by Sasha Uzunov De-classified Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) files, lodged with the National Archives of Australia, from the mid-1970s reveal that East Timorese independence leader Jose Manuel RAMOS HORTA debunked a number of assumptions that ASIO held about his political leanings. 1970s radical chic: Timorese independence leader Jose Manuel RAMOS HORTA of the FRETILIN […]
TERRORISM MANIA: Australia’s Federal Attorney-General Lionel Murphy (left) and The Canberra Times newspaper Editor At Large Jack Waterford (below). In 1973 Waterford received an unexpected & accidental tip-off from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) that A-G Murphy would be raiding the headquarters of the spy service–in search of information on “alleged Croatian terrorists.” Waterford’s revelation appears in a […]
ASIO SPIED UPON ARAB DIPLOMAT AND PALESTINIAN GROUPSby Sasha Uzunov De-classified intelligence documents lodged in the National Archives of Australia reveal that in the late 1970s during the terrorism mania sweeping the country, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) feared the activities of an Iraqi diplomat–close to Australian leftists–because of his connection to infamous hitman […]
SOVIET INTERFERENCE? OR BELGRADE’S FOOL’S GOLD? by Sasha UzunovDid the Soviet Union try to interfere in the Yugoslav government’s campaign against dissident Croats in Australia during the 1970s at the tail end of the Cold War? Story:The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) was deeply concerned about a schism that had developed within dissident Croatian ranks abroad, namely Australia […]
stock photo / wikipedia Trajkovski’s Kebap diplomacy by Sasha Uzunov Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup..a hidden bug in my kebap (cevapcici)…! Dr Georgi Trajkovski, the Yugoslav […]
1974 WHITLAM PAPER REVEALS:YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT “IGNORED” ITS OWN SECURITY PROPOSAL TO COMBAT “TERRORISM” by Sasha Uzunov In more twists and turns than a John Le Carre Cold War espionage novel and what would drive conspiracy theorists into an orgasmic delight including Aussie Hollywood star Mel Gibson, the Yugoslav Communist government in the early 1970s did […]
by Sasha Uzunov Responding to a request from TEAM UZUNOV, the National Archives of Australia (NAA) has released two photos of Dr George (Georgi) Trajkovski, the Yugoslav Consul General in Melbourne between 1975-79, believed to be the mastermind behind a successful campaign to infiltrate and discredit the local Croatian and Macedonian communities, as well as […]
An excellent blog on security and intelligence matters run by well respected US academic Dr John Schindler. Dr Schindler has done some remarkable work in examining the activities of the former Yugoslav Communist spy service (UDBa). His blog is the 20 Committee (XX Committee) . link: http://20committee.com/ About John R. Schindler is […]
ASIO KNEW YUGOSLAV SPY GAME PLAN IN 1977 By Sasha Uzunov A 1977 ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) assessment paper, heavily redacted, found in a newly de-classified file on Yugoslav diplomat, Dr George Trajkovski, reveals that Communist Yugoslavia threatened to step up its campaign to silence Croatian dissent on Australian soil and the consequence would […]
An ASIO report detailing the Yugoslav communist government interference into the affairs of the Macedonian Orthodox Church in Australia. YUGO SPY DREAM TEAM TAKES ON CROATS, MACEDONIANS – newly released ASIO files reveal a clever Yugoslav spy plan and a powder keg of information from the mid 1970s. These revelations could put pressure on the […]
