From Physicians for Human Rights: "A report (PDF) prepared by professors and students at the University of North Carolina School of Law states that the CIA has been relying on Aero Contractors, Ltd., a North Carolina-operated civil aviation company to transport detainees to international destinations for detention, interrogation and torture."
(Via BoingBoing)
From Wikipedia:
The company was founded in 1979 by the late Jim Rhyne, a former pilot with Air America. The company has 26 planes and 79 employees and operates from the tiny Johnston County Airport.
...Aero Corporations allegedly operate under several different shell companies, including Stevens Express Leasing, Inc., Premier Executive Transport Services, Aviation Specialties, Inc., and Devon Holding and Leasing, Inc.
2007 Protest at Smithfield, NC, 35 miles from Raleigh:
@4:35 "Money's behind it. These guys are making a quarter of a million dollars at least, if not a half a million dollars for being the pilots of these torture taxis. They're flying all over the world getting a big, big salary and then lots of per diem to stay in the biggest, best of the resorts all over the world."
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