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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY: Yugoslavia INFO: January 1947
SUBJECT: Dr. Ante Pavelich DIST: 6 May 1947
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SOURCE W.
1. Do Marius, a former Italian intelligence officer in Dalmatia and Albania during the war, recently visited Dr. Ante Pavelich at his quarters in the Vatican Monastery in Rome which enjoys extra-territorial rights. Do Marius commenced conversation with Pavelich by saying that he had visited many eminent Serb leaders in Italy and that they all agreed that a union of the historical provinces of Serbia and Croatia was impossible after the massacre of the Serbs and Croats by the Ustashi. Pavelich's reply was as follows:
"That has been my point of view in the past and thank God the Serbs have come to realize this for there are then no difficulties between us. I admit my guilt in regard to the massacre of the Serbs and I would be a very happy man if it had not happened. But that is past and done with. Tito now rules over Serbia and Croatia and we must liquidate Tito. If the Croats and the Serbs would work together, we could do this a good deal more easily. If again no agreement can be reached, Tito will continue to rule in Yugoslavia. As regards the future of Croatia and Serbia, I think Tito has failed to create a federative Yugoslavia and though one might speak of much, we cannot consent to discussion of this on the basis of any such regime as exists at present in Yugoslavia or of a confederation. We have to create three absolutely sovereign states bound together by a customs' union. We are in accord with the Slovenes; our frontier with Slovenia is the R. Kupa. With the Serbs, however, there are difficulties in this connection. I should be pleased if an understanding was reached concerning the setting-up of sovereign states, but we have still to come to an agreement over frontiers.
"In 1941, I was wrong in extending the frontier of Croatia as far as the Drina and Zemun. But in the first place it was the Italians and Germans who decided this matter, and in the second place I thought they would make concessions to the Serbs (by ceding them Bosnia and Srem), thus making the consolidation of Croatia easier.
"The majority of Serb emigres are followers of Draza (i.e. Mihailovic) and their politics are fundamentally those of Draza. Our problem is therefore simple for I have an agreement with Draza of February 1945 concerning the frontier demarcation of the Croat and Serb areas. Dr. Bracich first approached me as Draza's plenipotentiary and later Predavoc in company this time with a certain Croat who was with Draza (Do Marius could not recall his name), and subsequently General Djukich with Lt. Col. Andrich. It was confirmed on this occasion that the boundary line between Serbia and Croatia would follow the Neretva and Bosnia rivers. As you see there was no difficulty about that. This is indicated in letters from Draza which I have kept.
"My foreign representative is Dr. Machek. He is the representative of all the Croats. At the time Machek created the Croat Banovina 26 August 1939, I was against the idea, but I was not against him. For the rest, I am a follower of the late Radich and Machek, I am completely with him. During the time the Independent State of Croatia was in existence, I favored Machek's followers for I formerly belonged to the Radich party.
"The Ustashi Headquarters in Austria is located in Klagenfurt, Rome is the Headquarters in Italy. The chief in Austria is engineer Prkovich, former Minister of Forests, and in Italy is his brother, the former Minister of the Interior. They keep in touch with one another (as well as with General Mate Boban, the head of the Krizari in Croatia) by radio.
"The Krizari in Croatia are very strong. They were at one time divided into four groups. They are now united under the command of General Boban. Until recently, they experienced great difficulties in obtaining ammunition as Tito has been carrying out wholesale re-equipment with Soviet war material which is larger in caliber. In the meantime the English have sent them Soviet rifles and they can easily get ammunition now.
"The English help them in every way since they are anxious to have strong Krizari forces as a basis of resistance to Tito."
2. In regard to the question of finance, Pavelic made the following reply:
"When we crossed over into Austria bar gold was brought in two trucks and hidden in an Austrian monastery. When the English surrendered to Tito some 25,000 Croats and arrested Pavelich together with his staff and wanted to hand them over, they gave the English this gold and so saved themselves.
"When the crash came large sums of money were transmitted to Switzerland. The Swiss recently refused to hand over this
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