KOMRADE KIRO – a 1973 US diplomatic cable, released by wikileaks, reveals Kiro Gligorov, then a leading Yugoslav Communist and later to become the first President of the Republic of Macedonia in 1991, urged strong security measures to be taken by the Yugoslav government against, ironically, striking workers and equated their actions with anti-state activities. […]
Two interesting documents have emerged in the recent batch of United States diplomatic cables to be released by international whistleblower organisation, Wikileaks: The first is a 1973 US State Department cable detailing the Yugoslav government’s fears of “extremist” Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian activities on American soil. We hear of the Macedonian Patriotic Organisation (MPO). Link: […]
Team Uzunov puts the pieces to the puzzle over the 1979 Croatian Six set up –Australia’s real life Humphrey Bogart film noir detective? 1977 JAT Travel Agency bombing in Melbourne may have been a dress rehearsal?Muslim Bosnian activists being spied upon WAS BEGOVIC THE MISSING LINK? by Sasha Uzunov “Play it again Samir” Enver Begovic […]
ASIO surveillance photo of Georgi Trajkovski from 1979. Pictured here leaving his consular vehicle, a Mercedes Benz. source: National Archives of Australia by Sasha UzunovASIO – The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has released three more dossiers, bringing the total to five so far, for Yugoslav Consul General in Melbourne Georgi Trajkovski, believed to be […]
Yugoslav spying in AustraliaENTER THE DRAGANS & THE RED PRIEST !by Sasha Uzunov It could easily be a plot for a Bruce Lee martial arts film or a Quentin Tarantino blockbuster but fact is stranger than fiction. Here in Australia during the early 1970s, clergy, petty thieves, ex-communicated communists, embezzlers, gamblers, bar room brawlers, and […]
Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) becomes shy! SBS: NO COMMENT ON ASIO PHONE TAP by Sasha Uzunov Australia’s public multicultural broadcaster, The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), has declined to comment on revelations that an SBS radio journalist was being monitored by Australia’s Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and that an SBS telephone may have been tapped. TEAM […]
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 […]
