Doc. 11302 Report – N379P from Rabat, arrived in Szymany at 2.23 a.m. on 8 February 2003; – N379P from Kabul, arrived in Szymany at 4 p.m. on 7 March 2003; – N379P from Kabul, arrived in Szymany at 6.03 p.m. on 25 March 2003; – N379P from Kabul, arrived in Szymany at 1 a.m. on 5 June 2003; – N379P from Kabul, arrived in Szymany at 2.58 a.m. on 30 July 2003; – N313P from Kabul, arrived in Szymany at 9 p.m. on 22 September 2003; – N63MU from Kabul, arrived in Szymany at an unrecorded time on 28 July 2005. 183. My first observation regarding the dates of these flights is that several of them conform closely to the dates on which particular “high-value detainees” (HVDs) were transferred to CIA “black sites”, particularly in outward movements from Kabul, Afghanistan. The most conspicuous example pertains to the so-called “mastermind” of the 11 September 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohamed (KSM), who was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 1 March 2003.155Our insider sources have told us that KSM was transferred to a secret CIA facility “within days” of his arrest; and from analysis of materials supporting the 11 September 2001 Commission Report,156we know that the process of interrogating him commenced shortly afterwards,157 and continued throughout 2003. It is noteworthy that the well-known rendition plane N379P undertook a clandestine flight from Kabul to Szymany on 7 March 2003, less than one week after KSM’s arrest. Whilst it is not possible at this stage to state the fact definitively, it is likely that the transfer of KSM and several other HVDs into Poland throughout 2003 took place on the flights uncovered in this report. 184. The full extent of my proof, however, goes beyond merely the number of confirmed flights into Szymany and their concordance with suspected dates of HVD transfers. Through our careful analysis of hundreds of pages of raw aeronautical “data strings”,158we can now demonstrate that in the majority of cases these CIA flights were deliberately disguised so that their actual movements would not be tracked or recorded – either “live” or after the fact – by the supranational air safety agency, Eurocontrol. The system of cover-up entailed several different steps involving both American and Polish collaborators. 155. On the capture of KSM, see, inter alia, B. Raman, “How significant is Khalid Sheikh’s arrest?” on Rediff.com, 3 March 2003, available at http://in.rediff.com/news/2003/mar/03raman.htm; and BBC News Online, “Bush hails ‘al-Qaeda killer’ arrest,” 4 March 2003, available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2817441.stm. 156. The full report and records of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (the “11 September Commission”) are available online at http://www.9-11commission.gov/. In particular, Chapters 5 and 7 of the Commission Report are said to “rely heavily on information obtained from captured al-Qaeda members;” specifically 10 detainees, including Khalid Sheikh Mohamed, “whose custody has been confirmed officially by the United States Government.” See the inset on “detainee interrogation reports”, in Chapter 5, at p. 146. For specific dates on which KSM and other “high-value detainees” were interrogated, see, in particular, “Notes to Chapter 5”, in Notes to the 11 September Commission Report, at pp. 488-499. 157. Interrogations of KSM are dated as early as 12 April 2003, just over a month after his capture; see “Notes to Chapter 5”, 11 September Commission Report, ibid. Further interrogations are dated at frequent intervals throughout 2003 and 2004. 158. “Data strings” are exchanges of messages or digital data (mostly in the form of coded text and numbers) between different entities around the world on a network known as the AFTN (Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network). “Data strings” record all communications filed in relation to each particular aircraft as its flights are planned in advance, and as it flies between different international locations. The filings come from diverse entities, including aviation service providers, ANS (Air Navigation Services) authorities, airport authorities and government agencies. I have obtained complete sets of “data strings” for about 20 flight circuits, which I selectively requested from the AFTN system. The selected circuits include each of the circuits featuring undeclared flights of CIA aircraft into Szymany, as well as circuits featuring landings in Romania and a large number of rendition operations pertaining to individual detainees whose cases I dealt with in my report of 2006. Our team has conducted an in-depth analysis of all these “data strings”, together with information in the Marty database and in consultation with aviation experts. 38