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Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake:German Citizen Released After Months in 'Rendition'

Date: December 4, 2005

Author: Dana Priest

QUOTE: Coats informed the German minister that the CIA had wrongfully imprisoned one of its citizens...There was also a request: that the German government not disclose what it had been told...The case also shows how complicated it can be to correct errors in a system built and operated in secret.

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Key People:

• George John Tenet MIA

Key Organizations:

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• State Department/Department of State (DOS)
• Washington Post Newspaper

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • International Relations/Diplomacy
      • War/Military
        • Terrorism (conceptual)
          • Societal Reactions
        • Treatment of Combatants
        • Treatment of Non-Combatants
    • National Security / Secrecy

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Rights / Equal Protection
    • Arrests/Habeas Corpus
    • Fair Trials
  • Criminal Law
    • Criminal Justice System
      • Punishments / Prisons
  • Non-US systems: International Law

• Europe
  • Western / Southern Europe
    • Germany

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

• Worldwide

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