Secret CIA flights made stopovers in Portugal in 2005
CIA planes linked to the transport of alleged terror suspects made stopovers at Portuguese airports as recently as May 2005, weekly magazine "Focus" reported Wednesday, one week after the government said no such flights had taken place since it came to office in March. The magazine published photos of four white planes, whose tail numbers are visible and which it said match those belonging to the US spy agency, taken at Portuguese airports at the end of March and in May by an aviation buff. One of the planes touched down at Tires airport near Lisbon while the remaining three landed in Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores archipelago where the US has a military base, the magazine said. Last week it published photos several years old of two unmarked planes at Francisco Sa Carneiro international airport, in the northern city of Oporto, which it said were regularly used by the CIA to carry terror suspects. Reacting to that report, both Foreign Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral and Defence Minister Luis Amado said no CIA planes had made stopovers in Portugal, at least since the Socialists came to power.
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