TITO AND THE TURKS: Communist Yugoslavia plays the Cyprus card. By Sasha Uzunov De-classified Australian diplomatic cables paints Turkey in a positive light in the lead up to the 1974 Cyprus conflict, and Communist Yugoslavia in a Machiavellian role. A large file on Yugoslav-Turkish foreign relations dating from the 1950s to the 1970s has been […]
FORZA ITALIA–TITO FEARED ITALIAN INVASION OF YUGOSLAVIA IN 1967 PLAY ACTING OR PARANOIA? DID ITALIAN PM MORO DIE BECAUSE OF TITO’? by Sasha Uzunov A 1967 Australian diplomatic cable has revealed Yugoslav Communist strongman Marshal Josip Broz Tito feared an Italian invasion of his country, adding to speculation that he may have had an indirect […]
TEAM UZUNOV kick-starts the Republic versus Constitutional Monarchy for Australia debate. REPUBLICAN EDDIE – Monarchists’ best weapon. by Sasha Uzunov Australia’s constitutional monarchists should not be too alarmed at last year’s rumblings emanating from republican advocate and Federal Opposition front bencher Malcolm Bligh Turnbull–not when another staunch republican, media celebrity and sports commentator Eddie McGuire […]
EX-SBS RADIO BOSS UNAWARE OF ASIO PHONE TAPby Sasha Uzunov Mr Peter Horton (pictured above), the former Melbourne radio station manager of Australia’s multicultural public broadcaster SBS, has told TEAM UZUNOV of his surprise that Australia’s domestic counter-intelligence service was tapping SBS telephones. “If I had known, I would have let the management in Sydney […]
NEWSFLASH ASIO MONITORED SBS JOURNALIST – BORIS TRAJKOV By Sasha Uzunov Australia’s domestic counter-intelligence service monitored a Melbourne SBS Radio journalist before and during his tenure at the multicultural public broadcaster because of his association to Yugoslav diplomats during the 1970s and 80s, newly de-classified files reveal. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) opened a […]
TEAM UZUNOV exclusive NSW LABOR MP FEARED CORRUPT COPS BEFORE ASSASSINATIONby Sasha UzunovJohn Newman, a Labor Party New South Wales State Member of Parliament who was assassinated by a political rival in 1994, feared corrupt NSW Police before his death, a former Yugoslav diplomat now living in Australia has revealed in his unpublished memoirs.Miodrag Ilickovic, a […]
The intelligence war against the Montenegrins Photo: Soon to be assassinated Yugoslav diplomat and former intelligence office Vladimir Rolovic (left), with Yugoslav Labour Minister Anton Polajner (centre) and Australian Federal Minister for Labour and National Service (Sir) Billy Snedden share a friendly drink, Canberra, Australia 1970 during an official visit. source: National Archives of Australia […]
The late Osama Bin Laden, the founder of terror franchise Al Qaeda, which spread its influence into the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. ONLINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal link: Heed Bolt’s warnings on terror By Sasha Uzunov – posted Wednesday, 10 October 2012 Some of us who grew up as “ethnics” in writer Catherine Deveny’s allegedly infamous […]
Book launch: “Red Zone Baghdad: My War in Iraq.”Author Colonel Marcus Fielding (Australian Army)The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, AustraliaMonday 8 October 2012 Australian Army Colonel Marcus Fielding is a hidden gem– an engaging public speaker who remarkably has never been utilised by the Defence Department’s public relations or for that matter never invited to comment […]
UDBa DOWN UNDER – Yugoslav spying in Australia – a documentary filmCOMING IN 2013A documentary film by Sasha Uzunov. The shocking true story of how during the Cold War, Communist Yugoslavia managed to outsmart Australia’s spycatchers Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and through a dirty tricks campaign discredit emigre Croats, Macedonians and others opposed to the regime. […]
