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----- Original Message ----- Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:37 PM Subject: Belgrade: Arrested American "Heads the CIA\'s Balkans desk" > Belgrade: Arrested American "Heads the CIA's Balkans desk" Rick Rozoff > Mar 18, 2002 02:35 PST > Serbian Deputy Premier Involved in Espionage Affair, > Army Says > > -Informed sources said Neighbor heads the CIA's > Balkans desk. > > BELGRADE, Mar 18, 2002 -- (dpa) Serbian Deputy Prime > Minister Momcilo Perisic was released on Saturday > after spending two days in prison in an espionage > case. > > The Yugoslav army has accused its former top general > of revealing defense-related secrets to foreign > citizens. > > "Just say I was released ... I am not guilty," Perisic > told the Belgrade-based News Agency Beta, adding that > he "can't reveal any details". > > An investigative judge ordered the release of Perisic > and others arrested with him on Thursday, his lawyer > Slobodan Bozic told journalists. > > But, in the first public statement since the arrest, > the Yugoslav Army (VJ) General Staff accused both > Perisic and Colonel Miodrag Sekulic Saturday of > revealing top defense-related secrets to foreign > citizens. > > "VJ intelligence has disrupted illegal activity and > has come into possession of evidence confirming the > suspicion that a criminal act of espionage was > committed," the army statement said. > > Perisic 57, a former chief of the general staff, was > detained on Thursday along with a U.S. diplomat named > as John David Neighbor. > > Informed sources said Neighbor heads the CIA's Balkans > desk. One of two others arrested with him and Perisic > at a roadside restaurant was a Yugoslav colonel in > charge of electronic surveillance, they said. > > Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica confirmed early > Saturday that the former general has been indicted for > espionage. > > Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic criticized the > action as a "scandal of international proportions", > but offered only a weak defense of Perisic, saying he > would be held accountable if the charges proved to be > true. > > Military sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that > Perisic and the diplomat were caught with secret > documents that could link former Yugoslav president > Slobodan Milosevic to war crimes in Bosnia. > > Milosevic is currently on trial before the > international war crimes tribunal in The Hague for > ordering ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, Bosnia and > Croatia. > > (C)2002. dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur > > > > --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
