(CBS 5) SAN JOSE You’ve heard about Abu Ghraib prison, Guantanamo Bay, and a
host of other places where torture is alleged to have happened. But you’ve
probably never heard that a company in downtown San Jose is said to have
helped the Central Intelligence Agency get prisoners to the alleged torture
sites.

The 16th floor of a gleaming tower on West Santa Clara Street is home to the
Jeppesen corporation’s International Trip and Flight Planning office.

But Charlotte Casey of South Bay Mobilization says they should be called the
travel agents of terror.

“I really felt ill, sick to my stomach, that this was happening in San
Jose,” Casey said.

Casey is responding to an investigation by The New Yorker magazine that said
Jeppesen regularly arranges what they call “spook flights” for the CIA.

Aboard Boeing 737 business jets were shackled and hooded passengers accused
of terrorism, The New Yorker reported in its Oct. 30 issue. They were
sometimes stripped nude and chained to the cabin floor, the magazine said.

Casey said the CIA calls it “extraordinary rendition.”

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