison was unauthorized, a new army report showed that the “ghosting” program was systematic and approved by three senior intelligence officials in Iraq.


Several other army reports and documents obtained by the Washington Post revealed that unregistered CIA prisoners were brought to Abu Gharib several times a week in late 2003, and that they were kept in a special row of cells.

Army police soldiers developed a rough system to keep track of such detainees with single-digit identification numbers, while others were held unidentified, hidden and unaccounted for.

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