Premier Executive Transport Services was an airline listed as Foreign Corporation in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is alleged to be a
front company for the
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian intelligence agency, foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gat ...
(CIA). According to investigative journalists the company does not have any offices or premises, and searches of public records for identifying information about the company's officers have yielded only post office boxes in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. and also known as P LLC in Wyoming.
Premier Executive Transport Services has apparently owned two planes, both with permits to land at U.S. military bases: a
Gulfstream V with the tail number N44982 (formerly N379P and N8068V), and a
Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton Factory in Washington.
Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating with two ...
with the tail number N313P (now N720MM and owned by
MGM Mirage.) These planes are reported to have been involved in the CIA's
extraordinary rendition program,
in which suspected terrorists are transported to
black sites to be interrogated and, allegedly, tortured.
See also
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Black site
In military terminology, a black site is a location at which an unacknowledged black operation or black project is conducted. According to the Associated Press, "Black sites are clandestine jails where prisoners generally are not charged with ...
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Aero Contractors
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Rendition aircraft
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List of defunct airlines of the United States
References
External links
State of Massachusetts Records of Premier Executive Transport Services
Central Intelligence Agency front organizations
Defunct airlines of the United States
Companies based in Massachusetts
Extraordinary rendition program
Central Intelligence Agency operations
Conspiracy theories in the United States
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