Premier Executive Transport Services

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Premier Executive Transport Services is an airline listed as Foreign Corporation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is widely believed to be a front company for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Premier Executive Transport Services apparently only owns two planes: a Gulfstream V with the tail number N44982 (formerly N379P), and a Boeing 737 with the tail number N313P (now N4476S and owned by Keeler & Tate Management). Searches of flight data have shown that these two planes have traveled around the world, including to US military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Witnesses have described seeing hooded and restrained people loaded onto these two planes. It is likely that these passengers were suspected terrorists being brought to US military and CIA detention facilities, such as Camp Delta.

On March 6, 2005, 60 Minutes aired a report in which Khaled el-Masri, German citizen of Lebanese origin, claimed to have been abducted and taken aboard the 737 owned by Premier Executive Transport Services. He said that he was stripped of his clothes by masked Americans, injected with drugs, and taken to an American-run prison in Afghanistan for five months.

Several of the flights by Premier Executive Transport Services have been to countries with notoriously poor human rights records, such as Uzbekistan, raising concerns that the CIA is taking terrorist suspects to other nations so that the suspects may be tortured.