Washington, February 2 (RHC)-- A new report suggests the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, tortured terror suspects on a British territory in the Indian Ocean. The CIA carried out some of its “interrogations” on the atoll of Diego Garcia, a senior Bush administration official has told Vice News.

Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff of ex-Secretary of State Collin Powell, said the British territory was used as a “transit location” for the CIA’s “interrogations” and other “nefarious activities” when other bases were unavailable.

He said: “What I heard was more along the lines of using it as a transit location when perhaps other places were full or other places were deemed too dangerous or insecure, or unavailable at the moment.”

“So you might have a case where you simply go in and use a facility at Diego Garcia for a month or two weeks or whatever and you do your nefarious activities there.”

His account contradicts the official line of the British government that it was not complicit in torture in the years after 9/11. Last year, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK was investigating allegations that MI6 spies were involved in the torture of foreign detainees. Amnesty International and others have criticized the investigation, arguing that the government retained a right to withhold information it deemed detrimental to national security.