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BY HARUMENDHAH HELMY
 

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We’ve all heard conspiracy theories over the supposedly dark dealings of the CIA.
Now it seems some of those theories could be true.
 

Some journalists and human rights activists discovered documents in the office of former Libyan spy chief, revealing close relationships with the CIA and Britain’s MI6. CNN has the nitty gritty.
 

“They basically document a history of cooperation between the CIA on the one hand and Libya’s external intelligence organization... It really does put a light on a really dark period of U.S. cooperation with some of the worst regimes in the Middle East.”

 

Slate details some of the more shocking findings.
 

“The documents suggest that America sent terrorism suspects for questioning in Libya at least eight times — despite the country’s well-established reputation for torture. Other discoveries: close dealings with Britain’s spy agency MI-6 that included the western country’s agency offering to trace phone numbers for the Libyans.”

 

Sky News focuses its report on the tone of the correspondence between the intelligence agencies--noting how embarrassingly cozy it was.
 

“A Human Rights Watch team in Tripoli has found computer files containing correspondence between Libyan intelligence and MI-6 and the CIA. It’s friendly and informal, to the point of being embarrassing.” 
Human Rights Watch worker: “The documents we found, start off, you know, their faxes saying ‘Dear Moussa, thanks for the oranges you sent us. They were delicious.’ Those kind of cozy relationship with an intelligence service known for torturing and disappearing people.”



But how reliable are these documents? The New York Times addresses that question:
 

“It was impossible to verify their authenticity, and none of them were written on letterhead. But the binders included some documents that made specific reference to the C.I.A., and their details seem consistent with what is known about the transfer of terrorism suspects abroad for interrogation and with other agency practices.”

 

And finally, the New Yorker sheds some light on the man who occupied the office where the documents were found--that is, before he defected against Col. Muammar Gaddafi.
 

“The office had once been the domain of Moussa Koussa, a veteran Qaddafi deputy who, last March, early in the Libyan crisis, abruptly fled the country. He is rumored to have done so with the assistance of … MI6. … Koussa was foreign minister at the time of his flight, and he had previously served as the chief of Qaddafi’s External Intelligence Organization.”

 

The documents cover the years of 2002 to 2007. According to the New York Times, discussions about transferring terror suspects occurred after Libya denounced its weapons of mass destruction program in 2004.
 

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