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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Human Rights Fact-F CIA R D I P A Response to Cordell Professor Ruth Blakeley (University of Sheffield) and Dr Sam Raphael (University of Westminster) Introduction In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, the CIA developed a highly secretive programme for the kidnap, T CIA Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) programme saw the CIA build and run a global network of secret prisons wherein at least 119 prisoners were held for months and year on end, incommunicado, and with no access to legal representation.