How a CIA Base Works

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How do CIA bases operate on foreign soil? Where are they concealed? What occurs inside them?

SOURCES :-
[1] US Passport Service Guide - Types of US Passports
https://www.us-passport-service-guide.com/types-of-passports.html

[2] Wikileaks - Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed (2017)
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

[3] Wikileaks - Vault 7: EDG Familiarization TDY (2017)
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26607630.html

[4] U.S. Embassy - U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt (2018)
https://de.usembassy.gov/u-s-consulate-general-frankfurt/

[5] Der Spiegel - Der Unheimliche Freund (2013)
https://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-cia-berlin-spy-nest.pdf

[6] The Week - Inside the secret world of America's top eavesdropping spies (2015)
https://theweek.com/articles/476482/inside-secret-world-americas-eavesdropping-spies

[7] EU Migration and Home Affairs - Schengen Area
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-and-visa/schengen-area_en

[8] Excerpt of 1998 description by John Pike, FAS, of the CIA's Special Training Center
https://cryptome.org/eyeball/peary-2010/peary-2010.htm

[9] Washington Post - Down on 'The Farm': Learning How to Spy for the CIA (1980)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/02/19/down-on-the-farm-learning-how-to-spy-for-the-cia/fbe2f23c-ab8d-4fba-aab2-1c1da55f1c53/

[10] The Atlantic - Satellite Images of the CIA's Secret Bin Laden Training Facility
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/satellite-images-capture-cias-secret-bin-laden-training-facility/322676/

[11] Wikileaks - CIA Assessment on Surviving Secondary Screening at Airports While Maintaining Cover (2011)
https://wikileaks.org/cia-travel/secondary-screening/WikiLeaks_CIA_Assessment_on_Surviving_Secondary_Screening.pdf

[12] The Intercept - The US Spy Hub In The Heart Of Australia (2017)
https://theintercept.com/2017/08/19/nsa-spy-hub-cia-pine-gap-australia/

[13] News.com.au - Pine Gap ‘Spy base’ Alice Springs: What you never knew about top-secret facility (2016)
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/pine-gap-spy-base-alice-springs-what-you-never-knew-about-topsecret-facility/news-story/b684b7e9ea355860379e50498f236486

[14] Tom Gilling - Project Rainfall: The Secret History of Pine Gap (2019)
[15] The Nautilus Institute - The militarisation of Pine Gap: Organisations and Personnel (2015)
https://nautilus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-militarisation-of-Pine-Gap.pdf

[16] The Nautilus Institute - Pine Gap – an introduction (2015)
https://nautilus.org/publications/books/australian-forces-abroad/defence-facilities/pine-gap/pine-gap-intro/

[17] The Nautilus Institute - The SIGINT Satellites of Pine Gap: Conception, Development and in Orbit (2015)
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/51344115.pdf

[18] TechCrunch - Uncovering ECHELON: The Top-Secret NSA/GCHQ Program That Has Been Watching You Your Entire Life (2015)
https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/03/uncovering-echelon-the-top-secret-nsa-program-that-has-been-watching-you-your-entire-life/

[19] The Guardian - XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

[20] Reuters - IKEA to open in Cyprus in September (2017)
https://www.reuters.com/article/cyprus-fourlis-ikea-idUSL2323122520070723/

[21] The Nautilus Institute - Management of Operations at Pine Gap (2015)
https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/management-of-operations-at-pine-gap/?view=pdf

[22] The Bureau Investigates - Drone Strikes in Afghanistan
https://web.archive.org/web/20180624010404/https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/drone-war/afghanistan

[23] The Nautilus Institute - Pine Gap: Gaza and genocide – Is Australia Culpable? (2024)
https://nautilus.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PPT-27-March-Pine-Gap-Gaza-and-genocide-%E2%80%93-is-Australia-culpable.pdf

[24] The Wall Street Journal - U.S. Relied on Intercepts in Assessing Hamas’s Operations at Gaza Hospital (2023)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-relied-on-intercepts-in-assessing-hamass-operations-at-gaza-hospital-0d99e623

[25] ABC News - Why do protests keep happening at the Australian-US Defence facility Pine Gap near Alice Springs? (2023)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-27/pine-gap-military-base-nt-why-are-protests-happening/103153696

[26] The Sydney Morning Herald - Christian protesters arrested at Pine Gap (2006)
https://www.smh.com.au/national/christian-protesters-arrested-at-pine-gap-20061008-gdojxa.html

[27] Christians against All Terrorism - Liberating Pine Gap (2007)
https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/pg4-pdf.pdf

[28] David Rosenberg, Inside Pine Gap (2011), p. 135-136, 140.

[29] Bush Admits CIA "Black Sites" (2006)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/secret-us-prisons-bush-admits-cia-black-sites-a-435736.html

[30] The New York Times - Bush Team Approved C.I.A. Tactics, but Was Kept in Dark on Details, Report Says (2014)
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/world/cia-kept-bush-ill-informed-on-interrogation-tactics-torture-report-says.html?_r=0

[31] The New York Times - The Guantánamo Docket (2024)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html

[32] DW - The 'forever prisoners' of Guantanamo (2022)
https://www.dw.com/en/the-forever-prisoners-of-guantanamo/a-60383087

[33] BBC - Architect of CIA's 'enhanced interrogation' testifies at Guantánamo tribunal (2020)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51201558

[34] The New York Times - What the C.I.A.’s Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured (2019)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-drawings.html

[35] Der Spiegel - The Guantanamo File on Germany's Murat Kurnaz (2011)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/an-innocent-in-the-terror-prison-the-guantanamo-file-on-germany-s-murat-kurnaz-a-759343.html

[36] The Rendition Project - CIA Torture Unredacted
https://www.therenditionproject.org.uk/documents/RDI/190710-TRP-TBIJ-CIA-Torture-Unredacted-Full.pdf

[37] Open Society - Globalizing Torture (2013)
https://www.justiceinitiative.org/uploads/655bbd41-082b-4df3-940c-18a3bd9ed956/globalizing-torture-20120205.pdf

[38] ACLU - U.S. Torture: Complicity and Accountability
https://www.aclu.org/us-torture-complicity-and-accountability

[39] European Center for Constitutional and Human rights - CIA Extraordinary Rendition (2009)
https://www.ecchr.eu/fileadmin/Publikationen/Extraordinary_Rendition_SecondEdition_online.pdf

[40] Huffington Post - New CIA Docs Detail Brutal "Extraordinary Rendition" Process (2017)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-cia-docs-detail-bruta_n_271299

[41] ACLU - Background Paper on CIA’s Combines Use of Interrogation Technique (2004)
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/torturefoia/released/082409/olcremand/2004olc97.pdf

[42] The New York Times - A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails (2009)
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/13foggo.html

[43] Süddeutsche Zeitung - Hier CIA, Außenstelle Frankfurt (2010)
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/us-geheimgefaengnisse-hier-cia-aussenstelle-frankfurt-1.170248

[44] FrankfurterRundschau - CIA-Basis Frankfurt (2019)
https://www.fr.de/politik/cia-basis-frankfurt-11479191.html

[45] New York Times - C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights (2005)
https://cryptome.org/eyeball/peary/peary-eyeball.htm

[46] European Parliament - Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006)
https://www.anstageslicht.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Geschichten/Die_Entfuehrung_des_El_MASRI/FAVA_8.pdf

[47] flightaware.com's tracking records for N2189M as at 5th June, 2006
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=File:N2189M-flightaware-5-June-2006.jpg

[48] The Washington Post - The hidden history of the CIA’s prison in Poland (2014)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-hidden-history-of-the-cias-prison-in-poland/2014/01/23/b77f6ea2-7c6f-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html

[49] Reuters - European court says CIA ran secret jail in a Polish forest (2014)
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0FT0TX/

[50] LA Times - Poland feels sting of betrayal over CIA ‘black site’ (2015)
https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-poland-cia-blacksite-20150510-story.html

[51] The Telegraph - Polish president admits Poland agreed to host secret CIA 'black site' (2014)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-hidden-history-of-the-cias-prison-in-poland/2014/01/23/b77f6ea2-7c6f-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html

[52] European Court of Human Rights - Secret Detention Sites (2024)
https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/fs_secret_detention_eng

[53] The Guardian - Secret prisons: Obama's order to close 'black sites' (2009)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/23/secret-prisons-closure-obama-cia

[54] NPR - Guantánamo Bay is still open. This week, pressure ramped up to close it (2024)
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/11/1223926279/guantanamo-bay-joe-biden-cuba-september-11