black site

noun

a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government

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He shut the remaining CIA black site prisons in Europe, and handed over high-value Iraqi detainees to the Iraqi courts.

Terror Prisons in The Post-Gitmo World Noah Kristula-Green June 26, 2012
That black site program is once again at the center of controversy for the CIA.

Did the CIA Chief Just Dare Obama to Fire Him? Eli Lake March 10, 2014

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