Tender for Croatian secret agents
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008It has been speculated for some time that, in case of the SDP winning the elections, a new SOA chief should become piro Mie, the confidant of Ranko Ostojić a candidate for the minister of the interior. Recently, I have been warned by more sources that Ante Glavan, the head of a SOA sector, has more prospects of becoming the SDP chief of SOA than piro Mie.
- Glavan, using the data on Mesić acquired during the Puljiz case, has built a strong relationship with Pantovčak. It is also known that the SOA chief cannot be appointed without the President’s counter-signature. What is more interesting is the fact that Glavan, through the mediation of Ante Damjanović, has contacted Ante Kotromanović. He seems to have more influence on the SDP president, Zoran Milanović, than Ranko Ostojić, warns one of the sources close to the parliamentary Committee for National Security.
Ante Damjanović, who has allegedly put Kotromanović in touch with Glavan, is Tihomir Blakić’s godfather. On the other hand, Blakić is on close terms with Ivan Račan, the late SDP president’s son. In the 90s Ante Damjanović was a SIS analyst and at some time past, he was arrested by SIS under the suspicion of removing military documents without authorization. He intended to hand them over to Blakić’s lawyer Nobilo without authorization. In 2000, when the coalition won the elections, Damjanović, as a HSLS member, became a security adviser to Jozo Rado, the minister of defence.
Besides that, in 2000, the afore mentioned military policemen, together with the retired SIS officer from ibenik, Stipe Jukić, were received by Mladen Ruman, assistant minister of defence for security, Davor Bićan, head of SIS, and Ante Damjanović, defence minister security adviser. The latter was made well-known by Jasna Babić in her book Blakić conspiracy where he was described as Tihomir Blakić’s best man.
It is interesting that at that time Milković and Bariić were SDP members but were summoned to the meeting in MORH via HSLS connections, since then minister, Jozo Rado, was HSLS vice-president. The meeting was organized by Ante Damjanović who was a subordinate to the head of SIS, Stipe Rojnica, at the time when the assistant minister of defence for security was Draen Budia’s best man, Dr Goran Dodig.
Longtime champions of truth, Milković, Jukić and Bariić, were sent off from MORH with the promise that their findings would be seen to seriously. As the time was passing by and no one was approaching or acting, I was asked to talk to Ante Damjanović and check where it all got stalled.
I met Ante Damjanović for a cup of coffee in the Palace hotel bar. There, I found out that Rado’s security adviser would rather I had showed interest in the Tihomir Blakić, his best man, case and pilgrimages for Blakić from the Hague to Nova Bila that he had organized, than being interested in the case of military policemen and SIS officers against whom charges for war criminals and crime were pressed. He was puzzled about why Mario Bariić needed all of that and what his motives were and which school Bariić graduated from.
Ante Damjanović and Ante Glavan got together during the investigation of a crime in Paulin Dvor:
However, the entire operation of transporting bodies in white plastic barrels (10060 cm), with the logo of the Osijek company “Analit” was overseen by SIS. The bodies were found in three graves in Rizvanua, in February 2002. The operation was secured by the Military Police, notably its Crime division. Thus, the investigation of the crime, whose trails were attempted to be covered up 500 km away, was pointing to colonel Ante Gugić, then the head of SIS, general Mate Lauić, a long-time Military Police commander, and major Ante Glavan. The latter was the head of the Military Police Crime division for a number of years and during the operation in question as well. More and more data indicate that Ante Gugić, Ante Glavan and head of Operative division of SIS, major eljko Sklepić, may have a lot to say about crimes committed in Paulin Dvor, war crimes committed by HV members, particularly Military Police members in the regions of Sisak and Gospić and in the Split Naval Base Lora. There are also indications that the leading members of SIS and the Military Police crime division, Gugić, Glavan and Sklepić in person, as key figures from the HDZ intelligence infrastructure, were directly involved in covering up those war crimes. Though a Military Security agency was founded, the Military Police crime division, by orders of Mladen Ruman, became the intelligence-security-police organ of the Ministry of Defence.
Current SOA director, Tomislav Karamarko, has continued with the reconstruction of the mega spy agency. He reckons that, when HDZ wins the elections again, he will, as the minister of interior, be able to do whatever he wants with SOA via his people. Karamarko has been preparing his assistant Josip Buljević to take over. Buljević won recognition when tracking down Ante Gotovina and Hrvoje Petrač. Buljević is often approved business trips to the USA, where, allegedly, pays private visits to Jelena Vre, a SOA accredited representative in Washington. He enjoys specific privileges such as installing hand controls in the business Audi although he is not an invalid without legs. The price of that privilege expressed in euros is equivalent to the price of another car.
On Buljević’s request Karamarko appointed Tomislav Milčić as his chief of staff. He is a former POA agent who was supposed to testify in the German process against Krunoslav Prates.
A recent Zagreb SOA Centre chief and Mirko Norac’s friend Milijan Brkić was promoted to the position of SOA home security chief by Karamarko.
Recently, SOA has received general Mladen Markač defense team’s request concerning the appearance of two agency’s employees (Ante Letica and Svibor Kikerec) at the Hague trial as expert witnesses so as to confirm the authenticity of some HIS documents on “Oluja”. Sources close to ICTY assume that the request was dictated by Miroslav eparović, a lawyer who was forbidden by the Hague to represent Markač due to the conflict of interests. eparović was also the head of HIS and knows who did what in that agency.
Karamarko refused the request for Ante Letica’s expert testimony in the Hague because admiral Sveto Letica’s son is currently a coordinator of all SOA centres’ activities. Another reason is the fact that he is the spy loyal to Josip Perković, alpha and omega of all Croatian spies. Ante Letica began his spy career in the 80s in the Split UDBA where his superiors were Ladislav Pivčević, current chief of the Council for National Security office and Stipe Perković, Josip Perković’s retired brother
He was serving in Zagreb when there was the change of power. Zagreb SZUP operatives arrested him in Zrinjevac in 1991 when he removed certain UDBA documents from the SZUP headquarters without authorization. It was his intention to hand them over to Branko Traivuk, one of KOS “Labradors”. Darko Starčević and Darko Domiljanović, who were managing the operation of catching “Labradors” on behalf of SZUP, were disappointed when Ante Letica, owing to Josip Perković, uak’s main SIS operative, was freed and immediately employed in MUP.
Just after that, according to Dobroslav Paraga, Ante Letica, on behalf of MUP, had sent the communication saying that the HSP vice-president died. It was an hour before the assassination of Ante Paradik. It perfectly fits into a testimony claiming that Josip Perković, Zoran Udiljak and Kreo Bralić, fully equipped, had left SIS half an hour prior to Paradik’s murder and drove off to the future crime site. Individuals, who are willing to give their testimonies about that to the state prosecution as soon as Mladen Bajić and Dragan Novosel are removed from the office, say there is no doubt that Perković and Letica acted in co-ordination in the Paradik case. However, Letica, due to his proved cowardice and fear, released the communication “that the Paradik case is put ad acta” too early.
In order for Letica, who is not known to be a particularly bright spy, not to discredit himself in the Hague, Karamarko decided that Svibor Kikerec should give the testimony to the Hague prosecutors. He was a former assistant in HIS, accredited OA representative in Moscow while today, he is Boo Kovačević deputy minister, in the rank of a minister counsellor.
Karamarko does not care that in he jeopardizes the functioning of the Croatian diplomacy, especially in such a sensitive place as Russia. What matters is Letica not compromising his firm and the spy Daddy Josip Perković. Moreover, Karamarko does not know anything about international rules of the spy profession. That is how he removed an employee from an office of the head of the SOA sector for co-operation with foreign services. The employee expressed negatively about the fact that SOA passed certain confidential information it got from the French service to the Russian service, despite the international spy rule Third party which forbids sending obtained information to the third parties. Due to insisting on respecting international norms, the chief of co-on was transferred to a less important and significantly less paid position in the Zagreb SOA Centre.
Karamarko also organized a special department for the protection of the director, consisting of 15 men. For their chief, he appointed certain 45-year-old-built-up-with-grey-hair Samir Ćuskić. It would be no wonder if he turns out to belong to the Zijad Mahmuljin Udovičić numbed team. The latter has been employed in SOA by Karamarko to work on our elite spies’ special skills.
Let me paraphrase comrade Tito: We needn’t worry for the future of Croatia with such spies!
P.S. This post published at 13 September, 2007, Thursday on peratovic.blog.hr – Sveta tri Ante uz SDP-ove jaslice
That article was cited by the secret service as the evidence against me. I have been incriminated by an accusation that I was jeopardizing the safety of SOA employees by making their names and positions known and that I was jeopardizing the national security and the Croatian accession to the NATO and EU”. Consequently, I was arrested by the police on October 17, 2007. That is nothing but a doubt used to divert attention from the fact that I only mentioned the SOA employees identity in the context of articles on nepotism and corruption in the process of reorganization of the security-intelligence system and the personnel policy of Tomislav Karamarko, the SOA director.
