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The program and the handful of men who passed through these cottages had various official CIA codenames. But those who were aware of the cluster of cottages knew it best by its sobriquet: Penny Lane.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Andy Worthington (2013-11-29). "Penny Lane: What We Learned This Week About Double Agents at Guantánamo". Archived from the original on 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
There, in eight small cottages, the CIA housed and trained a handful of prisoners they had persuaded to become double agents, according to Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, who spoke to around ten current and former US officials for their story. All spoke anonymously "because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the secret program."
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The cottages, which went by the codename Penny Lane, had their own patios, kitchens and private showers. Perhaps most tempting of all, they featured proper beds with regular mattresses.
- ↑ Shoba Rao (2014-12-08). "Secret CIA report containing graphic detail on torture techniques on 9/11 prisoners could endanger lives". The Australian. Archived from the original on 2016-01-31. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
A portion of the Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, including the secret facility known as Penny Lane (in white). In the early years after 9/11, the CIA turned a handful of prisoners at the secret facility into double agents and released them.
- ↑ Joseph V. Micallef (2016-03-01). "Could Barack Obama Give the Guantanamo Naval Base Back to Cuba?". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 2016-09-10. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
There is also a small site, nicknamed "Penny Lane," where inmates that the CIA was attempting to recruit as double agents to spy on al-Qaeda were held.
- ↑ Pratap Chatterjee (2013-12-05). "CIA's disastrous "Bourne" strategy: The agency decided that there was no aspect of secret war which couldn't be corporatized". Salon Magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
Last month, the Associated Press revealed that the CIA had selected a few dozen men from among the hundreds of terror suspects being held at Guantanamo and trained them to be double agents at a cluster of eight cottages in a program dubbed "Penny Lane."
- ↑ Alexander Nazaryan (2015-01-15). "To live and die in Gitmo". Newsweek magazine. Archived from the original on 2016-09-02. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
According to the AP's revelations about "Penny Lane" (someone with a dark sense of humor must have really liked the Beatles: Another CIA site at Guantánamo Bay was dubbed "Strawberry Fields"), this was a site where "CIA officers turned terrorists into double agents and sent them home." The three detainees may have had little intelligence value when captured, but that could have made them precisely the sort of "converts" the CIA sought to release without arousing suspicion among jihadists.
- ↑ "The Guantánamo "Suicides" Revisited: Did CIA Hide Deaths of Tortured Prisoners at Secret Site?". Democracy Now. 2015-05-21. Archived from the original on 2016-09-09. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
The new evidence includes an eyewitness account of al-Zahrani on the night of his death which indicates he may have died from torture and suffocation during questioning at a secret black site facility at Guantánamo known as Camp No, or Penny Lane.