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Special Reports: Probe into secret CIA jails in Europe

WARSAW, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of the European Parliament has arrived in Warsaw to continue its probe into alleged prisons, run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Europe, the Polish news agency PAP reported on Wednesday.

The delegation began its three-day work in Poland by meeting the Newsweek journalist in the country, Jaroslaw Gizinski, the report said.

During their stay in Poland, the delegation is to hold talks with journalists, politicians and representatives of non-governmental organizations.

The delegation, sent by a European Parliament special commission in charge of looking into the alleged CIA prisons, earlier visited Washington, Berlin, London and Budapest.

The Polish authorities denied that the CIA had established any secret prisons in the country to imprison suspected terrorists. Last November, the CIA was accused of conducting illegal flights and running secret prisons in Europe.

Dick Marty, a member of the European Council, said in a report in July, 14 European nations had agreed that the CIA could transfer suspected terrorists or operate secret jails on their territories.

WARSAW, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of the special commission of the European Parliament for CIA secret flights and prisons in Europe began its three-day visit in Poland on Wednesday, the PAP news agency reported.

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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (File Photo)
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Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty of Switzerland gestures at a news conference in Paris June 7, 2006. The investigator said on Wednesday that more than a dozen European countries colluded in a "global spider's web" of secret CIA prisons and transfers of terrorism suspects.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

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