Famous, some say infamous, Afghan and Uzbek military Commander General Abdul Rashid Dostum (left) pictured with Canadian journalist Scott Taylor. Photo by Sasha Uzunov 2007. Dostum has never been on a “losing side” in 30 years of war in Afghanistan. Recent developments have seen Afghan Army soldiers turning on their NATO and Australian military allies. […]
Aldo Moro, Italian Prime Minister (1963-68, 74-76), kidnapped by Italian leftist group Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades) in 1978, and later murdered. Could he have been saved by Marshal Tito, the ruler of Communist Yugoslavia? by Sasha UzunovItaly’s equivalent to the John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy is the kidnapping and subsequent murder of ex-Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978 […]
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 […]
