Rights group sues Boeing over CIA transfers

05/31/2007

Company accused of transporting abducted foreigners to overseas prisons


NEW YORK (MSNBC) - The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a unit of Boeing Co., charging that it assisted the Central Intelligence Agency in secretly abducting suspect foreigners to overseas prisons where they were held and interrogated.

The ACLU said it would file a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a Boeing unit that provides flight and logistics support to plane operators, later on Wednesday.

The suit, to be filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is on behalf of three people the ACLU said had been abducted by the CIA.

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