Vego recalls how the island has been used by the CIA to maintain detention camps. While the U.S. has never publicly confirmed Diego Garcia's controversial role as a CIA "black site" and stopover ...

It has no permanent population, but about 3,000 U.S. and U.K. military personnel and civilian contractors live on the island of Diego Garcia, according to the CIA Factbook. Its U.S. imports ...

The CIA World Factbook describes it as a ... An image released by the U.S. Navy shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia. The largest island of the Chagos Archipelago measures 11.58 square miles.

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The CIA World Factbook says economic activity ... with a combined area of just 60 square kilometres. The largest island, Diego Garcia, is home to a joint U.K.-U.S. military base and 4,000 British ...

That is the exact case of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands ... military personnel and contractors at the Diego Garcia airbase. The CIA Factbook lists its major export as fish, but it ...

The UK has long considered the island an asset. In 1966 we leased it ... In the years following 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA is said to have run “black sites” from Diego Garcia ...

A Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) System site located on Diego Garcia island in the British ... "Currently, the White House, CIA, NASA, the Pentagon, Department ...

Diego Garcia is the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago ... Post-9/11, it has also been allegedly used as a detention centre by the [US intelligence agency] CIA.” “Diego Garcia is the site of a ...

The UK will not sign off on a deal to give up a top secret island to Mauritius until Donald Trump has taken office, Downing Street has said. The islands, located in the Indian Ocean, have been the ...

In early 2008, former CIA Director Michael ... had refuelled at Diego Garcia, though neither suspect had disembarked”. Later, however, it became obvious that the island played a much more ...