The "Alter Ego" of Ante Pavelic
Four months after the mysterious intervention to protect Ante Pavelic from arrest, this report - ominously, it is signed only by "Capt." - appears, essentially repeating the information gathered by CIC Agents William Gowen and Robert Clayton Mudd. This document is among the earliest to contain censored passages blacked out when passing through the CIA declassification process in February, 1998. The address listed for the Pontifical Welfare Commission for Refugees as well as "a certain ELIAS Ivica," - Via Piave 41 - is within blocks of the address given for Zvonko Kojadin, a chief Ustase captain in Rome, who according to this document lived at Via Piave 70. The reference to "8 Sept 43" is to Italy's capitulation and subsequent occupation by German and Allied forces.

 

AFHQ LIAISON OFFICE
I.A.I. - RAAC

26 November 1947.

 

Ref: 3938

SUBJECT: DRAGANOVIC Krunoslav Stefano.

TO: AC of S, G-2(CI), AFHQ.

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1. CS has been able to provide the following information on Subject.

2. DRAGANOVIC Krunoslav Stefano, fu Pietro e di Franci Maria, was born at BRCKO (Croatia) on 30 Oct 1903. He became a priest and was Professor of Theology at ZAGREB University. He has been in Italy since 1943 and is known as the 'alter ego' of Ante PAVELIC. As such it is his task to co-ordinate and direct Ustascha activity in Italy. He provides them with ;oral [sic] and material help and in particular he is able to send to America all those who collaborated with the Germans and Fascist occupation forces and so incurred reprisals from TITO.

3. He is helped in this activity by his numerous contacts with the Embassies and Legations of South America in Italy and with the International Red Cross and by the fact that the Croatian Confraternity of the College of S. Girolamo degli Illirici, where he has his office, issues false identity cards to the Ustascha. With such documents and with the approval of the Pontifical Welfare Commission for Refugees, located in Via Piave 41, ROME, which is controlled almost exclusively by Ustascha, passports can be obtained from the International Red Cross, where DRAGANOVIC has some way of ensuring their issue.

4. He was a trusted follower of Ante PAVELIC, the former Head of Croatia, he was entrusted with the archives of the Croatian Legation after 8 Sep 43, for safeguarding, as well as all valuables smuggled by the Ustascha.

5. Until a short time ago, he was helped by a certain ELIAS Ivica, working in the Pontifical Commission in Via Piave 41, who appears to have left for South America a few days ago with a group of Croats who were, for the most part, in possession of false documents.

6. Owing ot the delicate nature of this matter, more precise details could not be obtained.

 

Capt.
AFHQ LIAISON (FAI)

 

:: filing information ::
Title: The "Alter Ego" of Ante Pavelic
Source: CIA, declassified February 1998
Date: November 26, 1947 Added: January 23, 2003