ASIO DELAYS OVER SPY FILE The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the nation’s counter-intelligence agency, has inexplicably delayed responding to a request for a file on a former communist Yugoslav diplomat who might be linked to the Croatian Six case. Sasha Uzunov, an Australian independent film maker and journalist, has tried to obtain under Australia’s […]
ON LINE opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13223 CAN WE TRUST ASIO?by Sasha UzunovThursday 9 February 2012 Mr David Irvine, the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Australia’s domestic spooks, has called for more spies from within the country’s Islamic communities, but can ASIO be trusted to do an efficient […]
Unsung heroes: Macedonian Partizans who fought Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Bulgaria (1941-45) enter the southern Macedonian town of Bitola, after liberating it from the Germans during fierce battles in November 1944. Estreja Ovadija – Mara : Macedonian-Jewish Partizan Hero killed during World War II. (photo: Yad Vashem) On Remembrance Day – 11 November– Lest […]
Map of The Republic of Macedonia during the 2001 Albanian Insurgency.source: wikipedia Part 1: Bulgarian Intelligence operations in Western Europe during the 1990s…. DID BULGARIA PROVOKE WAR IN MACEDONIA? by Sasha Uzunov The Republic of Macedonia celebrated its 20th anniversary of independence on 8 September 2011. This year also marked a decade of the short-lived […]
SECOND part in a series on Yugoslav intelligence acitivities on Australian soil from the 1970s to the early 1990s. PATRIOT GAMES: ONE MAN’S FIGHT AGAINST UDBaBy Sasha Uzunov During the 1970s, 80s and early 90s, an intelligence war was waged by the communist regime of Yugoslavia to intimidate and silence Australia’s Macedonian migrant community but […]
Photos: Top-Scottish flag of Saint Andrew. Bottom-Scottish soldier stands guard at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland’s capital city (photo by Philip Allfrey 2006). After centuries of British rule, is it finally ‘freedom for Scotland?’ And what of Ulster and Wales? ONLINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debatewww.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9848&page=0 Scotland the brave, Ulster the unsure?By Sasha […]
One of the Dutch soldiers who saved me from a beating in Skopje, Macedonia Balkan flashback–Australian journalist reveals: THE DAY DUTCH SOLDIERS SAVED ME By Sasha Uzunov Last week the Australian government warned that Australian journalists should leave Afghanistan because they were being targeted by the Taliban. But since when have journalists ever been safe […]
