Romania is one of the five countries known for hosting CIA secret prisons, along Poland, Lithuania, Thailand and Afghanistan, according to American newspaper Washington Post, which says the information can be found in the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA, which was made public on December 9.

“At its height, the CIA program included secret prisons in countries including Afghanistan, Thailand, Romania, Lithuania and Poland — locations that are referred to only by color-themed codes in the report, such as “COBALT,” to preserve a veneer of secrecy,” Washington Post reports.

Although the countries haven’t been named directly in the report, Washington Post says that “other details in the report help indicate the locations of the secret prisons”. The secret prison in Romania was coded “BLACK” and several people suspected of terrorism and connections with the al-Qaida terrorist organization were interrogated here.

There have been allegations in the past about Romania and Poland hosting CIA secret prisons, but this is for the first time that this information actually appears in an official document.

The 528-page report shows that CIA performed secret interrogations of terrorism suspects, which were “brutal and far worse” than the Agency represented. These were called “enhanced interrogation techniques”. The whole report has more than 6,000 pages.

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