Files Show CIA Worked Closely with Libyan Spy Agency
Documents suggest the agency sent terrorism suspects, despite reports of torture
The files left behind by the head of Col. Muammar Qaddafi's spy agency suggest that the Central Intelligence Agency worked closely with the Libyan government, and may have sent terrorism suspects to the north African nation, despite the country's reputation for torturing dissidents.
The story told by the spy documents plays out across major international news outlets, which note that the temporary warming of U.S. officials to Libya in the last decade had been widely known, especially since the country abandoned its nuclear proliferation efforts. But the extent of the CIA's cooperation with Libya's spying apparatus had been a key secret.
From The New York Times:
The documents were discovered "by journalists and Human Rights Watch," in a handful of looseleaf binders left behind as the Qaddafi regime fled, The Times reports. The discovery would also suggest that Libyan record-keeping was perhaps not as covert as it could have been. One of the binders was marked "C.I.A.," and the other two were marked "MI-6," the names of the intelligence agencies of the U.S. and the United Kingdom, respectively.
The papers were found in the offices of Moussa Koussa, the former spy chief, and they brought immediate condemnation of the Western governments for condoning mistreatment of suspects.
From the BBC: