Sulla eliminazione fisica dell'avversario

[Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia <crj at sigmasrl.it>]

CRONISTORIA DEI PROGETTI DI ATTENTATO A MILOSEVIC

(Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia, febbraio 2000)

La recente uccisione del Ministro della Difesa della RFJ Pavle Bulatovic 
e' stata attribuita negli ambienti governativi jugoslavi ad un piano 
terroristico di destabilizzazione della RFJ, preparato all'estero.
A titolo informativo abbiamo pensato di riportare una serie di elementi 
ed informazioni circolate in passato rispetto a progetti simili, tutti 
di matrice straniera e soprattutto mirati alla eliminazione fisica di
Slobodan Milosevic. 
Si tratta di piani falliti o mai resi operativi, ma che sono stati via 
via presi in reale considerazione da chi intende ridisegnare ulteriormente 
i Balcani a proprio uso e consumo. Se comunque si puo' essere scettici 
sulla effettiva volonta' di realizzare piani simili da parte delle consorterie
occidentali, e' per gli effetti politici che sortirebbero: togliendo dalla 
scena Milosevic, l'Occidente sarebbe posto di fronte al problema di CHI 
mettere al suo posto, e non sarebbe un problema da poco visto che il fine 
ultimo resta la scomparsa della Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia dalle 
cartine geografiche... Senza Milosevic, costantemente ed universalmente 
indicato come un demonio in forma umana, sarebbe certo piu' difficile 
criminalizzare un intero paese ed i suoi abitanti, isolarlo per 
destabilizzarlo e frantumarlo.

--- IL "RAGNO" FRANCESE

Particolarmente noto e' il caso, scoppiato lo scorso autunno, della rete
denominata "Il Ragno", costruita dai servizi segreti francesi
coinvolgendo uomini dei servizi di sicurezza jugoslavi (alcuni dei quali 
arrestati proprio in occasione della scoperta di questo loro 
coinvolgimento) e paramilitari serbo-bosniaci. 

A proposito di queste "relazioni pericolose" tra serbi della Bosnia e 
francesi, bisogna ricordare che mentre i rapporti tra la leadership 
serbo-jugoslava (attorno a Milosevic) e la leadership serbo-bosniaca 
(attorno a Karadzic) si incrinavano nel 1993-1994, dalle fila serbo-bosniache 
emergevano pian piano elementi considerati "affidabili" in Occidente. 
Cosi', subito dopo la stipula degli accordi di Dayton, presidentessa 
della Repubblica Serba di Bosnia (RS) al posto di Karadzic diventava Biljana 
Plavsic, ex braccio destro del suo predecessore, sempre fortemente 
criticata da Mira Markovic (moglie di Milosevic) ed appoggiata in
Occidente; un altro personaggio ancora in sella, oggi duramente
contestato a Belgrado, e' il cosiddetto "moderato" Dodik. 

Nel 1997 in Francia scoppiava poi un incredibile scandalo per 
l'aiuto prestato da settori militari francesi a Karadzic, affinche' non 
fosse catturato e consegnato al Tribunale dell'Aia. Una vicenda per la 
quale il comandante Pierre Bunel nel 1998 fu prima arrestato, poi 
liberato. Su questa strana storia suggeriamo di fare una ricerca con il
nome del comandante sul sito di "Le Monde": http://archives.lemonde.fr/

La piu' recente operazione "Ragno" e' stata a tutti gli effetti 
confermata nel momento in cui il responsabile dei servizi francesi e' 
stato congedato dopo la scoperta, e dunque il fallimento, del progetto
di assassinare il Presidente della RFJ, come veniva spiegato ad esempio
nel seguente articolo de "Il manifesto" del 24 Dicembre 1999:

> ATTENTATO A MILOSEVIC
> 
> A Parigi salta il capo dei Servizi
>
> - R. ES -
>
> Salta la testa del direttore dell'agenzia di spionaggio francese, la Dgse,
> dopo la figuraccia rimediata a Belgrado dove la polizia aveva arrestato il
> mese scorso cinque spie accusate di essere al soldo della Francia e di aver
> pianificato un attentato a Milosevic. Dopo neanche sei mesi di direzione,
> Jacques Dewatre deve quindi andarsene e lasciare la poltrona del Dgse a un
> diplomatico di lungo corso, Jean-Claude Cousseran, ambasciatore in Turchia,
> ex rappresentante della Francia in Iran all'epoca della rivoluzione
> islamica e a Gerusalemme al tempo dell'Intifada.
>
> A Jacques Dewatre, scrive Le Monde, non e' stato perdonato il fallimento in
> Serbia: Li' "l'azione del Dgse era molto discreta, quasi inesistente, a
> parte quei commando spediti furtivamente in Kosovo...". Dopo l'arresto
> delle cinque spie a Belgrado, una delle quali naturalizzata francese, sulla
> stampa transalpina si e' riversata una grande quantita' di rivelazioni
> sull'attivita' del Dgse in Jugoslavia. Il settimanale satirico-investigativo
> Le Canard Enchaîné ha scritto di recente che tre agenti del Dgse che
> operavano in Kosovo sono stati decorati il mese scorso con la Legione
> d'onore. Il settimanale ha poi rivelato che la Francia aveva montato due
> operazioni segrete in Kosovo, una prima, l'altra dopo l'inizio della guerra
> aerea Nato in Jugoslavia. Il portavoce del Dgse si e' difeso dicendo che
> compito di un servizio di spionaggio e' quello di raccogliere informazioni
> riservate in zone sensibili. I commando, quindi, avrebbero fatto il loro
> lavoro, nulla di piu'. Quando a Dewatre la sua destituzione non avrebbe
> nulla a che vedere coi Balcani; questa la versione ufficiale. (...)

--- LA VERSIONE DEL GOVERNO JUGOSLAVO

L'intera operazione "Ragno" veniva invece descritta nella seguente maniera 
in Jugoslavia:

> Belgrade, December 10th (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Secretary Goran 
> Matic late Friday said that the recent arrest in Yugoslavia of the 
> Spider intelligence-terrorist group, whose members had committed crimes 
> on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, especially in Srebrenica, had 
> drawn great attention in the world. 
>
> In an interview on Politika RTV, Matic said that the Spider group were a 
> gang of professional hit men who served the French Intelligence Service 
> ad other similar groupings and contributed with their actions to having 
> the war on the territory of the former Yugoslavia treated as a form of 
> Serbian aggression and expansionism.
>

Innanzitutto, il Ministro dell'Informazione jugoslavo Matic si scaglia
contro gli arrestati non solo per i loro progetti terroristici a venire, 
ma anche per le azioni criminali commesse durante il conflitto in Bosnia 
(Matic cita Srebrenica), che hanno pesantemente danneggiato la causa serba
trasformando la guerra civile, agli occhi del mondo, in una aggressione
dei nazionalisti serbi. Tali azioni hanno danneggiato ovviamente anche la
RF di Jugoslavia, sottoposta ad embargo ed isolata a livello internazionale.

>
> Matic set out that the Spider group activities had also helped demonize 
> both the Serbian people and Yugoslavia, as a state, and had helped 
> impose sanctions against Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav Information Secretary 
> said that during the arrest of the Spider group, a series of documents 
> were found, which he stressed shed new light on the developments in the 
> former Yugoslavia, especially on what underlies the sanctions against 
> and pressure on Yugoslavia.
>
> Matic said that arrested member of the group, Jugoslav Petrusic (also 
> known as Dominique), hired people from former Yugoslavia for the 
> services of the French Intelligence Service and the operations in 
> Zaire. "Spider" was a multiethnic formation, which committed various 
> crimes on the territory of former Yugoslavia, received money for it,
> mostly provided by the French.
>
> They were a classic legionnaire formation, with contracts specifically 
> stating the cost of the elimination, assassination, blowing up vehicles, 
> facilities.
>

Le attivita' del gruppo "Ragno", guidato da un tale Petrusic (nome in codice
"Dominique"), in effetti avevano travalicato lo spazio dei Balcani per
estendersi addirittura nello Zaire, sempre al servizio dei francesi,
secondo il classico copione dei mercenari della Legione Straniera. Secondo
Matic, nei Balcani il "Ragno" era in realta' una rete "multietnica" di
spie e terroristi, attraverso la quale i francesi avrebbero cercato
contatti con gli ambienti ultranazionalisti di ogni "etnia", compresi
gli albanesi-kosovari alla vigilia della aggressione del 1999.

>
> Petrusic began his career cooperating with the Muslims. He became a 
> member of the French Intelligence Service working initially with the 
> Albanian criminals, because the French were searching for a connection 
> that would help them enter Kosovo-Metohija and arm a part of Albanian 
> population, said the Minister.
>
> "This means that, already than, France tried to create channels for 
> escalating Albanian separatism and terrorism in Kosovo-Metohija and a 
> connection with the terrorists", said Matic.
>
> He reminded that Petrusic committed a series of crimes in Srebrenica. 
> Drazen Edemovic, a Croatian citizen, confirmed everything in his 
> testimony during the trial.
>
> Matic estimated that the Hague Tribunal is a blackmailing machinery for 
> recruiting such criminals, and, if somebody performs dirty work for 
> them, the doors of the European Union open for him widely and he can 
> move freely without a passport.
>
> He also stressed that Petrusic committed a series of crimes in the very 
> EU.
>
> One of the arrested members of "Spider" group, commander of the prison 
> in Vogosca - Vlaco, although at the Hague Tribunal circular, went to 
> France without a passport.
>
> The French Intelligence Service exercises organized state terrorism 
> against other countries, particularly against Yugoslavia in the past 
> several years, said Matic, stressing that the Hague Tribunal certainly 
> wouldn't ask for their extradition, because they could reveal who and 
> how hired them.
>

Dopo una serie di violente accuse alla Francia, Matic parla della recente
guerra per il Kosovo, durante la quale Petrusic e gli altri sarebbero
scesi in campo commettendo o inscenando crimini ai danni della popolazione
di nazionalita' schipetara, documentandoli e poi "rivendendoli" in Occidente,
arrecando un ulteriore gravissimo danno alla immagine della RFJ e dei serbi.

>
> When the members of "Spider" tried to infiltrate in the Yugoslav 
> structures, they planned to form a terrorist group called "Balkan 
> Express".
> 
> The day before the NATO aggression, Petrusic comes to Yugoslavia in 
> order to infiltrate his friends in the Yugoslav Army as volunteers, 
> through his acquaintances within the lower ranks. Their task was to kill 
> commander Remi in Kosovo-Metohija, but they failed even after 25 days of 
> "work", said Matic.
>
> However, it was noticed that Petrusic used cellular phone, and there 
> were also guided attacks on Kosmet.
>
> Explaining who the group operated in Kosmet, Matic said that "Spider" 
> committed several typical crimes against the Albanians, killing them, 
> dressing them in KLA uniforms, photographing them and sending the 
> pictures to Sarajevo, claiming that it was allegedly done by the YA. 
> They wanted to cause another demonizing of Serbian population.
>
> Furthermore, Matic said that this was the first operation performed by 
> the members of "Spider" group. (...)
>

--- LA FIGURA DI DRASKOVIC

In un'altra occasione Matic, ancora prendendo spunto dalla operazione "Ragno",
si scaglia contro Vuk Draskovic, leader del Partito Serbo per il Rinnovamento, 
di ispirazione monarchica e liberale ma soprattutto "storicamente" vicinissimo 
alla Francia:

> http://www.serbia-info.com/news/2000-01/09/16651.html
>
> Federal Minister of Information: The
> newest NATO goal - Serbs against Serbs
>
> January 09, 2000
>
> (...)
>
> On the celebration that took place in the premises of "Filmske Novosti"
> magazine, a video tape was played, showing recently arrested leader of
> the spy-terrorist group "Spider", Jugoslav Petrusic, who said that he took
> Vuk Draskovic to the French Intelligence Service several times, and that
> Mr. Draskovic asked for money while "Danica was much more talkative".
>
> Stating that Draskovic is "directly talking with the heads of foreign
> Intelligence services, with whom he wants to reach agreements regarding
> certain activities in Yugoslavia", Matic stressed that this way Draskovic
> showed his real and true interests "while a multiple killer, whose
> employers are the French, was taking him to conversations in that
> country".
>
> Federal Minister of Information pointed to the significance of "Filmske
> Novosti" in filing data on who was who in Yugoslavia and who fought to
> defend it from those who attacked its independence and freedom, and
> who secretly offered various services to the aggressors. 

Benche' sui nostri organi di informazione la storia di questa rete terroristica
sia stata trattata in maniera frammentaria e non sia stata piu' ripresa 
in seguito, va detto che l'eco dello scandalo relativo alla operazione 
"Ragno" in Jugoslavia non si e' affatto spento, e non solo dal punto di 
vista della polemica politica ma anche nelle sedi giudiziarie.

--- UN ALTRO "ESERCITO DI LIBERAZIONE"...

Ancora il 2 febbraio il notiziario di Radio B92 riportava le accuse 
formulate contro un sedicente "Esercito di Liberazione della Serbia" che
sarebbe anche responsabile del fallito attentato proprio contro Vuk
Draskovic. Su quell'incidente stradale dello scorso autunno, nel quale 
Draskovic e' scampato per un pelo, si e' scatenata una ridda di ipotesi e
recriminazioni. E' bene pero' ricordare che in Occidente non sono state
certo gradite le prese di posizione di Draskovic contro la aggressione della 
primavera 1999, ne' la sua partecipazione al governo della Serbia nei 
momenti piu' "caldi" della crisi del Kosmet, ne' la sua continua polemica
contro gli altri settori della opposizione filo-occidentale, da Djindjic agli
ambienti secessionisti montenegrini. 

> Serbian Liberation Army members charged with Milosevic murder plot
>
> BELGRADE, Wednesday - The Belgrade Military Court today charged members 
> of the Serbian Liberation Army with planning to assassinate Yugoslav 
> President Slobodan Milosevic and senior army officer Nebojsa Pavkovic. 
> Defence lawyer Borivoje Borovic told media that the defendants were also 
> charges with forming a terrorist organisation and attempting to assassinate 
> the leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic. The Belgrade 
> Military Court today remanded the defendants in custody and passed the case 
> to the military court in the southern Serbian city of Nis. 

--- IL CASO TOMLISON

Ancora pochi giorni prima dell'assassinio di Bulatovic e' stata diffusa la 
notizia di un coinvolgimento, stavolta, del servizio segreto britannico in 
un complotto per assassinare Milosevic. La notizia, uscita in evidenza sul 
"Times" di Londra, veniva riportata come segue sul bollettino di B92:

> The Times: British Secret Service involved in plot to assassinate Milosevic
> (FreeB92, 29/1/2000 - http://www.freeb92.net/)
>
> LONDON, Saturday - Scotland yard have set up an investigation into the 
> alleged cooperation between the British Secret Police and a Dutch Art 
> smuggler who claims to have been involved a plot to assassinate Yugoslav 
> President Slobodan Milosevic, London's daily The Times writes today. 
> Michael van Rain was allegedly given the go ahead by the British 
> Secret Service to smuggle works of art in exchange for assassinating 
> President Milosevic and is now concerned about possible revenge 
> attacks since he has not received the money he requires to pay off 
> underworld criminals from the Former Yugolsavia who were also involved 
> in the plot. According to Van Rain, he demanded the equivalent of the 
> fighter Harrier which is valued at around fifteen million pounds for 
> his part in the alleged plot.

Questa notizia sembra riecheggiare una vicenda meno nota rispetto a quella
del "Ragno", ma altrettanto imbarazzante per i servizi di intelligence 
britannici. Essa viene raccontata nell'articolo che segue, scritto 
dall'editorialista del sito ANTIWAR.COM Justin Raimondo subito dopo 
l'assassinio di Bulatovic.

> Behind the Headlines by Justin Raimondo - Antiwar.com
> February 9, 2000
>
> WHO KILLED PAVLE BULATOVIC?
> The assassination of Yugoslavia's defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, by
> gunmen inside a Belgrade restaurant throws the spotlight once again on
> the former Yugoslavia ^Ö and dramatizes the developing crisis. For
> Bulatovic was a key component of Milosevic's ruling coalition of
> Socialists, Radicals, and Montenegrin loyalists, and his sudden violent
> death has thrown the country into a whirlpool of apprehension and even
> panic. As the chief official of the Montenegrin branch of Milosevic's
> Serbian Socialist Party, Bulatovic played a leading role in the effort
> to keep the tiny republic in the Yugoslav federation; he was the
> organizer of quasi-military police units in the northern part of the
> country, and was fully prepared to lead a secession movement if
> Montenegro should finally make its move and break away. As I warned in a
> previous column, the Montenegrin time bomb has been ticking ever since
> the NATO warplanes stopped dropping their payloads on Belgrade. The
> cold-blooded murder of Pavle Bulatovic may be only the first of many
> explosions. 
>
> BALKAN GANGSTERS
> Belgrade has been hit by a veritable wave of political violence: first
> the attempted assassination of Vuk Draskovic, the novelist who is also
> the leader of the biggest opposition party, the Serbian Renewal
> Movement; once a member of Milosevic's government, he is the most
> popular and charismatic of the opposition leaders. Then there was the
> killing of Arkan, the notorious leader of Serbian paramilitary outfits
> blamed for most of the prewar killing on the ground in Kosovo, gunned
> down after dinner at one of Belgrade's finer hotels. And now this. It is
> like something out of a grade "B" movie, Balkan Gangsters, in which hit
> men and gun molls frolic through the Weimaresque backdrop of Milosevic's
> Belgrade, strafing the streets with gunfire to the strains of "Cabaret."
> But who are these Balkan gangsters? 
>
> THE USUAL SUSPECTS
> While the Serbian police have captured Bulatovic's assassin, the New
> York Times reports that "they say that the organizers of the deed remain
> at large." Who be they? There are several schools of thought on that
> question, best summarized by Radio B-52's very interesting account,
> which quotes a Serbian government official as saying that 
> "the murder could easily be the work of the Kosovo Liberation. Other
> speculation went further afield, with the Serbian Radical Party accusing
> US, British and French intelligence services of masterminding the
> murder. The US State Department said today that the murder of Bulatovic
> was new proof that the Belgrade regime was maintaining power by
> spreading fear, crime and violence. State Department spokesman Philip
> Reeker told media that only a democratic Serbia could relieve its
> citizens of the evil which controlled their destiny."
>
> TO FAR AFIELD?
> But why is it too far afield to suggest that Western intelligence
> agencies may have been behind the cold-blooded murder of their declared
> enemies? It was Bill Clinton, after all, who declared in May of last
> year that the US would launch covert operations to overthrow Milosevic;
> since the end of phase one of the Kosovo war, the US has been openly
> supporting the Alliance for Change, a quarrelsome coalition of tiny
> parties with more officials than actual members, and continuously
> declaring that Milosevic and his allies must go ^Ö voluntarily if
> possible, violently if need be. While the Administration denied reports
> that the President's Top Secret executive order would authorize KLA
> operations inside Yugoslavia, no one expected them to admit it.
> Certainly this theory, favored by the Yugoslav government, is more
> credible than the Orwellian explanation put out by the US State
> Department, which expects the world to believe that Milosevic killed a
> loyal henchman ^Ö one who was, moreover, a key figure at the focal
> point of the developing crisis in Montenegro. 
>
> THE MURDER OF ARKAN
> The US line on the Bulatovic assassination was meant to echo an
> undercurrent in the reporting of the Arkan murder, in which it was
> widely remarked that perhaps Milosevic was trying to get rid of someone
> who knew too much. But that, too, was not believable. For how did
> Milosevic benefit from Arkan's death? The idea that he was trying to
> silence a witness complicit in war crimes is laughable: in order to
> really achieve this, Milosevic would have to execute each and every
> surviving Serbian paramilitary, in what would amount to a highly
> improbable act of self-immolation. 
>
> COLLABORATION OR ANARCHY
> On the other hand, Arkan's death fed into the atmosphere of uncertainty
> and disintegration inside Yugoslavia, and we all know who benefits from
> that development. It was all too predictable that some elements of the
> opposition would use these killings to carry out their role as NATO's
> fifth column, and presenting themselves as the only alternative to
> anarchy. The headline on the Reuters story said it all: "Serbia in
> Chaos, Milosevic Opponents Say." The most immediate beneficiaries of the
> assassination, the government of President Djukanovic of Montenegro,
> solemnly echoed this assessment: "Serbia has become a country of chaos,
> dictatorship and despair,'' said Miodrag Vukovic, a senior official of
> Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists. In this atmosphere, the
> decision to hold a referendum on Montenegro's membership in the Yugoslav
> federation could be implemented as promised by Djukanovic ^Ö without
> the threat of Bulatovic leading a rump loyalist Montenegro in the north.
>

Dopo avere inquadrato le possibili ragioni ed i possibili beneficiari 
della eliminazione di Bulatovic, Raimondo ripercorre la storia del 
progetto di eliminazione di Milosevic approntato dal MI6 (servizio segreto
britannico) nel 1992. 
La dinamica prevista in effetti e' la stessa con la quale sarebbe stata 
uccisa a Parigi la moglie di Carlo d'Inghilterra, Diana, divenuta troppo 
scomoda alla monarchia britannica anche a causa dei suoi sempre 
piu' stretti rapporti (finanche sentimentali) con il mondo arabo.

In pratica, Tomlison, un ex agente dei servizi britannici, parlo' della 
questione circa un anno fa, nell'ambito di una serie di rivelazioni sulle 
operazioni e sugli agenti dell'MI6. Tra le altre cose, Tomlison rivelo'
pure una azione progettata per uccidere Gheddafi, e diffuse un lungo elenco
di agenti dell'MI6 dislocati in vari paesi nel mondo, che ha avuto larga
circolazione in Internet.
Della vicenda Tomlison e del progetto di assassinio di Milosevic si fa 
riferimento anche nel sito http://www.insight-news.ch/Shayler/!milosev.htm
Ma vediamo cosa scrive Raimondo:

>
> MORE EVIDENCE
> It is always good to ask "who benefits?" But we must also have another
> kind evidence, if not straight from the crime scene then from the
> history of the suspects. There is plenty in the known history of Western
> intelligence agencies to verify their ruthlessness, their willingness to
> commit murder, mayhem, and worse. The CIA's assassination attempts aimed
> at Fidel Castro are common knowledge, perhaps because of the comic
> inability of our Covert Keystone Kops to pull off the job ^Ö in spite
> of trying virtually everything, from slow poison to an exploding cigar.
>
> THE TOMLINSON REVELATIONS
> In the case of the former Yugoslavia, however, the evidence we have is a
> bit more solid: the testimony of a former employee of M16, the British
> intelligence service, who says that the Brits were involved early on, in
> 1992, in a scheme to assassinate Slobodan Milosevic. Richard Tomlinson
> caused a sensation last year when he posted the names of M16 agents on
> his website, blowing their cover and bringing the wrath of the British
> and US governments down on his head. Tomlinson's book on his experiences
> in M16 was suppressed by the British government, and censorship was
> imposed on British newspapers and other media in order to prevent them
> from publishing the information, or giving out the address of
> Tomlinson's site. Naturally this edict had the exact opposite of the
> intended effect: in the age of the Internet, the list was soon posted
> practically everywhere you looked in cyberspace, in spite of fruitless
> attempts by the US and British authorities to close Tomlinson down.
> Among his more interesting revelations was of M16's plan to assassinate
> Slobodan Milosevic, a project described by Tomlinson in a letter to his
> lawyer made publicly available. Addressed "to whom it may concern," it
> demonstrates how the Brits ^Ö always the most gung-ho in Kosovo war ^Ö
> would stop at nothing in their effort to overthrow the duly elected
> government of a sovereign nation. Tomlinson writes:
> "From March 1992 until September 1993 I worked in the East European
> controllerate of MI6 under the staff designation of UKA/7. My role was
> to carry out natural cover operations (undercover as a businessman or
> journalist etc) in eastern Europe. The Balkan war was in its early
> stages at this time, and so my responsibilities were increasingly
> directed to this arena.
> "My work thus involved frequent contact with the officer responsible for
> developing and targeting operations in the Balkans. At the time, this
> was Nicholas Fishwick, who worked under the staff designation of P4/OPS.
> We would frequently meet in his office on the 11th floor of Century
> House to discuss proposed and ongoing operations that I was involved in
> and, indeed, many other operations which I was not myself involved in.
> "During one such meeting in the summer of 1992 Nick Fishwick casually
> mentioned that he was working on a proposal to assassinate President
> Milosevic of Serbia. I laughed, and dismissed his claim as an idle boast
> as I (naively) thought that MI6 would never contemplate such an
> operation. Fishwick insisted that it was true, and appeared somewhat
> offended that I did not believe him. However, I still presumed that he
> was just pulling my leg, and thought nothing more of the incident
>

In pratica, Tomlison rivelo' in una lettera di essere venuto a conoscenza 
del progetto da Nicholas Fishwick, un altro agente che come lui era stato 
destinato al settore dell'Europa orientale proprio nei mesi dello scoppio 
del conflitto in Bosnia (marzo 92 - settembre 93).

> 
> "A few days later, I called in again to Fishwick's office. After a few
> moments of conversation, he triumphantly pulled out a document from a
> file on his desk, tossed it over to me, and suggested I read it. To my
> astonishment, it was indeed a proposal to assassinate President
> Milosevic of Serbia. The minute was approximately 2 pages long, and had
> a yellow minute card attached to it which signified that it was an
> accountable document rather than a draft proposal. It was entitled "The
> need to assassinate President Milosevic of Serbia". . . .
> "The first page of the document was a political "justification" to
> assassinate President Milosevic. Fishwick's justification was basically
> that there was evidence that Milosevic was providing arms and support to
> President Radovan Karadzic in the breakaway republic of Bosnian Serbia.
> The remainder of the document proposed three methods to assassinate
> Milosevic. The first method was to train and equip a Serbian
> paramilitary opposition group to assassinate Milosevic in Serbia.
> Fishwick argued that this method would have the advantage of
> deniability, but the disadvantage that control of the operation would be
> low and the chances of success unpredictable. The second method was to
> use the Increment (a small cell of the SAS and SBS which is especially
> selected and trained to carry out operations exclusively for MI5/MI6) to
> infiltrate Serbia and attack Milosevic either with a bomb or sniper
> ambush. Fishwick argued that this would plan would be the most reliable,
> but would be undeniable if it went wrong. Fishwick's third proposal was
> to kill Milosevic in a staged car crash, possibly during one of his
> visits to the ICFY (International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia)
> in Geneva, Switzerland. Fishwick even provided a suggestion about how
> this could be done, such as by disorientating Milosevic's chauffeur
> using a blinding strobe light as the cavalcade passed through one of
> Geneva's motorway tunnels."
>

Fishwick avrebbe sottoposto a Tomlison un documento interno dei servizi 
contenente una "giustificazione" della necessita' di assassinare 
Milosevic e tre ipotesi su come procedere. In particolare, la 
terza ipotesi - la meno rischiosa - prevedeva di causare un incidente 
automobilistico a Ginevra nel corso di una delle visite di Milosevic alla 
Conferenza Internazionale sulla ex-Jugoslavia.
Il piano non ebbe un seguito immediato, e comunque nel giro di due anni 
(1995) Tomlison avrebbe rotto completamente il suo rapporto con l'MI6 per poi
incominciare a rendere pubbliche una serie di informazioni. Per questo suo
attuale comportamento da "delatore" gli viene oggi vietato l'ingresso in 
tutta una serie di paesi alleati della Gran Bretagna (dallo scorso anno 
anche in Svizzera, da dove pure Tomlison aveva rilasciato le ultime 
clamorose rivelazioni).

>
> THE FUGITIVE
> Tomlinson goes on to say that "there was no doubt in my mind when I read
> Fishwick's proposal that he was entirely serious about pursuing his
> plan. Fishwick was an ambitious and serious officer, who would not
> frivolise his career by making such a proposal in jest or merely to
> impress me. However, I heard no more about the progress of this
> proposal, and did not expect to, as I was not on its distribution list."
> He published the names on the distribution list, however, and presumably
> further inquiries should be directed at them. As to Tomlinson's
> veracity, one can only surmise that his motives have nothing to do
> either with financial gain or personal ambition: since 1995, when he
> broke with M16 and started making his extraordinary revelations, he has
> been banned from coming to Britain, the US, Australia, and France, and,
> last we heard, was on the run from spooks, having just been driven out
> of Switzerland. 
>
> AN EVIL CONTROLLING AUTHORITY
> Tomlinson's testimony is powerful evidence that the "evil" controlling
> Serbia's destiny is not centered in Belgrade, as State Department
> spokesman Philip Reeker would have it, or even in Kosovo, as the
> Yugoslav authorities suspect, but in London, Washington, and Berlin. The
> idea is to create chaos, to destabilize the country to the point where
> even the cowardly collaborators of the US-controlled "Alliance for
> Change" will start to look good ^Ö and seize the opportunity to break
> off yet another slice of Yugoslavia. 
>
> WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
> In this context, even the attempted assassination of Vuk Draskovich begs
> to be seen from a new perspective: for he is the only opposition leader
> who has failed to cooperate in any significant way with the NATO-crats,
> insisting on retaining his independence and unequivocally calling for an
> end to the Allied assault on his country. If the attempt on his life had
> succeeded, Milosevic would surely have been blamed ^Ö and a prominent
> obstacle to the US goal of consolidating the opposition under its
> control would also have been achieved. Of course, that's just a
> coincidence ^Ö right? 
>
> REMEMBER MUSSOLINI
> The terrorist campaign now being waged against Yugoslav government
> officials is aimed, first and foremost, at Milosevic. Remember that
> hours after NATO bombed his mansion, the Serbian leader was at the
> negotiating table and the war began to wind down. If assassins can off
> Arkan and Bulatovic in the heart of Belgrade, then isn't Milosevic next?
> The Bulatovic assassination is clearly a warning to Milosevic: back down
> or face the consequences. Once again, the NATO-crats seem to be
> underestimating both the Serbians and their leader. Whatever else he may
> be, Milosevic is a survivor: the death of Communism, the dissolution of
> Yugoslavia, the loss of Kosovo, the humiliation and decimation of defeat
> ^Ö after all that, old Slobo is still standing. If the NATO-crats think
> he will turn himself in to the International Tribunal at the Hague, and
> deliver not only himself but his country up to the Allied conquerors
> without a fight, perhaps they are engaging in wishful thinking. Whatever
> course the Serbian leader may take, it would be an error to mistake
> Milosevic for the Serbian people. In the unlikely event that Slobo runs
> up the white flag of surrender, his own people will doubtless string him
> up in its place.

Per concludere, Raimondo ricorda che un tentativo reale, pratico di 
uccidere il presidente della RFJ c'e' stato effettivamente: si tratta del 
bombardamento della sua residenza a Belgrado, nel quartiere di Dedinje, 
completamente distrutta durante un "raid umanitario" la scorsa primavera.

--- L'ARTICOLO DI "ORIGINAL SOURCES"

Per terminare, riportiamo integralmente il recentissimo articolo apparso
sul sito "Original Sources". In esso sono citate altre fonti ancora sul
caso Tomlison e si fa un parallelo con l'assassinio di Salvador Allende,
organizzato dalla CIA nel 1973. 

*** Would Clinton Try to Assassinate Slobodan Milosevic?

Will Creating Anarchy in Other Nations Become American policy?
By Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com)

February 14, 2000

One of my readers, T.V. Weber, who is very knowledgeable on what has and
is happening in Kosovo, e-mailed me a question:


In your February 8, 2000 article entitled "Is It Democracy or Anarchy that
Clinton and Blair Demand in Europe? America Found About KLA the Hard Way
in Kosovo" you end with the powerful paragraph: "Increasingly, it appears,
if voters in other countries don't vote the way the White House wants them
to vote, they are treated as enemies and either isolated, sanctioned or
bombed. And where does that lead? Quite often to the kind of anarchy that
now exists in Kosovo." My only question is: will this become domestic
policy? I would write myself off as paranoid, however I have several
friends in the mental health profession who insist that I am NOT suffering
from that particular neurosis.

My sister Roberta has a little saying about paranoia. "If someone really
IS out to get you, you are not being paranoid for thinking someone is out
to get you." We have this huge organization called the Central
Intelligence Agency which has a budget of nearly $27 billion. We don't
know how many people are employed there, nor do we know much about what
the people there do. It's a secret. Would the CIA do things that might
lead to anarchy in other countries, like assassinating people elected
leaders of other nations, for instance? Would any NATO country do such a
thing, do you suppose?

Well, spying and spies may be changing since the fall of the Soviet Union,
since the reason for the very existence of the CIA, which was created in
1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Truman,
was to coordinate the nation's intelligence activities. It was primarily
concerned with the threat of Communism and the Soviet Union. For the last
decade, of course, it has had to find other goals to justify the
expenditure of that $27 billion. The British intelligence agency has had
much the same problem.

What appears to have happened is an expansion of intelligence activity in
all kinds of areas and some of those areas have really bothered some of
the spies working in the agencies. Richard Tomlinson, a former British
Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) agent who had tried to tell the people
of Great Britain what some of their money was being used for. In 1998 he
said, in part, in an affidavit which was posted on the Internet to the
horror of the intelligence community:
(http://www.anaserve.com/~wethepeople/tomlin3.htm)


In 1992, as the civil war in the former Yugoslavia became increasingly
topical, I started to work primarily on operations in Serbia. During this
time, I became acquainted with Dr Nicholas Bernard Frank FISHWICK, born
1958, the MI6 officer who at the time was in charge of planning Balkan
operations. During one meeting with Dr Fishwick, he casually showed to me
a three-page document that on closer inspection turned out to be an
outline plan to assassinate the Serbian leader President Slobodan
Milosevic. The plan was fully typed, and attached to a yellow "minute
board", signifying that this was a formal and accountable document. It
will therefore still be in existence. Tomlinson named names, dates and
places and added: "This plan contained a political justification for the
assassination of Milosevic, followed by three outline proposals on how to
achieve this objective." Last week the latest in a series of
assassinations or near assassinations took place in Belgrade when the
federal minister of defense Pavle Bulatovic was gunned down by someone who
was able to "shoot with precision with an automatic rifle." The Bulatovic
assassination came only three weeks after the murder in similar style of
Zeljko Raznatovic, a militia leader and Milosovic supporter known as Arkan
in the lobby of Belgrade's plush Intercontinental Hotel. In early October,
on a lonely road south of Belgrade, a truck loaded with sand plowed into a
convoy carrying Serbian opposition leader Vuk Draskovic and four others to
a Sunday picnic. Only Draskovic survived. Draskovic supported Milosevic
throughout the bombing and was critical of other minority party leaders
for taking money offered to Milosevic opponents.

Of course, the spin put on all these assassinations and assassination
attempts is that they are all Milosevic's fault. For some reason we are
all supposed to believe that Milosevic would hire assassins to kill his
supporters and cabinet officers in highly public mafia style executions.

Would our beloved CIA do such dastardly deeds? Well, apparently even the
New York Times has its suspicions. In a front page story yesterday,
entitled, "U.S. Victims of Chile's Coup: The Uncensored File" the Times
reports that documents recently declassified by Clinton "make clear for
the first time that the State Department concluded from almost the
beginning that the Pinochet government had killed the men, Charles Horman,
31, and Frank Teruggi, 24." Horman and Teruggi were Americans who
supported the socialist government of Salvador Allende. Those documents
indicate that the CIA and the Pentagon of collaborated with General
Augusto Pinochet, who is now being accused of human rights violations, to
get the two men killed.

The Times reported: "U.S. intelligence may have played an unfortunate part
in Horman's death," said one newly declassified memo. "At best, it was
limited to providing or confirming information that helped motivate his
murder by the government of Chile. At worst, U.S. intelligence was aware
the government of Chile saw Horman in a rather serious light and U.S.
officials did nothing to discourage the logical outcome of government of
Chile paranoia." In 1980 the Government was forced to release these
documents through the Freedom of Information Act. However, they were
heavily censored in black ink, and appeared to clear the American and
Chilean governments of any responsibility. Now that Clinton has released
the total document, it is increasingly apparent that the CIA was involved
in helping the Pinochet regime find the Americans, who were summarily
executed by Pinochet's uniformed troops.

On April 23, 1999 when three laser-guided bombs landed in Milosevic's
bedroom, living room and dining room, the Serbs called it an
"assassination attempt." Kenneth Bacon, Pentagon spokesman, when asked if
the bombing of Milosevic's home was an assassination attempt, said that
assassination of foreign leaders was not "US policy."

I wrote in an analysis of the event
(http://www.originalsources.com/OS4-99MQC/4-23-1999.1.html), "Of course,
the reporter didn't ask what US policy is. He asked if the purpose of
bombing Milosevic's home was to kill him. Bacon didn't answer that
question. However, it is doubtful that the decision was made to bomb
Milosevic's bedroom and living room to improve his health."

So, to answer T.V.'s question, do I think Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are
capable of adopting a policy which is DESIGNED to create anarchy in other
countries? Yes. They are. I don't know if it is through sheer stupidity or
by design, but it sure is obvious to me that Clinton's expressed
determination to "get rid" of Slobodon Milosevic has simply moved from
bombing his bedroom in April of 1999 to trying to create fear, distrust
and internal wars among the Serbs who haven't figured it out yet.

To comment: mmostert at originalsources.com


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