'Torture Jet' Mystery in Oregon
"Torture Taxis" are jets used by the Central Intelligence Agency to transport detainees to its secret prisons in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world. A number of jets owned and operated in the U.S. and tucked away at rural airports and behind phony company names were identified in this May 2005 New York Times article as the same jets that act as "torture taxis" for extraordinary rendition flights to CIA secret prisons.
In Oregon, retired Rutgers professor Michael Munk has been putting pressure on a Portland attorney whose phantom client, Leonard Bayard, is listed as owner of one of the "torture taxis." Munk convinced the Oregon State Bar to start an investigation into whether attorney Scott Caplan has represented Bayard Foreign Marketing, under false pretenses.
Munk recently found two documents allegedly signed by Bayard, but take a look at the two signatures below. The wild discrepancy in the slant and contours of the signatures may be another clue that the company is a CIA front.
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