Principles of the Ustase Movement
1929: The founding document of the Ustase, presented in full English translation for the first time

The Conspirator Rediscovered
1990: Interview with IMRO leader Ivan "Vance" Mihailov on the assassination of King Alexander

"The Victorious Axis"
1929: The founding document of the Ustase, presented in full English translation for the first time

News Excerpt: Croat Leader in Hospital
February 18, 1939: New York Times report on the hunger strike of Ustase leader Branimir Jelic in the United States

News Excerpt: Dr. Jelic Wins in Court
July 18, 1939: New York Times report on Branimir Jelic's release from prison by court order

Pavelic: Ten Years Struggle in the Homeland
January 9-13, 1999: Lengthy excerpts from one of Pavelic's autobiographies, as serialized in a right-wing Croatian paper in 1999

 

Pavelic's Radio Address to Croatia
April 5, 1941: Excerpt from a radio speech Pavelic broadcast into Croatia on the eve of war, urging the Croatian people to "cleanse" the land of enemies

A Telegram to Mussolini
April 8, 1941: Letter Sent to the Italian Duce by Ustase leader Ante Pavelic on the Invasion of Yugoslavia

Katolicki List: The Foundation of the Independent State of Croatia
April 1941: Article from the Catholic paper Katolicki List lauding the formation of the Independent State of Croatia

Decree: On the First Croatian Government
April 16, 1941: Pavelic declares himself head of state and names his closest advisors as ministers

News: In the Sign of Sacrifice
April 27, 1941: Excerpt from an article by Father Franjo Kralik praising the work done by Dr. Ivan Merz's Croatian youth group as being in line with the "spiritual program of the Ustase"

Pastoral Letter from Archbishop Stepinac
April 28, 1941: The full text of Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac's exhortation for priests to participate fully in the work of the Independent State of Croatia

Decree: On Racial Affiliation
April 30, 1941: English Translation of the Ustase Decree and Law "On Racial Affiliation"

Decree: On the Protection of Aryan Blood
April 30, 1941: English Translation of the Ustase Law "On the Protection of Aryan Blood..."

Comparison Between Nazi and Ustase Racial Decrees
1941: Comparison between the decrees passed in Germany and the NDH giving precise definition to who was and was not Jewish

Stepinac Letters to Artukovic
April 1941-November 1942: Letters from Archbishop Stepinac to Interior Minister Artukovic on application of the NDH racial decrees

Order: The White Armbands
May 12, 1941: Order to municipal leaders for all Serbs to wear a white armband designating them as Orthodox

News: Victor Gutic's Visit to Petricevac
May 16, 1941: Eleven days before murdering the Orthodox Bishop of Banja Luka, Ustase prefect Victor Gutic visits the Franciscan monastery at Petricevac

Decree: On the Establishment of Courts-Martial
May 17, 1941: The complete text in English translation of the decree which established courts-martial for civilians in the Independent State of Croatia, in which the only legal sentence permitted was death by firing squad

Archbishop Saric on His Pre-War Meetings With the Ustase
May 1941: Book excerpt quoting a nostalgic newspaper article authored by Ivan Saric, Archbishop of Sarajevo

Order: The Expulsion of Serbs from Slavonia and Srem
June 2, 1941: Just six weeks after the founding of the NDH, organized, mass explusions begin.

News: Speech by Minister Milovan Zanic
June 3, 1941: Excerpt from a speech by the Ustase minister exhorting the audience to "cleanse" Croatia of Serbs, and adding that it was state policy to do so.

Decree: Ustase Command-Dubrovnik Order No. 188:44
June 25, 1941: Prohibition on radios and forbidding Jews and Serbs from congregating at night, signed by Dubrovnik Ustase prefect Ivo Rojnica

Report by Laxa on Unrest in Hercegovina
c. July 5, 1941: Report by General Vladimir Laxa of the Croatian regular army forces on atrocities by the Ustase in Hercegovina in the first months of the NDH

The Career of Andrija Artukovic
Excerpt from Wanted: The Search for Nazis in America on the career of Ustase Interior Minister Andrija Artukovic

"The NDH is an Islamic State"
Spring-Summer 1941: Book excerpt quoting Ustase Minister of Education, Religion and Cults Mile Budak on "Islamic Croats"

Letter: "The Franciscans Haven't Gotten a Dime"
Summer, 1941: Powerful letter from a Catholic priest in the NDH to his exiled Orthodox counterpart

Hercegovina in 1941
July 1941: Milovan Djilas' description of a countryside ripped apart by Maks Luburic's henchmen

Letter: "Nature Takes Its Course"
July 31, 1941: Book excerpt quoting a letter from a Franciscan priest from Koraca to the Ustase prefect at Dervanta, on the marriage of widowed Serbs to Catholic men

Letter: Slovenian Settlers on Massacres Near Vojnic
August 2, 1941: Found in the NDH Archives, this is a letter written by Slovenian settlers relocated from the German Reich, addressed to German General Edmond Glaise von Horstenau on the extrajudicial murder of 400 Serbs by the Ustase

Report: Seven Hundred Hostages Shot by the Ustase
August 6, 1941: Report on a rise in Chetnik activity and the corresponding massacre of 700 Serbian civilians from Sanski Most by the Ustase near Banja Luka

Letter from the Bishop of Mostar to Archbishop Stepinac
August, 1941: Book excerpt quoting the response by the Bishop of Mostar to Stepinac's inquiry as to the progress of forced conversions to Catholicism among the Serbian population

Croatian Police Report: The "Cleansing" of Serbs near Slunj
August 13, 1941: Shocking eyewitness report by the Croatian commander of a police platoon in Slunj about the mass expulsions, conversions, and slaughter of Serbs in the area.

Decree: On the Croatian Language, Its Purity and Spelling
August 14, 1941: Mile Budak on how people should talk and write, with a promise to "determine penalties for the protection of the purity of the language and its spelling"

Order: Request by General Laxa for Ustase to Leave Bosnia
September 11, 1941: Decoded communication from General Vladimir Laxa to the Ministry of Defense for "murdering and pillaging" Ustase units from Hercegovina to be removed from Bosnia at once before they provoke an even larger uprising

News Excerpt: "The Renewal of Medieval Times"
September 18, 1941: Book excerpt quoting an article in Il Resto del Carlino describing Franciscan complicity in the massacre of the Serbs by an Italian eyewitness.

Letter: Bishop Aksamovic on Prayer for the "Crusade War"
September 24, 1941: Letter from the Bishop of Djakovo calling on Croats to pray for a quick end to the war after the Nazi invasion of the USSR - and honoring Pavelic and Hitler

Stepinac's Letter on the Resettlement of Slovene Monks
October 3, 1941: Letter from Stepinac to Ante Pavelic on Slovene monks taking over the cathedral of exiled Serb Orthodox clergy

News Excerpt: "Love Has Its Limits"
1941: Anti-Semitic article often attributed to Ivan Saric, but actually the work of his subordinate, Father Franjo Kralik

Book Excerpt: Jasenovac Survivor on Fra Miroslav Filipovic-Majstorovic
Book excerpt of an interview with Nikola Nikolic on the Ustase priest, Fra Miroslav Filipovic-Majstorovic

Book Excerpt: Adolf Friedrich, Jasenovac Survivor
Memories of Jasenovac from Adolf Friedrich, a Jewish inmate of Jasenovac

Report on the Murder of 800 Civilians near Petrinja
December 3, 1941: Tersely-worded request for information by German General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau regarding the massacre of 800 "men, women and children" by the Ustase near Petrinja

Report on the Death of Peasants in Jablanica
December 4, 1941: Police report from Banja Luka on the massacre of 107 Serbs, "mostly boys from 12 to 15 years of age," and the massacre by the Ustase of mourners at a Serbian funeral

Government Release: The Declaration of War on the US and Britain
December 14, 1941: The document declaring the Independent State of Croatia in a state of war with the United States and England

Book Excerpt: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust on the Ustase Clergy
Excerpt describing the complicity of the Vatican and Catholic priests in the Ustase Terror

Book Excerpt: Catholic Origins of the Ustase Oath
"The intensity of Croatian Catholicism would now be transferred... to a political movement"

Letter: Glaise von Horstenau on the Ustase Concentration Camps
German Wehrmacht General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau's comments after his inspection of an Ustase Concentration Camp

Letter: Glaise von Horstenau on the Ustase Massacres
"The 'lucky' inhabitants were consigned to one of the fearsome boxcar trains; many 'passengers' cut their veins on the journey"

News Excerpt: Jews as "the Insatiable Parasites"
February, 1942: Transcript of Andrija Artukovic's speech to parliament denouncing "Judeo-Communists" as "poisonous and insatiable parasites"

Letter: Rusinovic on Meeting with Cardinal Tisserant
March 6, 1942: Letter from the NDH ambassador to the Vatican on a stormy meeting with Vatican official Cardinal Eugene Tisserant

OSS Report: Ante Doshen
March 31, 1942: "Doshen has been and still is, one of the best agents of Ante Pavelic" in the United States

OSS Report: Reverend Hugolin Feis
March 31, 1942: "This friar is a pronounced fascist and violently anti-democratic in principle"

OSS Report: The Croatian Central Committee
April 7, 1942: The formation of pro-Allied, anti-Pavelich Croatian emigre organizations in the United States

OSS Report: Serb National Federation
April 8, 1942: OSS agent "SK's" report on the activities of a Serb group's reaction to the Ustase massacres in the NDH

OSS Report: Croatian Fraternal Union Affairs
April 23, 1942: OSS agent "SK's" report on internal dissension within the Croatian Fraternal Union

OSS Report: The Croatian Home Defenders
April 29, 1942: The activities of members of the banned American branch of the Ustase movement, the Croatian Home Defenders

OSS Report: The Croatian Catholic Union
May 3, 1942: Initial report on a group the OSS considered heavily infiltrated by Ustase adherents

OSS Report: Activities of Dr. A. Pavelic's Exponents
May 5, 1942: Report on the pro-Axis activities of the former editor of the newspaper Independent State of Croatia

OSS Report: Axis Propagandists Within the Croatian Catholic Union
May 9, 1942: Report on a meeting of the Board of Directors of the CCU, in which the pro-Allied editor is taken to task for his writing against Hitler and Pavelic

Letter: Ambassador Nikola Rusinovic on Stepinac in Rome
May 9, 1942: Letter from the NDH's ambassador to the Vatican on the conduct of Stepinac during his interviews with Pope Pius XII

OSS Report: "Pavelic's Cossacked Agents"
May 19, 1942: The Rev. Spiro Andrianich and other Pavelich adherents in America

The Efficiency of Mass Slaughter
October 9th, 1942: Maks Luburic on the efficiency of his concentration camp system

Croatian Police Report: The Slaughter of Serbs near Pokupje
October 15, 1942: Report forwarded through the Interior Ministry regarding the killing of Serbs in Kordun and Banija since the NDH's formation in April 1941, including the notorious Glina Church Massacre

Special Assignment in the Southeast
Dr. Hermann Neubacher, the German Plenipotentiary in SE Europe, on the "Croatian Crusade of Destruction"

Letter: Letter to Minister Anthony Eden
November 13, 1942: An official with the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile in London informs the British Foreign Office of reports of mass slaughter in the NDH

Letter: The Fate of Father Franjo Rihar
November 17, 1942: Artukovic sends a Catholic priest to Jasenovac for refusing to celebrate the NDH and its Poglavnik

News Excerpt: Ivo Goldstein at the Sakic War Crimes Trial
June 1, 1999: Historian Ivo Goldstein on Jasenovac and the Jewish Problem

News Excerpt: Under the Government of the Ustashi Monster
November 11, 1993: Review of the History of the Yugoslav Jews, by Yosef Algazi, Haaretz

Letter: Lobkowicz on February 1943 Meeting with the Pope
February 9, 1943: Letter from the NDH's ambassador to the Vatican detailing his interview with Pope Pius XII

Letter: Lobkowicz on Meeting with Cardinal Spellman
March 6, 1943: Letter from the NDH Ambassador to the Vatican on a meeting with New York Cardinal Spellman at the height of the war

Stepinac's Address to Pius XII
May 18, 1943: Aide-mémoire by Stepinac personally delivered to Pope Pius XII at their later meeting

Letter: Lobkowicz on Stepinac's Meeting with the Pope
June 10, 1943: Letter from the NDH ambassador to the Vatican describing the general impression among Vatican officials of Stepinac's second interview with the Pope

Letter: Lobkowicz on July 1943 Meeting with the Pope
July 13, 1943: Letter from the NDH ambassador to the Vatican on a July meeting with the Pope

Proposal for Decoration for Nada Luburic
1944: Proposal for a decoration for Nada Luburic, future wife of Jasenovac commandant Dinko Sakic, for bravery

Decoration for Nada Luburic, Maja Buzdon, etc.
1944: Order signed by Ante Pavelic himself bestowing a military decoration on female concentration camp guards at Stara Gradiska

OSS Report: Memorandum on Yugoslav Groups in the US
June 28, 1944: Lengthy report including extensive background information the American branch of the Ustase movement, the Domobran

Letter from Erwin Lobkowicz on Stepinac in Rome
May 1943: Letter from the new NDH Ambassador to the Vatican on Stepinac's second visit to Rome, in which he justified the persecution of the Jews as abortionists

Book Excerpt: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
From the "Jasenovac" Entry

Book Excerpt: Evelyn Waugh on the Sarajevo Franciscans
From the Catholic novelist who spent some time as part of the Allied mission to Yugoslavia in World War II

Judicial Testimony: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (Excerpt)
Andrija Artukovic's role in the Holocaust

Judicial Testimony: Measures Taken Against the Jews
Testimony of Holocaust survivor Alexander Arnon at the Trial of Adolf Eichmann

Judicial Decision: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: Judgment (Excerpt)
"only 1,500 out of 30,000 Croatian Jews remained alive..."

Book Excerpt: Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt on the Destruction of Croatian Jewry

 

US Army File: Supreme Allied HQ to 12th and 6th Army (Austria)
June 5, 1945: "Ante Pavelic... may be in your area"

US Army File: Judge Advocate General to Army Counter-Intelligence
November 5, 1945: Form Inquiring after Pavelic's Whereabouts

US Army File: Rome Area Allied Command to CIC
August 8, 1945: "Is Pavelic in Rome? Is San Gerolamo Monostery used as a haven..."

US Army File: Dr. DRAGANOVIC' Krunoslav
Unknown: Information on Draganovic, Austria, Pavelic, the Vatican and the Krizari

News Excerpt: Interview with Marija Pavelic
May 22, 1992: Interview in Croatian Newspaper Globus with Pavelic's Daughter on his Whereabouts in the Summer, 1945

US Army File: Rome Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) Memorandum
August 25, 1945: On News Reports of Pavelic's Arrest in Austria

Crimes in the Jasenovac Camp
1946: Official comprehensive report by the State Commission in Croatia documenting crimes committed by the Ustase in the Jasenovac concentration camp

Alleged Vatican Protection of Jugoslav War Criminals
July 12, 1946: Reference to a number of Nazi-allied figures taking sanctuary in San Girolamo

CIA File: Organization of the Ustase Abroad
October 1946: Intelligence report listing names of Ustase cells throughout Italy and Austria with their area of expertise

US Army File: Background Material on Krunoslav Draganovic
October 10, 1946: One of the first and most crucial extant files tracing Krunoslav Draganovic's role in the Ratline

US Army File: Unidentified Document (Index Card)
October 12, 1946: Possibly Sent to Confirm if Pavelic Had Been in U.S. Custody in Austria

US Treasury: The Bigelow Memo
October 21, 1946: Report from Emerson Bigelow on the fate of the wartime Ustase treasury

US Army File: CIC Memorandum from Agent William Gowen
January 17, 1947: Re: article about Pavelic in the Swiss Press

US Army File: CIC Memorandum from Agent Gowen
January 22, 1947: Investigation of Pavelic's Vatican Sanctuary; First Appearance of Krunoslav Draganovic in the Army Dossier

US Army File: CIC Summary from Special Agent Robert Clayton Mudd
January 30, 1947: Overview of Pavelic's Biography to Date; First Allusion to the "Ratline" in the CIC Files

CIA File: Background Report on Krunoslav Draganovic
February 12, 1947: Agent Robert Clayton Mudd's report on Draganovic's past and present activity vis-a-vis the Ustase and Pavelic

US Army File: Cover Letter by Ass. Chief of Staff G-2 Robert Stuart
February 25, 1947: A moment of equivocation as to the subject's whereabouts when forwarding Agent Gowen's latest report.

US Army File: CIC Memorandum from Agents Caniglia and Zappala
March 15, 1947: "In Rome Pavelic took refuge in a religious institution..."

US Army File: Unknown Document (Index Card)
April 14, 1947: An index card pulled from an unknown source. Interesting that Pavelic is classified in this one in a catagory of "Yugoslav Anti-Communists."

US Army File: Investigation by Capt. Marion Scott
April 18, 1947: Long investigation report on Pavelic and other Ustase in Italy

US Army File: CIC Cover Letter to Scott Report
April 21, 1947: Note included with Scott report which casts doubt on the key informant's usefulness

CIA File: The Do Marius Report
May 6, 1947: A bizarre tale of a meeting with the Poglavnik

US Army File: Information Sheet
May 19, 1947: What appears to be information acquired from OZNA, the Yugoslav secret police, on Pavelic in Italy

US Army File: Unknown Document (Index Card)
May 25, 1947: Two sentence card, quoting Belgrade Radio as saying the British let Pavelic escape, presumably from their custody in Austria

US Army File: Summary of Information from Agents Gowen and Caniglia
June 9, 1947: Report confirming Pavelic has not, as others have reported, left Rome at all

CIA File: American Agents in the Krizari Campaign
July 3, 1947: Profiles of two Krizari operatives who claim Allied-American support

US Army File: "Ante Pavelic and other Ustasha Personalities"
c.July, 1947: Dated by other researchers in early July, this document appears to have been obtained in final preparation for Pavelic's arrest

US Army File: "Hands Off"
July 7 and 14, 1947: One of the most crucial documents in the archive: a two word, handwritten note appended to the bottom of this otherwise ordinary memo

US Army File: Memorandum from the Political Adviser to Supreme Allied Commander
July 29, 1947: "...military authorities should cooperate with the Italian authorities to the extent necessary and possible..."

US Army File: Memorandum from the British Political Adviser
August 2, 1947: Response to the American Political Adviser listed above

US Army File: G-2 Brief on Pavelic's Background to Allied Headquarters
August 7, 1947: In response to their request

US Army File: Memorandum by Agent William Gowen
August 29, 1947: In just 45 days, Pavelic has gone from a criminal to be captured to a potential collaborator whose chief victims - the Serbs - want him to be free as well

CIA File: Documentary Evidence of Krunoslav Draganovic's Ustase Activity
September 5, 1947: CIC Agent Mudd's report citing evidence of Draganovic's role in the Ratline, sent without results to his superiors

US Army File: Memorandum by Agent William Gowen
September 12, 1947: "...any extradition of Subject would deal a staggering blow to the Roman Catholic Church"

US Army File: Unknown Document
October 17, 1947: Small index card-type file with a few misc claims

CIA File: The "Alter Ego" of Ante Pavelic
November 26, 1947: Intelligence report on Fr. Krunoslav Draganovic

US Army File: Telegram Received by G-2
January 7, 1948?: Telegram regarding departure of Ante Pavelic from Rome

US Army File: Unknown Document
February 16, 1948?: Another index card-type file with a quote about the "new" principles of the Ustase

CIA File: The Croatian Resistance Movement (I)
June 14, 1948: CIA report on the organization and internal dynamics of the Krizari

CIA File: The Croatian Resistance Movement (II)
c. 1948: CIA report on leaders of the Croatian Resistance Movement, including the missing leader of the terror unit Crna Legija or Black Legion, Rafael Boban

News: Yugoslavs Try Fifty as Spies
July 13, 1948: News account of the Yugoslav trials of captured Krizari, mentioning Draganovic

US Army File: Rat Line from Austria to South America
July 12, 1948: Crucial memo from the CIC in Austria, written by the man who formed the Ratline with Krunoslav Draganovic's assistance

CIA File: Reported Arrival of Ante Pavelic in Argentina
December 2, 1948: Appears to be a microfilm document with information on the arrival of Pavelic and other Ustase in Argentina

CIA File: Franjo Cvijic and the Ustase Treasury
June 17, 1949: Report on movements of NDH bank president Franjo Cvijic and his expected emigration to Argentina

US Army File: History of the Italian Rat Line
April 10, 1950: Comprehensive history of the Nazi smuggling program and Krunoslav Draganovic's role

Order: Maks Luburic's Proclamation
August 9, 1950: The order from General Drinyanin (aka Maks Luburic) ordering Croats to cease enlisting in the armies of foreign nations

CIA File: CIA Internal Memo
October 16, 1950: Mentions Krunoslav Draganovic's relations with Pavelic, Macek and other Croatian leaders

CIA File: Notes from the Foreign Language Press
November 8, 1950: Newspaper reports on Krunoslav Draganovic and a pointed attack on Vladko Macek

 

News: Tito Asks Peron to Yield Pavelic
May 24, 1951: News report of an early Yugoslav extradition request.

News: Exile Denies Tito Charge
May 6, 1951: United Press article dating from Artukovic's first extradition hearings

CIA File: "An Uncompromising and Dangerous Extremist"
July 24, 1952: Overview of Fr. Krunoslav Draganovic's activity from 1943 to 1952

CIA File: Irregular Activity of Krunoslav Draganovic
October 1, 1953: Report, possibly intercepted, of Krunoslav Draganovic's alleged corruption

US Army File: Unknown Document
December 4, 1950: Index card-type file with contact information for the "Croatian Catholic Union"

US Army File: Unknown Document
1950s: Index card-type file, undated, from some larger file on the Croatian Resistance Movement

US Army File: Ustasha Resurgence in Europe
December 11, 1951: This document has been pulled by the CIA. The first page is a series of references to the file, but the next two pages are still classified, 51 years later.

US Army File: Unknown Document
June 24, 1953: An index card-type file referring to another report alleging Ustase using Caritas (Catholic refugee service) offices in Austria as an "information collecting agency"

MUNICH REPORT: Croatian Emigrant Movement (1)
August 23, 1954: Report sent from Munich, Germany to the US State Department on activity of the Croatian exile groups, including the fugitive Ustase in Buenos Aires, Argentina

MUNICH REPORT: Croatian Emigrant Movement (2)
c. October 1954: Second report sent from Munich, Germany to the US State Department, including information on Pavelic's meeting with Milan Stojadinovic and promises to cede Croatian territory to Italian and Hungarian rightists

CIA File: Attempt to Penetrate US Guard Companies
December 10, 1954: Summary of report detailing attempts by Krunoslav Draganovic to infiltrate US guard companies in Central Europe

Founding Declaration of the Croatian Liberation Movement
June 8, 1956: English translation of the founding document of Pavelic's Croatian Liberation Movement (HOP), signed by Pavelic and 12 former Ustase ministers in exile in Buenos Aires.

News: Pro-Nazi is Hunted
April 26, 1957: News report on the Argentine authorities' decision to revoke Ante Pavelic's asylum after the attempt on his life

Letter: "The Hand of the Ustasha"
1958: The editor of a Jewish newspaper in California reports receiving death threats after writing about Andrija Artukovic

News Excerpt: As the Surviving Jews Remember Artukovic
March 9, 1958: Transcript of an article from the Yugoslav Press on Jews' memories of Andrija Artukovic

News Excerpt: The LA Times on Artukovic's Extradition Hearing
March 11, 1958: The US Supreme Court rejects the original ruling that Artukovic's role in the slaughter in the NDH constituted a "political crime"

Letter: Artukovic in California
August 22, 1958: Report from the American Jewish Congress on Artukovic's appearance as a "featured speaker" at the Catholic Maritime Club

CIA File: Dismissal of Krunoslav Draganovic from San Girolamo
November 19, 1958: Document outlining circumstances behind Draganovic's departure from the former nerve center of the Ratline

CIA File: Summary of Activities of the SILC
November 20, 1958: Summary of the unidentified SILC, with reference to Krunoslav Draganovic's activities in Italy in 1944

Congressional Bill: "For the Relief of Andrija Artukovic"
January 6, 1961: A shocking attempt to forestall the extradition of Andrija Artukovic by a United States Congressman

Letter: The American Jewish Congress' Response to the Artukovic Bill
February 13, 1959: Response by a representative of the AJC to an earlier attempt by the same US politician to grant Artukovic permanent residency

CIA File: Request for Info, SETAF Verona
April 13, 1959: American intelligence in Verona's request for all documents relating to Krunoslav Draganovic prior to his re-recruitment

CIA File: CIC Reply to SETAF Verona
April 16, 1959: The CIC responds with an extensive description of Draganovic's Nazi-smuggling activities. Verona never mentions it again.

CIA File: The Re-Recruitment of Krunoslav Draganovic
May 2, 1959: US Army intelligence makes contact once again with Father Krunoslav Draganovic

CIA File: Report by Senior Agent "SARDI"
May 29, 1959: A senior agent, codenamed SARDI, finds glaring holes in Draganovic's story in this report

CIA File: Krunoslav Draganovic's Pay Records from US Intelligence, 1959-1960
May 1959-July 1960: Expense sheets from American asset DYNAMO, aka Father Krunoslav Draganovic

CIA File: The Doctor Fabiano Statement
July 8, 1959: Signed statement by Krunoslav Draganovic to sign for all money with a code-name

CIA File: Dottore DYNAMO
ca. July 8, 1959: Linked with the "Doctor Fabiano statement," reveals another Draganovic alias in negotiations with American agents

CIA File: The Re-Recruitment of Krunoslav Draganovic
May 2, 1959: US Army intelligence makes contact once again with Father Krunoslav Draganovic

CIA File: SETAF 41 Bona Fides for Krunoslav Draganovic
ca. September 1959: Instructions for agents on methods to establish contact with Krunoslav Draganovic

News: Ante Pavelic Dies in Madrid at 70
December 29, 1959: Obituary on Ante Pavelic from the New York Times

CIA File: Termination Files of Krunoslav Draganovic
February 7, 1962: Files under Krunoslav Draganovic's three codenames, detailing reasons for his termination from US intelligence

News: Priest, Termed War Criminal, Back in Yugoslavia
November 11, 1967: First confirmation in the press of Draganovic's defection back to Yugoslavia

CIA File: State Department File on Krunoslav Draganovic
January 9, 1968: Summary of Draganovic's public 'career' a few months after his defection to Yugoslavia

Unidentified Document: United Croats of America
September 3, 1964: Document among the papers of the American Jewish Congress on the "Second Convention of Croatian Unity" in America

 

News Excerpt: Australian Police Raid Office Of the Nation's Secret Service
March 16, 1973: Account of Australian police raid to uncover documents relating to Croatian terrorist movements from the Australian secret service, and a plot to bomb the motorcade of Britain's Prince Philip

Appeal of Angelo Maric (Australia)
August 8, 1978: Decision by the High Court of Australia on the conviction of Odpor member Angelo Maric for several 1972 Sydney bombings

News: Two Odpor Agents Convicted of Terrorism
December 1, 1978: Two Odpor agents are found guilty on federal charges following a bungled raid on the Yugoslav consulate in Chicago

Otpor Bombing in California
June 23, 1980: Report from the US Secret Service on an retaliatory OTPOR bombing in California against two Croatian-owned businesses

FBI Tracing Report on the Murder Weapon Used to Kill Anthony Cikoja
September 28, 1981: Copy of the FBI tracing report on one of the two murders of Croatian immigrants in the United States which Odpor was convicted of carrying out

News: Canadian Among Croatian Group Charged with Violent Criminal Operation
February 19, 1982: UPI article laying out the prosecution's opening argument in the Second Otpor RICO Trial in New York City

News Excerpt: 10 Croatians on Trial on Racketeering Charges
1982: New York Times article on the Second Otpor RICO Trial in New York City

Otpor Bombing in New York
July 6. 1982: Report from the US Secret Service on two retaliatory OTPOR bombings in New York City, after the sentencing of the six terrorists convicted in the Second Otpor RICO Trial in New York

CIA File: DOJ/OSI Investigation of Klaus Barbie
1983: First admission of the existence of the Ratline and Krunoslav Draganovic's role as a 'prime mover'

Judicial Decision: The First Otpor RICO Trial in New York
January 25, 1983: 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals decision reaffirming all but one charge against four Otpor members, including conspiracy to kill a prominent Croatian-American leader while he walked his daughter to school

Judicial Decision: The Second Otpor RICO Trial in New York
April 14, 1983: 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Summarizes the Case and Denies Appeal of Original Convictions under the RICO Act

Judicial Decision: Miro Baresic as Unindicted Co-Racketeer
April 14, 1983: Miro Baresic named an "unindicted co-racketeer" charged with extorting and conspiring to kill Croatian opponents of the Ustase in the United States

FBI File: Croatian Terrorism Investigation
April 19, 1983: Heavily redacted FBI file outlining a new Odpor bomb threat and new recruiting efforts for bomb-makers

FBI File: Rumored Arrests in Germany
February 7, 1984: Report from an FBI field office on reported arrests of Odpor activists in Germany in connection with the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics

News Excerpt: Escaped Terrorist Captured
April 18, 1987: UPI news report on the recapture of Zvonko Busic

News Excerpt: Hijacker Recaptured After Prison Escape
April 19, 1987: News excerpt on Odpor hijacker Zvonko Busic's escape from prison

FBI File: An Interview with Miro Baresic
Februay 17, 1988: Translated interview with freed Odpor terrorist Miro Baresic and a Chicago radio station

Judicial Decision: State of IL vs. Aleman (Extract)
March 21, 2000: More on the Ustase's Mafia Hitman, Louis Almeida

Article: Unofficial Diplomat
May 14, 2000: Ustase Attacks on the leaders of the Croatian Fraternal Union

Book Excerpt: The Extradition of Nazi Criminals
Overview of the extradition of Andrija Artukovic

Judicial Decision: The Extradition of Andrija Artukovic
August 8, 1985: Court decision denying Artukovic's eleventh hour appeal to thwart his deportation nearly 40 years after entering the country illegally

Diplomatic Cable: Baresic Paroled from Prison
June 1987: Unclassified telegram from the US Embassy, Stockholm

Diplomatic Cable: Baresic Deported from Sweden
December 1987: Unclassified telegram from the US Embassy, Stockholm

Diplomatic Cable: Baresic Arrives in Paraguay
December 1987: "Limited Use" telegram from the US Embassy, Asuncion

 

News Excerpt: A Camp Called Jasenovac
Sept 26, 1992: Journalist Robert Fisk's Visit to Jasenovac

News Excerpt: Croats Honor Author of Anti-Semitic Laws
February 10, 1993: Associated Press on "Mile Budak Street"

The Ustase Croatian Liberation Movement
1997: English translation of Croatian Liberation Movement (HOP) tract describing the movement's history

News Excerpt: The Return of Bolivia's Blood-Stained Dictator
1997: Draganovic and the Butcher of Lyons, Klaus Barbie

News Excerpt: Pope's Apology to Jews an Empty Gesture
October 30, 1997: "...Ante Pavelic, the Croat Fascist leader, arrived in Argentina dressed as a priest and carrying a certificate of safe conduct from the Vatican..."

News Excerpt: Holocaust Gold Taints the Vatican
July 27, 1997: From the Sunday Telegraph, UK

News Excerpt: A Vow of Silence
March 30, 1998: "Did Gold Stolen by Croatian Fascists Reach the Vatican?"

News Excerpt: The Vatican Response
April 29, 1998: One of the Vatican officials with access to the wartime archives responds to criticisms in these news stories and others

State Department Report: Holocaust Assets: The Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury
June 2, 1998: Report from the US committee investigating the fate of Nazi gold looted from their victims

News Excerpt: Protest Sent to the Hague
June 23, 1998: "The US Government was asked to drop the charges against Zvonko Busic and Ante Ljubas..."

News Excerpt: Peron's Bloody Ties
November 9, 1998: Krunoslav Draganovic and Argentina, the Last Redoubt of Nazism

Announcement Dissolving the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood
September 15, 2000: Unverified communique issued by "main revolutionary hq" dissolving the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood

US Congress: H.Res 235 IH
May 14, 2003: A resolution introduced in the US House of Representatives "urging the Government of Argentina to build upon the steps it has taken to shed light on the relocation to Argentina of Nazis and other war criminals" - including, by name, Ante Pavelic

 

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