Statements by former Jeppesen employess, records of flight plans, European investigations and other sources indicate that Jeppesen/Boeing provided (and may still be providing) flight and logistical support for dozens, perhaps hundreds of "extraordinary rendition" flights which led to brutal torture with no semblance of due process in countries such as Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan (where some were boiled alive), Morocco, and Afghanistan. Victims were in some cases kidnapped (in one case off the streets of Milan), in others turned over for bounty payments by local enemies. U.S. taypayer money has been paid to Jeppesen/Boeing for travel services to CIA employees engaged in transferring these prisoners to certain torture in flagrant violation of U.S. and international law.
According to Meg Satterwaite, attorney for Ahmed Bashmilah, "This is a program that could not exist without corporate complicity. Jeppesen is a crucial example here. The CIA used purportedly civilian planes to avoid certain procedures that they normally would need to use if the used, for example, military planes or official government planes. So the corporate complicity is actually a crucial part of the CIA program."
Boeing's silence and efforts by the U.S. government to put the lid of secrecy on these atrocities will not stop our campaign to insist that Boeing recognize that TORTURE IS BAD BUSINESS.