Assembly Point Aviation Inc.

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Assembly Point Aviation Inc. is "a company with an address in Albany, N.Y., but no telephone number. Dun & Bradstreet describes Assembly Point as a 'religious organization' that is somehow involved with 'churches, temples and shrines'," John Crewdson and Tom Hundley wrote March 20, 2005, for Knight-Ridder Tribune Newspapers.

"Assembly Point's sole officer and director is Phillip H. Morse of Jupiter, Fla., who reportedly made millions from the sale of the catheter-manufacturing company he founded in Glens Falls, N.Y.

"Morse is a part-owner of the [Boston] Red Sox, and ... Morse 'likes to advertise the team' - hence the Red Sox logo that the jet" N85VM-N227SV "sometimes sports," Crewdson and Hundley wrote.

Extraordinary Rendition

"Federal Aviation Administration records obtained by the Chicago Tribune show that Gulfstream N85VM has been many places around the world that the Red Sox have almost certainly never gone," Crewdson and Hundley wrote.

"Between June 2002 and January of this year, the Gulfstream made 51 visits to Guantanamo, Cuba, site of the U.S. naval base where more than 500 terrorism suspects are behind bars.

"During the same period, the plane recorded 82 visits to Washington's Dulles International Airport as well as landings at Andrews Air Force Base outside the capital and the U.S. air bases at Ramstein and Rhein-Main in Germany.

"The plane's flight log also shows visits to Afghanistan, Morocco, Dubai in United Arab Emirates , Jordan, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic.

"Egypt, Afghanistan, Jordan and Morocco are among the countries to which the United States is known to have 'rendered' terrorism suspects. Under the increasingly controversial practice of 'rendition,' terrorism suspects arrested abroad have been forcibly returned to their native countries for interrogation, sometimes with methods that are precluded by U.S. law," Crewdson and Hundley wrote.

Confirmed Flights

The following are confirmed flights made on behalf of Assembly Point Aviation: [1]

• 23.04.04 N85VM from Schenectady, NY to Guantanamo to Washington, DC (26.4.) to Shannon, Ireland to Baku
• 28.04.04 N85VM from Baku to Shannon, Ireland
• 12.08.04 N85VM from Washington, DC to Ireland, Shannon (dep. 13.8.) to Kabul, Afghanistan to Baku
• 15.08.04 N85VM from Baku to Shannon, Ireland

Contact Information

Glens Falls, NY 12801

Related SourceWatch Resources

• planes alleged to have been used for extraordinary rendition

External links

• John Crewdson and Tom Hundley, "Jet's Travels Cloaked in Mystery," Knight-Ridder Tribune Newspapers (Common Dreams), March 20, 2005.
• Gordon Edes, "CIA uses jet, Red Sox partner confirms. 'Stunned' by report of controversial prisoner transfer," Boston Globe, March 21, 2005.
• "CIA rendition flights to Azerbaijan and Redirected Pentagon Kalashnikovs to Latin American right wing forces," Milfuegos Blogspot, May 14, 2006.