Last week Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis made a report on CIA secret prisons. The report says that 46 states have denied the existence of any such facilities on their soil. Commenting on the statements made by European countries on the subject, Terry Davis emphasized that a whole number of countries had submitted "incomplete or vague" reports. Among other countries on the "black list" of the Council of Europe is Ukraine. As is known, Ukraine had been mentioned, among others, in the scandalous publication in Swiss newspaper "Sonntag Blick" at the beginning of January this year. At that time Swiss military intelligence had leaked that Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Kosovo had allowed the CIA to run its secret prisons on their territories. Notably, Romania, Bulgaria and Kosovo had already been mentioned in the course of the CIA prison scandal, but it was for the first time that Ukraine was mentioned among their number. Ukrainian and foreign media had immediately remembered the strange blitz-visit paid by CIA director Porter Goss to Kiev in December of 2005. Reports of that mysterious visit had appeared in the press only some time later and had been very vague. After the publication in the "Sonntag Blick" well-grounded suppositions had been voiced that P. Goss might have had talks with Ukrainian President V. Yushchenko on issues related to the CIA prisons on Ukrainian soil. At the end of January Mexican newspaper "Unomasuno" also published an article about CIA prisons in Europe. The article claimed that Ukraine was adapting some facilities of its military infrastructure to accommodate sensitive US intelligence operations. According to the newspaper, in summer of 2005 some mysterious construction work began at a military facility "Makarov-1" (former nuclear ammunitions depot in the Kiev-Svyatoshin district) near Kiev. The unit commander was ordered to organize high-security protection of the base perimeter. Each sentry received a tough briefing, and guard patrols were strictly forbidden not only to allow unauthorized persons on the territory of the facility, but to enter it themselves as well. At about the same time Ukrainian Minister of Defense Anatoli Gritsenko ordered to urgently renovate a military airfield near Zhitomir so that it could receive US jet aircraft. Soon after that a small transport plane of the US Air Force, type "Gulfstream", was spotted over Ukrainian territory. It might have landed on the airfield in question. It is aircraft of exactly that type that international human rights groups, in particular "Amnesty International", have named as being used by the CIA in its clandestine operations. http://www.inforos.com/?id=11554