Kogalniceanu Base Commander Denies CIA Prisoner Site Existence
Vasile said that in his 18 years of service, there have never been any CIA flights landing at the airbase.
In 2005 Vasile was the airbases spokesperson and the “guide” of all reporters that came to the Kogalniceanu airbase following an article that had appeared in the Washington Post regarding CIA terror suspects transfer from the location.
He added that in 2005, the ministry of defense allowed reporters to visit the airbase so that they may see that no CIA flights or terror suspects exist there.
The official said that no American airplanes have ever landed near the airbase nor stayed there under surveillance for several days.
“Not even when US former secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, came to Kogalniceanu airbase was his plane guarded,” the commander said.
A high rank Romanian official, who wished to remain anonymous, declared that he witnessed a suspicious parcel exchange at Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase, according to the Washington Post.
According to the official, three times in 2004 and twice in 2005 large, mysterious parcels were exchanged that looked like bundled-up terror suspects.