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.[1][2] According to investigative journalists the company does not have any offices or premises, and searches of public records for identifying information about the company's officers have yielded only post office boxes in Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC.[3][4]

Premier Executive Transport Services has apparently owned two planes, both with permits to land at U.S. military bases [5]: a Gulfstream V with the tail number N44982 (formerly N379P and N8068V), and a Boeing 737 with the tail number N313P (now N4476S and owned by Keeler & Tate Management). These planes are reported to have been involved in the CIA's extraordinary rendition program,[6][7] in which suspected terrorists are transported to black sites for interrogation and, allegedly, torture.

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  1. ^ Grey, S. (2006). Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-31-236023-1
  2. ^ Paglen, T. and Thompson, A.C. (2006). Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights. Melville House Publishing. ISBN 1-93-363309-3
  3. ^ Stockman, F. "Terror suspects' torture claims have Mass. link" Boston Globe, 29 Nov 2004 http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/11/29/terror_suspects_torture_claims_have_mass_link?pg=full
  4. ^ "C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights", New York Times, 31 May 2005
  5. ^ Whitlock, C. "A Secret Deportation Of Terror Suspects", Washington Post, 25 July 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11976-2004Jul24.html
  6. ^ Priest, D. "Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War", Washington Post, 27 Dec 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27826-2004Dec26.html
  7. ^ Amnesty International, "Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and ‘disappearance’" report, 5 Apr 2006 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR510512006
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