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"Former CIA officials directly involved or briefed on the highly classified program (said) that Lithuanian officials provided the CIA with a building on the outskirts of Vilnius, the country's capital, where as many as eight suspects were held for more than a year, until late 2005 when they were moved because of public disclosures about the program," wrote ABC News investigative reporter Matthew Cole.  

"Flight logs viewed by ABC News confirm that CIA planes made repeated flights into Lithuania during that period," Cole reported.

"Former CIA officials tell ABC News that the prison in Lithuania was one of eight facilities the CIA set-up after 9/11 to detain and interrogate top al Qaeda operatives captured around the world. Thailand, Romania, Poland, Morocco, and Afghanistan have previously been identified as countries that housed secret prisons for the CIA," Cole added.

CIA spokesman George Little called the ABC report "irresponsible."
 
"The CIA does not publicly discuss where facilities associated with its past detention program may or may not have been located," Little said by e-mail. "We simply do not comment on those types of claims, which have appeared in the press from time to time over the years. 

"The dangers of airing such allegations are plain," Little concluded. "These kinds of assertions could, at least potentially, expose millions of people to direct threat.  That is irresponsible."

The New York Times, followed by The Washington Post, revealed this week that the CIA had contracted with the controversial security firm formerly known as Blackwater in 2004 to develop and carry out an assassination program directed at al Qaeda operatives.

It is not yet clear who developed the idea or how far it got.  Current CIA Director Leon Panetta reported the program's existence to Congress when he discovered it, according to news reports.