Craig Murray - Trying Again to Stop Torture: My Formal Statement for the Joint Committee on Human Rights »

Posted By tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News

My name is Craig Murray. I was British Ambassador in Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004.

As Ambassador in Uzbekistan I regularly received intelligence material released by MI6. This material was given to MI6 by the CIA, mostly originating from their Tashkent station. It was normally issued to me telegraphically by MI6 at the same time it was issued to UK ministers and officials in London.

It became obvious to me after just a few weeks that the CIA material from Uzbekistan was giving precisely the same narrative being extracted by the Uzbek torturers – and that the CIA “intelligence” was giving information far from the truth.

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