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It knew everything because it was its own Covert
Operation.
The whole thing is bullshit and "Plausible
Deniability" - Eisenhower "it should not be obvious,
but if it becomes obvious, there should be plausible
deniability".
The whole "Croatian" army was equipped and trained by
the Americans, using allies whre necessary, but by
them.
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>
>
> [ And what about arms embargo imposed on the whole
> ex-YU ?
> Who supplied tanks and other military hardware to
> Croats?
> CIA, MPRI and Croatian forces launched operation
> "Storm" against Krajina
> Serbs and Canadian peacekeepers. The first sentence
> in the report is
> very untrue.]
>
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/616111.asp
>
> What Did the CIA Know?
>
> Ante Gotovina stands accused of war crimes. Now the
> Croat wants his
> former allies in U.S. intelligence to help prove him
> innocent
>
> By Roy Gutman
> NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL
>
>
>
> Aug. 27 issue - At a secluded military base
> on Croatia's Adriatic
> coast, an unpiloted CIA plane rolled down the
> runway, then climbed
> slowly over tall pine trees and headed into hostile
> airspace. It was
> July 1995, and a new conflict was brewing.
>
> SERBIAN LEADER SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC had
> conquered Croatia's
> Krajina border zone with Bosnia in 1991, and now
> Croatia was preparing a
> lightning assault to get it back. Americans in
> military uniform,
> operating from a cream-colored trailer near the
> runway, directed the
> GNAT-750 drone to photograph Serb troop positions
> and weapons
> emplacements. The images were transmitted back to
> base, analyzed and
> then passed on to the Pentagon. According to top
> Croat intelligence
> officials, copies were also sent to the headquarters
> of the Croatian
> general in command of "Operation Storm."
> The classified reconnaissance missions
> continued for months,
> until long after Croat forces had pushed the Serbs
> into neighboring
> Bosnia. And the information proved vital to the
> success of Operation
> Storm, according to the Croats. Late in the 72-hour
> campaign, Croat
> officials say, the drone photos showed Serb forces
> massing for a
> counterthrust. The Croatian commander of the
> operation, Gen. Ante
> Gotovina, massed his own troops at the point of the
> Serb breakthrough
> and shattered the assault. Now the successful CIA
> operation is about to
> become defense exhibit A in a war-crimes case at The
> Hague tribunal.
> Last month prosecutors announced the indictment of
> General Gotovina for
> atrocities committed during and after Operation
> Storm, including the
> murder of 150 Krajina Serbs, the forced displacement
> of as many as
> 200,000 others and the torching of thousands of
> homes. Gotovina, 45, who
> once served in the French Foreign Legion, denies any
> role in the
> atrocities, most of which occurred in the three
> months after the
> military operation ended. Yet he has refused to
> surrender to the
> tribunal, complaining that he would have to spend
> years in jail awaiting
> trial. Gotovina's Chicago-based lawyer, Luka
> Misetic, argues that U.S.
> intelligence will be vital to his case. "He was in
> the chain of command,
> but there was this other set of eyes and ears
> watching this operation,"
> says Misetic. "No one there [in the CIA] saw there
> was a problem with
> war crimes or a crime against humanity ... The
> information the United
> States possesses is relevant to establishing General
> Gotovina's
> innocence."
>
>
> Croatia: What Did the FBI Know?
>
>
> Now a NEWSWEEK investigation has shown that
> U.S. intelligence
> cooperation with Croatia went far deeper than
> Washington has ever
> acknowledged. According to Miro Tudjman, son of the
> late president
> Franjo Tudjman and head of the Croatian counterpart
> to the CIA in the
> mid-1990s, the United States provided encryption
> gear to each of
> Croatia's regular Army brigades. He says the CIA
> also spent at least $10
> million on Croatian listening posts to intercept
> telephone calls in
> Bosnia and Serbia. "All our [electronic]
> intelligence in Croatia went
> online in real time to the National Security Agency
> in Washington," says
> Tudjman. "We had a de facto partnership."
>
> A 'LIAISON RELATIONSHIP'
> American officials familiar with intelligence
> issues confirm that
> the CIA operated drones from a base near Zadar on
> the Adriatic coast,
> during and after Operation Storm. They also
> acknowledge what they
> describe as "limited sharing" of intelligence
> information with Croatia.
> (Two former senior administration officials,
> however, deny that such
> sharing was ever approved by the White
> House.) And although U.S. officials refuse to talk
> about encryption
> equipment, they confirm there was a "liaison
> relationship" with Croatia
> and other countries in the region to gather
> information.
>
> They also insist American operatives did
> nothing that
> contributed to war crimes. The United States "knew
> of a military
> operation being planned," says Pierre-Richard
> Prosper, the U.S.
> ambassador-at-large for war-crimes issues,
> adding: "We did not know about planning for criminal
> activity." A former
> senior administration official says the White House
> had "the usual
> scatter of information about individual incidents,"
> but no evidence
> "Croats were going out of their way to terrorize the
> Serb population."
> Retired Croatian army Gen. Ante Gotovina, indicted
> for atrocities
> committed in the Balkans, believes that U.S.
> intelligence information
> could prove his innocence
> The charges against Gotovina could be
> difficult to prove.
> United Nations chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte says
> in her indictment
> that Gotovina has both personal and command
> responsibility for
> atrocities committed during and after Operation
> Storm. The indictment
> specifically argues that the "cumulative effect" of
> actions by the
> Croatian Army "led to the large-scale displacement"
> of Serbs. But to
> many people who followed events in Krajina, that
> charge seems dubious.
> "The fact is, the population left before the
> Croatian Army got there,"
> says Peter Galbraith, who was U.S. ambassador to
> Croatia in 1995. "You
> can't deport people who have already left."
>
> Skeptics have also questioned whether
> Gotovina had a role
> in the executions of Serb civilians. "I cannot find
> a single document or
> fact which points to Gotovina" as the man who
> ordered the atrocities,
> says Ivan-Zvonimir Cicak, a leading Croatian
> human-rights advocate.
> Sonja Biserko, a human-rights activist in Serbia who
> interviewed
> hundreds of refugees from Krajina, blames
> "paramilitaries, police and
> ordinary citizens" for the crimes.
> Many Croats suspect Gotovina is being
> targeted because the
>
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