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Subject: USA BANKROLLED YUGO HATEMONGERS
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:51:27 GMT



Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit


         Washington Bankrolled Hatemongers in Yugoslavia

                          By Bill Doares

With the government and media whipping up anti-Serb sentiment and
decrying ethnic violence, you'd think U.S. policy has always been
to promote peace and friendship among the different peoples of
Yugoslavia. A look at the post-World War II ties between the U.S.
and the Croatian fascist Ustashi party exposes this peace-loving
stance as a sham. In fact, it shows that the U.S. promoted ethnic
hatred for 40 years in an attempt to destroy pro-socialist
Yugoslavia.

"In August the terror reached its height. The whole of Bosnia ran
with blood." That is how Brig. Fitzroy Maclean of the British
Army described the slaughter of 1.3 million Serbians in
Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. The bloodbath was carried out by the
Ustasha party of Ante Pavelic, the Nazi-backed dictator of
Croatia.

"Bands of Ustashi roamed the countryside with knives, bludgeons
and machine guns, slaughtering Serbian men, women and little
children ... In 1945, this terror ended when Communist partisans
led by Josip Broz Tito, himself a Croatian, drove the Nazis out of
Yugoslavia. The Communists united all of Yugoslavia's
nationalities into a federated socialist republic," Maclean wrote
in his book "The Heretics."

But what became of Pavelic and his Ustashi? Like thousands of
other Eastern European Nazi collaborators, they were provided
false passports and smuggled to safety along "rat lines"
organized by U.S. and British intelligence agencies and the
Vatican refugee office.

With the help of Reinhard Gehlen, commander of Hitler's Foreign
Armies East, the CIA recruited many of them for anti-communist
propaganda, spying and sabotage in Eastern Europe; others
broadcast ethnic hate messages into  Yugoslavia for the
CIA-funded Radio Free Europe.

Pavelic, garbed as a Catholic priest, was escorted to Argentina
by Monsignor Krunoslav Draganovic, says J.P. Maher, a former U.S.
Army Counterintelligence Corps officer.

Among the Ustashi war criminals given refuge inside the United
States were Pavelic's police minister, Anton Artukovic, who
directed the murder of 700,000 Serbs, Gypsies and Jews at
Croatia's Josenovic death camp. In 1951, the Justice Department
rejected a Yugoslav request for Artukovic's extradition because
"his only crime was against communists."

Other criminals were Stepjan Hefer, who as governor-general of
Baranja county deported thousands of Yugoslav Jews to Auschwitz,
and Anton Bonifacic, Pavelic's "culture" minister, now an officer
of the CIA-linked World Anti-Communist League.

Washington also pressured Yugoslavia to free Archbishop Stepanic
of Croatia, a jailed Nazi collaborator. In 1941 Stepanic had
welcomed German troops to Yugoslavia with the words, "Glory be to
god, gratitude to Adolf Hitler and loyalty to our Poglavnik
[fuerher], Ante Pavelic."

Washington's friendship with Ustashi war criminals was matched by
its hostility toward socialist Yugoslavia. In 1947, during a
border dispute between Yugoslavia and Italy over the port city of
Trieste, the U.S. threatened Yugoslavia with nuclear destruction.

Ustashis helped into exile by the U.S. have carried out brutal
terrorist actions, including the 1972 bombing of a Yugoslav
passenger jet that killed 27 people.

Now the U.S., Germany and other NATO countries are again
threatening to bomb or invade Yugoslavia. And they are allied
with the political descendants of the same Nazis that Washington
welcomed at the end of World War II.

If U.S. troops invade Bosnia, they will find themselves fighting
alongside the HVO militia led by Mate Boban, an open admirer of
Ante Pavelic, or with the even more right-wing HOS militia, whose
members wear Ustashi patches and greet each other with the Nazi
salute.

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(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted
if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World,46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; "workers@igc.apc.org".)

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