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In a shady residential side street of Bucharest there is an ordinary government building beside a train track. The building serves as storage space for NATO and EU classified information. Anonymous on the outside, but in the basement the CIA ran a secret prison. The AP and German public television in an exclusive story tells the known details of the dungeon codenamed
BRIGHT LIGHT. From 2003 to 2006 the facility was used for detention and interrogation of high value suspected terrorists before they being sent to the Cuban gulag of Guantanamo Bay. What horrors took place there in the name of national security are not fully known, but one weird detail emerged from anonymous interviews of US officials with knowledge. The six cells were mounted on springs so that they swayed. It is a method to keep a captive disoriented for long periods of time. Truly the dungeon is something out of the mind of Reinhard Heydrich, or someone who read too much Edgar Allen Poe as a child. Maybe Jack was right when his crazy Marine colonel character said, "You can't handle the truth."
