PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 14, 2002
CONTACT: Cali Ruchala
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(312) 654-0737
THE TERRORISTS THAT AMERICA EMBRACED
Announcing PavelicPapers.com - A New Website Exposing the Ustase
Movement - http://www.pavelicpapers.com
CHICAGO -- More than fifty years ago, Ante Pavelic, head of a Nazi
puppet state called the Independent State of Croatia, arrived in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. While the rest of Hitler's Nazi henchmen were being
tried for crimes against humanity in Nuremberg, Pavelic and his cohorts
in the fascist Ustase movement -- responsible for the murder of more
than 30,000 Jews, 40,000 Gypsies and an estimated 500,000 Serbs --
escaped abroad and began planning for a new reign of terror.
Today, owing to the efforts of a new generation of Nazi hunters, the
documents which tell the real story of the Ustase's miraculous survival
are finally being published on the Internet.
A new Internet website, PavelicPapers.com, has been launched to publish
and analyze a tremendous collection of declassified intelligence
documents, court decisions and other materials which implicate the
United States government as well as the Vatican in the continued
existence this deadly terrorist organization. Files from the archives of
the CIA, the FBI and the US Army are augmented with original background
material, making PavelicPapers.com the most thorough resource on the
Ustase ever created and likely to be of equal use to scholars of the
Balkans or the Holocaust as well as students and readers who have never
heard of the Ustase before.
"Without Vatican and intelligence agency intervention, there's no
question: the Ustase would have ceased to exist," says Attorney Jonathan
Levy. Levy has been instrumental in fighting bureaucratic red tape to
find out the truth about the Ustase's survival, through multiple Freedom
of Information Act requests and lawsuits against the Army, the CIA and
the Vatican Bank, which is alleged to be responsible for the laundering
of millions of dollars worth of gold looted from Ustase victims.
The Ustase was formed by Ante Pavelic in the early 1930s in Vienna,
Austria. After Hitler's invasion of Yugoslavia in April, 1941, Pavelic
and his Ustase were placed at the head of a Nazi satellite called the
Independent State of Croatia. Within weeks, a massive bloodletting began
as Ustase fanatics descended on Serbian villages, slaughtering the
inhabitants by the most bestial means imaginable -- using knives, clubs,
axes and even chainsaws. Concentration camps for Jews, Serbs and Gypsies
run by the Ustase, such as Jasenovac, were exceedingly brutal, shocking
even hardened German officers.
After his arrival in Argentina, Pavelic was able to rebuild the Ustase
-- now enrolled as part of an American anti-Communist crusade -- with
cells in countries as far-flung as Australia and West Germany. All told,
the Ustase have been responsible for more than a hundred terrorist
attacks since 1945, including the bombing one airliner and hijacking two
others, the murder and extortion of dozens of Croatian-Americans and the
bombing of dozens of public buildings and monuments, including the
Statue of Liberty.
PavelicPapers.com was created by Cali Ruchala, a 27 year old publisher,
as a robust clearinghouse for documentation on the Ustase. "I was
appalled by the lack of information that's out there, even in studies of
the Holocaust," he says. "This is a terrorist movement that has lasted
for more than seventy years -- longer than the PLO, Hamas, and al-Qaeda
combined."
Governments and individuals have tried to keep these documents
suppressed for years, Ruchala says, and for good reason. "Their
involvement with the Ustase is a textbook case of what the intelligence
community calls
'blowback': a gang of thugs that American intelligence recruited to
fight the Soviets, but who went on to kill other Americans instead."
PavelicPapers.com is being published without institutional support for
the time being. "My primary goal is simply to get the information out
there," Ruchala says. "We should not subject the victims of the Ustase
to the indignity of being forgotten as well."
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TITLE: The Pavelic Papers
SUBJECT: A clearinghouse for documents about the fascist Ustase
Movement, from 1930 to 1990
URL: http://www.pavelicpapers.com
CONTACT: Cali Ruchala, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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