Premier Executive Transport Services

{{Short description|CIA shell company & airplane owner}}

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Premier Executive Transport Services was an airline listed as Foreign Corporation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is alleged to be a front company for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).Grey, S. (2006). Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program. St. Martin's Press. {{ISBN|0-312-36023-1}}.Paglen, T. and Thompson, A.C. (2006). Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights. Melville House Publishing. {{ISBN|1-933633-09-3}}. According to investigative journalists the company does not have any offices or premises, and searches of public records for identifying information about the company's officers have yielded only post office boxes in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., and also known as P LLC{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}} in Wyoming.{{cite web |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/11/29/terror_suspects_torture_claims_have_mass_link?pg=full |title=Terror suspects' torture claims have Mass. link |last1=Stockman |first1=Farah |date=29 November 2004 |website=Boston.com |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}{{Cite news|last1=Shane|first1=Scott|last2=Grey|first2=Stephen|last3=Williams|first3=Margot|last4=Shane|first4=Written By Mr|date=2005-05-31|title=C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/us/cia-expanding-terror-battle-under-guise-of-charter-flights.html|access-date=2020-06-01|issn=0362-4331}}

Premier Executive Transport Services has apparently owned two planes, both with permits to land at U.S. military bases:{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11976-2004Jul24.html |title=A Secret Deportation Of Terror Suspects |last1=Whitlock |first1=Craig |date=25 July 2004 |newspaper=The Washington Post |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}} a Gulfstream V with the tail number N44982 (formerly N379P and N8068V), and a Boeing 737 with the tail number N313P (now N720MM and owned by MGM Mirage.{{Cn|date=February 2025}}) These planes are reported to have been involved in the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, in which suspected terrorists are transported to black sites to be interrogated and, allegedly, tortured.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27826-2004Dec26.html |title=Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War |last1=Priest |first1=Dana |date=27 December 2004 |newspaper=The Washington Post |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}{{cite web |url=http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR510512006 |title=Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and 'disappearance' |author= |date=5 April 2006 |website=Amnesty International |publisher= |access-date= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060416092850/http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR510512006|archivedate=16 April 2006|quote=}}