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PM calls for reform of VSD in the wake of CIA prison probe
2009-12-22 12:32
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Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius on Tuesday called for sweeping reforms to Lithuania's spy agency after a report revealed that senior agents obscured their activities from the eyes of government.
The report released on Tuesday by a parliamentary inquiry found that Lithuania's Department of State Security, the VSD, "created the conditions" for a CIA detention facility to operate in Lithuania in 2004-2005.
"A small group of VSD officers took the decision to build this detention centre without informing society and, possibly, state leaders, and they circumvented parliamentary control," Andrius Kubilius said in a statement.
Kubilius said he was "alarmed" by the report's findings that laws had been broken, adding that the VSD had become a "state within a state."
The report recommended that three former senior VSD officers now face a criminal investigation by Lithuania's prosecutor general.
Kubilius said the USA remains a key strategic partner, but "a strategic partnership with the USA is not a justification for acting in ways that are essentially Soviet, ignoring civilian control of special services."
"An honest assessment of the lessons of the CIA prison in Lithuania, and a reform of the special service will only improve the quality of our cooperation with our strategic partner, the USA."
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