Ghost detainee is an official term used by the U.S. Government to designate a person held in a detention center, whose identity has been hidden by keeping them unregistered and therefore anonymous. It was also used in the same manner by the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center (JIDC) at the Abu Ghraib prison. According to Swiss senator Dick Marty's memorandum on "alleged detention in Council of Europe states", about one hundred persons have been captured by the CIA on European territory and subsequently rendered to countries where they may have been tortured. This number of one hundred extraordinarily rendered persons is in addition to the hundred U.S. ghost detainees.
Read more about Ghost Detainee: Secret CIA Prisons (aka Black Sites), Abu Ghraib's "ghost Detainees", Criticism
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“Man was Cadaver’s masker, the harnessing mantle,
Windily master of man was the rotten fathom,
My ghost in his metal neptune
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