What Exactly Did Jeppesen Do?

Question by Doggzilla: What exactly did Jeppesen do?
The ACLU is claiming that Jeppesen helped the CIA by providing services. What exactly did they do?

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Answer by skytrain18
According to an article that appeared in October, 2006, in The New Yorker, Jeppesen has close business ties to the CIA. The article claims that the company has provided navigational and logistics support to the agency’s extraordinary rendition program. The article says Jeppesen provided “flight plans, clearance to fly over other countries, hotel reservations, and ground-crew arrangements” to the CIA. According to the article, an unnamed former employee quoted Bob Overby, Jeppesen’s managing director, as saying at a meeting, “We do all of the extraordinary renditions flights—you know, the torture flights. Let’s face it, some of those flights end up that way…It certainly pays well.”

On November 16, 2006 Amnesty International staged a demonstration in front of the company’s International Trip and Flight Planning Office in San Jose, California to protest their involvement in the rendition program. In December, 2006 representatives of the South Bay Mobilization for Peace and Justice group asked the San Jose City Council to remove a Jeppesen banner from a city skating rink. The group also holds a weekly vigil at the company’s offices.

On May 30, 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union sued Jeppesen for providing extraordinary rendition/torture flight services to the CIA. The suit alleges that, since 2001, Jeppesen “has provided direct and substantial services to the United States for its so-called ‘extraordinary rendition’ program, enabling the clandestine and forcible transportation of suspects to secret overseas detention facilities where they are placed beyond the reach of the law and subjected to torture and other forms of cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.”

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