The June 9 Seattle Post-Intelligencer contained an Associated Press release from Paris written by Elaine Gailey that stated:

"The CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate key terror suspects, shackling and handcuffing inmates, keeping some naked for weeks and reducing contact with the outer world to masked and silent guards, a European investigator said Friday.

"The CIA called the report `distorted,' but stopped short of denying the existence of prisons in the two countries."

Swiss Senator Dick Marty was asked by a human rights watchdog to investigate the activities of the CIA, when news of secret prisons emerged in 2005.  Senator Marty accused Germany and Italy of obstructing investigations into secret prisons.