Outing the CIA’s Travel Agent
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.26.06 | 7:11 AM ET
It’s San Jose, California-based Jeppesen International Trip Planning, a subsidiary of Boeing, according to a Talk of the Town piece in this week’s issue of The New Yorker. “Boeing does not mention, either on its Web site or in its annual report, that Jeppesen’s clients include the C.I.A., and that among the international trips that the company plans for the agency are secret ‘extraordinary rendition’ flights for terrorism suspects,” Jane Mayer writes. “Most of the planes used in rendition flights are owned and operated by tiny charter airlines that function as C.I.A. front companies, but it is not widely known that the agency has turned to a division of Boeing, the publicly traded blue-chip behemoth, to handle many of the logistical and navigational details for these trips, including flight plans, clearance to fly over other countries, hotel reservations, and ground-crew arrangements.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
