[4] Some of the most important captives in the high value detainee program, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, were held there.
[1][5] The Bucharest site was housed within the campus of the Romanian National Registry Office for Classified Information, explaining the need for high security.
[4] Romanian President Ion Iliescu claimed in a Der Spiegel interview that he approved just the use of the location, without knowing the details about the secret prison.
[6] The U.S. government requested at the end of 2002/beginning of 2003 a building for the CIA and Iliescu approved it, appointing presidential adviser Ioan Talpeș in charge of the details.
[6] These statements contradict the result of a 2008 investigation by the Romanian Parliament, which concluded that no CIA prisons existed in Romania.