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We “fell” for the report to the headquarters in Belgrade, that Tudjman sent a van full of priceless works of art from Ante Topic Mimara’s collection to the Vatican, Pope Wojtyla, as a promise of independence, and that it “magically saw the light. of the day “.
This is what the former KOS informant, the Croatian Vladimir Jadrijevic, who worked as an operative under the S-1 code before the bloody disintegration of the SFRY, says exclusively for “Novosti”. This member of the intelligence group of the then JNA did not appear in public for 29 years.
Today, the 68-year-old man testifies that after 58 days of incarceration in a Croatian prison, he was exchanged in a group that was exchanged by captured Croatian officials and doctors from the Vukovar hospital. It is planned, our interlocutor recalls, that on December 12, together with other intelligence agents exchanged, Ante Markovic will receive him in the SIV and give them medals “for service to Yugoslavia.”
– It was fun for me when my boss, Colonel Slobodan Rakocevic, told me to take us to Markovic’s house. While we were still on the run, we told him that the then Prime Minister of the Federal Government of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was secretly meeting with Tudjman and that he was not thinking well of Yugoslavia. Instead of going to the SIV, it was reported on the radio that “the Prime Minister went to Sarajevo to fight for the preservation of Yugoslavia.” Markovic planned to escape. And then he went to Tudjman, and we were left without decorations – recalls Jadrijevic bitterly.
Vladimir proudly tells us that his father was a Glavica supporter near Sinj, the godfather of the famous revolutionary Rade Žigić, and that he remained in the Zagreb police after the war. They lived in Pantovčak, at 37 Kukuljevićeva Street, once the villa of Vlatka Maček’s sister, Agata. In his house, he reveals, was the unofficial counterintelligence headquarters of the Croatian Udba.
BALLS IN THE MIDDLE OF CONTROL
JANDRIJEVIC suspects that his “murder” was attempted in the 1990s:
– One day I was missed by two drunken sergeants in the Hair Command. He was shot, it was determined, accidentally
– At the age of 18, in 1971, I was on my first assignments during Maspok. Besides us, there were also Krleža, Tuđman, Manolić, Perković. We were the “red nobility”, only they wanted to replace the color red with a chessboard in the most terrible way, Ustasha – says Jadrijevic.
He joined the counterintelligence service in 1977 during his military service in Podgorica and later in Split. He returns to Zagreb to “learn the trade” as an automobile electrician. Vladimir recalls meeting Tudjman in 1979, when he was driving a “taunus” and obsessively caring for him.
“Associate 1” tells our newspaper that the group has been carefully recruited since the 1980s. He introduced it to the “team”, guaranteeing “partner 2” Igor Sotirovic, who was also detained with him. Pajo Ćasić also entered the service through Vladimir and began, like him, with his father.
Vladimir Jadrijević / Photo by Z. Jovanović
– In prison, I heard that the Croats supposedly discovered 64 of us and that they did not find most of them. In fact, I was glad they knew little about us – adds Vladimir, who sent countless reports to Belgrade about everything that is being prepared in Croatia.
The army, he testified to us, had lists of “those who returned to Croatia from the Ustashas, their passport numbers, addresses, who go to Germany for training camps.”
– Everything was known about the acquisition of uniforms, ammunition, weapons, vehicles – Jadrijevic is categorical.
Our interlocutor affirms that Mika Špiljak was the man who led “the Croatian ship towards independence” after the death of Broz, and that Tudjman “was then the front”:
– He was given the “helm” with the words: Francek, you are only formally in charge of the bush, and the bush protected us and our camaraderie. It does what you know with the cattle: the “Kosovar” counts the words that the “service” had recorded from “A to Z”.
Jadrijevic stated that the group, which he said the enemy called “Labrador”, actually “fell” after the Croats arrested all the officers of the counterintelligence group on Maksimirska Street in September 1991, before they destroyed the reports and identities.
A group of JNA intelligence officers in Croatia never fully disbanded. Seven of them were exchanged in 1991. Others, who were arrested, remained in Croatia because they accepted “towers and cities”, and some disappeared in various ways, or reconciled. The former intelligence officer now lives in the suburbs of Belgrade, in an apartment he received, he says, “as a victim of the camp through a foreign donation.” In the service, whose decrees he keeps, someone “lost his records, including rank, pension data, housing …”
Jadrijevic with his team after the release / Private Archive Photo
VERA NIKOLIC SAVED ME
Jadrijevic recalls that after arriving at the Batajnica airport on the day it was changed, December 11, 1991, the seating hours in the vehicles of the Commando convoy were made by the people whose mistakes caused the group to fall.
– I was determined to sit down with Paja Ćasić and his wife Vera Nikolić, a legendary athlete, and officer Radujko Ćosić. After leaving the airport, we were stopped by an ensign at a civil police checkpoint. He asked that only me get out of the car. Vera saved me, who explicitly demanded that I be returned to the car immediately, Vladimir reveals.
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