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### Viewing cable 07REYKJAVIK203, Icelandic MFA announces inquiry into alleged

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    VZCZCXRO2349
    PP RUEHDBU RUEHFL RUEHKW RUEHLA RUEHROV RUEHSR
    DE RUEHRK #0203/01 1941644
    ZNY CCCCC ZZH
    P 131644Z JUL 07
    FM AMEMBASSY REYKJAVIK
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3368
    INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
    RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
    RUEKDIA/DIA WASHDC
    RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 REYKJAVIK 000203

    SIPDIS

    NOFORN

    SIPDIS

    DEPT FOR EUR/NB, EUR/PPD, L/HHR, L/PM

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/17/2017
    TAGS: PTER PREL PHUM NATO KPAO IC
    SUBJECT: Icelandic MFA announces inquiry into alleged
    CIA detainee flights

    Classified By: DCM Neil Klopfenstein for reasons 1.4
    (b) and (d).

    ¶1. (C) SUMMARY:  Iceland's Minister for Foreign
    Affairs announced on June 27 that her ministry will
    conduct an inquiry into allegations of CIA detainee
    flights transiting Iceland.  The announcement comes in
    response to the June 27 Council of Europe discussion
    of Special Rapporteur Dick Marty's latest report, and
    statements by Iceland's leading opposition
    parliamentarian, who attended the session in
    Strasbourg.  MFA officials have tried to minimize the
    inquiry's significance in conversations with Post,
    describing it as "an exercise in transparency" and an
    attempt to take the issue away from the opposition.
    They report that the inquiry's form and scope are
    still yet to be defined, though Iceland's ambassador
    in Strasbourg has approached the COE Human Rights and
    Legal Affairs Committee for assistance.  Post has not
    been officially approached by the MFA on the topic; we
    would expect any such inquiry closer to the opening of
    the new parliamentary session in October.  End
    Summary.

    ¶2. (U) On June 27, Icelandic state television's
    evening news covered the Council of Europe (COE)
    Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) session on COE Special
    Rapporteur Dick Marty's most recent report on alleged
    CIA activities in COE member states.  The report
    prominently featured comments by Left-Green Party
    Chair Steingrimur Sigfusson, who was in attendance.
    Sigfusson, the head of Iceland's largest opposition
    party, said that while he was not surprised by most of
    the report's findings, he was nonetheless concerned
    about the finding that NATO had purportedly authorized
    such measures in October 2001.  He called for the
    Icelandic Government to report on Iceland's role in
    any such NATO decision.

    ¶3. (U) In response, Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun
    Gisladottir (traveling in Africa) instructed the MFA
    to issue a press release that evening announcing that
    in light of the report's findings, she had decided
    that "landings by certain aircraft at Keflavik and/or
    Reykjavik Airports should be taken under closer
    examination."  The press release further stated that
    the Icelandic Government had fully answered all
    questions presented to it by the Marty inquiry, and
    that the MFA "has no knowledge of any flights operated
    by the U.S. intelligence services carrying prisoners
    or suspected terrorists in Icelandic airspace or at
    Keflavik Airport.  The U.S. Government has never
    requested overflight or landing permission for such
    aircraft."

    ¶4. (C) MFA Counselor Finnur Thor Birgisson, who
    drafted the press release for the Ministry's Political
    Department, told PolOff on June 29 that things "are
    still at a very early stage" regarding the MFA's plans
    for looking into the issue.  MFA Defense Department
    Counselor Fridrik Jonsson, also present at the
    meeting, was quick to add that the announcement was
    mostly for domestic consumption as a move to "clip the
    wings" of LG Chair Sigfusson before he had an
    opportunity to create further problems for the
    Minister.  Birgisson agreed, saying the inquiry is the
    Ministry's effort to be seen as transparent on the
    matter.  Questions may eventually be directed to the
    USG, but for now "the important part is to be seen as
    doing something."

    ¶5. (C) The MFA's Counselor for Human Rights reiterated
    this message in a meeting with PolOff on July 3,
    describing the ministry's effort as "an exercise in
    transparency."  She drew PolOff's attention to the
    specific language in the press release ("examination"
    vice "investigation"), underscoring that the MFA had
    no plans nor authority to conduct a formal
    investigation in a legal sense.  She further reported
    that she had just finished speaking to Iceland's
    ambassador in Strasbourg per FM Gisladottir's
    instructions to approach the PACE Legal Affairs and
    Human Rights Committee for assistance in formulating
    the inquiry.  The MFA's impression is that the
    committee's handling of the matter thus far has been

    REYKJAVIK 00000203  002 OF 002

    "puzzling," and the Ministry does not hold high
    expectations that it will get much useful information
    from these discussions.  (The FM's Political Advisor
    noted in the press on July 12 that the MFA did not
    expect a substantive response in Strasbourg until
    September, "after people's summer holidays.")

    ¶6. (C) Post has not been formally approached by the
    MFA on the matter thus far, and MFA officials have
    said they do not know if or when that might happen.
    The Icelandic Government last asked for a formal U.S.
    Government response on the topic in fall 2005, and
    Prime Minister Geir Haarde (then Foreign Minister) has
    on multiple occasions declared himself satisfied with
    Secretary Rice's statement regarding detainee issues

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    on December 5, 2005 (reftels).   Embassy Reykjavik
    last received a press inquiry on this issue in October
    2006, at which time we declined comment.  Press
    reporting so far has been straightforward, though an
    editorial cartoon in leading daily Morgunbladid on
    July 4 lampooned the Foreign Minister's intent to
    conduct the inquiry, depicting her at the airport with
    a pair of binoculars looking for planes with "prisoner
    stripes."

    ¶7. (C/NF) Comment:  FM Gisladottir is in a difficult
    situation stemming from her party's past criticism of
    the GOI on the issue of detainee flights.  During the
    campaign for the May 2007 parliamentary elections, she
    committed herself and her party to transparency and
    cooperation with the Althingi (parliament) on foreign
    affairs and as such will need to demonstrate an effort
    to investigate the issue.  Her quick decision to
    announce a further investigation of alleged detainee
    flights is a direct result of this pressure from her
    erstwhile allies in opposition, the Left-Greens.  Her
    announcement will effectively quash the issue until
    the Althingi comes back into session in October.  At
    that point, however, opposition parliamentarians will
    likely use the issue to snipe at the government and
    push for some results from the inquiry.  We anticipate
    that press inquiries to the Embassy, if any, will ask
    us to comment on the allegations in the COE reports as
    they pertain to Iceland and to outline our response to
    any Icelandic Government query on the matter.  In such
    an event Post intends to coordinate our response with
    appropriate Washington offices.

    Klopfenstein

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