Hashim Thaci, an intelligence agent of Yugoslavia’s Titoist Secret Service (UDB)
How the venom of Titoism helped NATO’s nuclear strikes on Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
The Titoist Yugoslav secret service, spied on the Milosevic faction on behalf of NATO, organized Serbian chauvinist terrorist squads by which to launch terrorist attacks on Kosovar Albanians, as a way to provoke an Albanian chauvinist armed rebellion in Kosovo. That same Yugoslav secret service also recruited Hashim Thaci and assisted his Albanian chauvinist faction in consolidating hold over the KLA leadership (at the expense of the progressive faction led by Adem Demaci), and to then invite NATO and wage the war on the Yugoslav peoples.
The History of the USSR & the Peoples’ Democracies
Chapter 24, Section 1 (C24S1)
Saed Teymuri
…. Less known than the case of the Ustase leader and Titoist commander, Franjo Tudjman, are the cases of UDB chief Jovica Stanisic and the UDB-backed KLA commander Hashim Thaci, and their roles in the destruction of Yugoslavia.
The UDB had recruited a man named Jovica Stanisic in 1975:
Stanisic joined the Yugoslav service in 1975, when the country was still under the communist rule of Josip Broz Tito. He was never regarded as an ideologue or rabid nationalist. But he had a rare aptitude for espionage.
“Stanisic was not an ordinary intelligence officer,” said Dobrica Cosic, a writer and former dissident who was president of Serbia in 1992 and 1993. “He is an intellectual, not a radical policeman. He was educated and skilled, and he knew how to organize that service.”
(Serbian spy’s trial lifts cloak on his CIA alliance, Los Angeles Times, Greg Miller, March 1, 2009) (IMG)
Naturally, since the Yugoslav intelligence service was a front for all the imperialist-fascist enemies of Milosevic, the latter had to choose not between good and evil but between the evil and the lesser evil. Hence, Milosevic felt no choice but to appoint Stanisic as the head of the Serbian secret service, because although Milosevic never really trusted the imperialist-fascist spy Stanisic, the latter was nonetheless enough of an intellectual to be easier to control:
Milosevic made Stanisic his top spy, despite long-standing distrust between the two. (Serbian spy’s trial lifts cloak on his CIA alliance, Los Angeles Times, Greg Miller, March 1, 2009) (IMG)
That Stanisic was easier to control of course did not mean that the Yugoslav intelligence service which Tito-Rankovic founded was going to be less of a CIA-MI6-Mossad front. Stanisic simply continued his service to the CIA as early as 1992, the year in which he became the chief of the Yugoslav intelligence service, and he provided all kinds of services to the NATO enemies of Milosevic:
in 1992, as the former Yugoslavia was erupting in ethnic violence, … a wary CIA agent made his way toward the park’s gazebo and shook hands with a Serbian intelligence officer.
Jovica Stanisic had a cold gaze and a sinister reputation. He was the intelligence chief for Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, and regarded by many as the brains of a regime that gave the world a chilling new term: “ethnic cleansing.”
But the CIA officer, William Lofgren, needed help. The agency was all but blind after Yugoslavia shattered into civil war. Fighting had broken out in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Milosevic was seen as a menace to European security, and the CIA was desperate to get intelligence from inside the turmoil. (…). So on that midnight stroll, the two spies carved out a clandestine relationship that remained undisclosed: For eight years, Stanisic was the CIA’s main man in Belgrade. During secret meetings in boats and safe houses along the Sava River, he shared details on the inner workings of the Milosevic regime. He provided information on the locations of NATO hostages, aided CIA operatives in their search for grave sites and helped the agency set up a network of secret bases in Bosnia.
At the same time, Stanisic was setting up death squads for Milosevic that carried out a genocidal campaign, according to prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which was established by the U.N. Security Council in 1993 to try those responsible for serious human rights violations in the Balkan wars.
Now facing a trial at The Hague that could send him to prison for life, Stanisic has called in a marker with his American allies. In an exceedingly rare move, the CIA has submitted a classified document to the court that lists Stanisic’s contributions and attests to his helpful role. The document remains sealed, but its contents were described by sources to The Times. (…). This account is based on dozens of interviews with current and former officials of U.S. and Serbian intelligence agencies, as well as documents obtained or viewed by The Times. Among them are official records of the Serbian intelligence service, and a seven-page account of that bloody period that Stanisic wrote while in prison in The Hague.
In that memo, Stanisic portrays himself as someone who sought to moderate Milosevic, and who worked extensively with the CIA to contain the crisis.
“I institutionalized cooperation with the U.S. intelligence community in spite of the notoriously bad relations between our two countries,” Stanisic writes. That collaboration, he continues, “contributed significantly to the de-escalation of the conflict.” (…). In spring 1993, at CIA prodding, Stanisic pressured Ratko Mladic, military commander of the breakaway Serb republic in Bosnia, to briefly stop the shelling of Sarajevo.
Two years later, Stanisic helped secure the release of 388 North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops who had been taken hostage, stripped of their uniforms and strapped to trees as human shields against NATO bombing runs. In his own written account, Stanisic said he negotiated the release “with the support of agency leadership.”
That same year, Stanisic tried to intervene when French pilots were shot down and taken captive. Mladic “refused to admit that he was holding the pilots,” Stanisic wrote. But “my service managed to discover the circumstances and location of their captivity,” and shared the information with the CIA and French authorities.
By then, the Clinton administration was engaged in an all-out diplomatic push to end the war. Stanisic accompanied Milosevic to Dayton, Ohio, for peace talks, then returned to Serbia to carry out key pieces of the accord.
It was left to Stanisic to get the president of Bosnia’s Serb republic, Radovan Karadzic, to sign a document pledging to leave office. And Stanisic helped the CIA establish a network of bases in Bosnia to monitor the cease-fire.
Doug Smith, the CIA’s station chief in Bosnia, recalled meeting with Stanisic and a group of disgusted Bosnian Serb officials in Belgrade. As Stanisic instructed them to cooperate with the CIA, Smith said, the assembled guests “shifted uneasily in their seats.”
Smith began meeting with Stanisic regularly, including once on a boat on the Sava. In typically dramatic fashion, Stanisic arrived late at the docks.
“He emerged out of the darkness with bodyguards” and spent much of the evening talking about his boss, Smith said. “He intensely disliked Milosevic. He went off on how awful Milosevic was -- dishonest and crooked.”
(Serbian spy’s trial lifts cloak on his CIA alliance, Los Angeles Times, Greg Miller, March 1, 2009) (IMG)
Stanisic set up death squads throughout Yugoslavia in order to terrorize the different ethnic minorities. The international judicial bodies decided to prosecute Stanisic but the CIA rushed in to protect its agent. However:
The chief prosecutor, Dermot Groome, says that Stanisic’s actions to help the CIA and counter Milosevic only underscore the power he had. In his opening argument, Groome said that the “ability to save lives is tragically the very same authority and the very same ability that [Stanisic] used . . . to take lives.”
(…). At one point, Groome introduced a videotape showing images of Muslim men and boys -- their hands bound with wire -- being led into the woods and shot, one by one, by members of the Scorpions.
“Jovica Stanisic established these units,” said Groome, an American lawyer. And Stanisic made sure “they had everything that they needed, including a license to clear the land of unwanted people, a license to commit murder.”
(Serbian spy’s trial lifts cloak on his CIA alliance, Los Angeles Times, Greg Miller, March 1, 2009) (IMG)
The goal of such terror by Stanisic though was not to commit genocide against the ethnic minorities but to rather provoke those ethnic minorities into revolting against the central government of Yugoslavia in order to bring about the partition of that country. The intelligence service that Tito’s fascist gang established launched campaigns of terror until 1989 in order to suppress the voices that called for freedom from Titoist yoke. From 1989, however, the intelligence service was engaged in terror attacks not to suppress but to provoke. This was in addition to the vast economic inequality and the countless years of socio-economic oppression of ethnic minorities that Tito’s fascist gang established in Yugoslavia. Stanisic’s use of terror operations as a means of provoking Kosovar Albanian rebellions against the Milosevic faction was no coincidence. On the contrary, it was a part of the broader effort of the UDB network in Yugoslavia to support the Al-Qaeda terrorists and drug lords that made up the dominant faction of the KLA.
Stanisic’s henchman in the KLA was the infamous Hashim Thaci, the drug lord and bloody assassin, savagely betraying the Kosovar Albanian people. Years of the repression of the Kosovo national liberation movement by the Titoist fascist regime in Yugoslavia had resulted in the jailing or killing of Albanian revolutionaries and had allowed the elevation of fascist UDB agents in the ranks of the Kosovo Albanian militants organizations. One person backed by the Titoist UDB agent was none other than the notorious Hashim Thaci. Stanisic's UDB fascist secret service promoted Hashim Thaci, the head of the KLA, thus assisting the KLA war effort against the peoples of Serbia and Kosovo. Naim Miftari – a former KLA commander and a former special agent of the post-socialist Albanian regime's intelligence service, SHIK – confirmed that Hashim Thaci was backed by the Titoist fascist UDB. Indeed, Thaci’s connections to the UDB have been documented by:
Former KLA superior and former SHIK agent Naim Miftari…. (‘Naim Miftari: Gjykata Speciale e çliroi Kosovën nga regjimi i profiterit dhe përçarësit të luftës Hashim Thaçit’, Bota Sot, Interview with SHIK official Naim Miftari, July 20, 2022) (IMG)
One of Thaçi's comrades-in-arms, Naim Miftari, [who] has explained in chronological order, all the tricks and political bargains in which he was involved. He also mentioned the fact that Thaçi has been accused many times of murder, not only of LDK members, but also of his associates. "Hashim Thaçi, neither today nor in the future, can escape conspiracies or games behind his back, since he himself came to power with the help of games, where he is sometimes accused of many murders, not only of LDK members, but for most of his former colleagues. Let's go back before the war. (…).” (‘Thaçi i lidhur me UDB –ën, tradhëtoi UÇK-në?’, Bota Sot, Interview with SHIK official Naim Miftari, March 13, 2016) (IMG)
Indeed, in the interview with Bota Sot, Naim Miftari, the SHIK agent and KLA official, noted that a senior UDB official had helped Hashim Thaci ‘escape’ from the UDB prosecution and go to Switzerland:
Hashim Thaçi was a bad student, then after a while he was punished in absentia because he was a member of the KLA. With those "convictions" missing, he and some friends secure political asylum in Switzerland, where the main help is provided by the statements of B-S [abbreviated name], a senior member of the Serbian UDB in Belgrade…. Surprisingly, H[ashim] Th[aci], with their own group, are sentenced in absentia, as they surprisingly escape the arrests of the UDB, but Nait Hasan's group is arrested and some are killed in an ambush, like Zahir Pajaziti, and some are killed by torture in prison…. (‘Thaçi i lidhur me UDB –ën, tradhëtoi UÇK-në?’, Bota Sot, Interview with SHIK official Naim Miftari, March 13, 2016. Bold added.) (IMG)
Baton Haxhiu, an agent of the UDB and of Jovica Stanisic, was a liaison officer linking Thaci to the UDB. Documenting the UDB-Stanisic-Haxhiu-Thaci connection, Miftari said in an interview with Bota Sot:
"When Sali Berisha mentions the connections between Hashim Thaçi and Baton Haxhiu and Serbia … he is completely right. Let's not forget that Sali Berisha has been the main man of the Albanian government for many years and had access to the military intelligence service and SHISH, so these are very serious words. I justify it by the fact that our data from the ZKZ (G2) of the UÇK and TMK, then the Kosovo Police and the SHIK show that there is no doubt that Baton Haxhiu was before the war a collaborator and coordinating postman of Jovica Stanisic, the head of the Serbia [branch of] UDB, SDB, mediator of the meetings in Brezovica by the head of the UDB and the former communist leaders of Kosovo, so Batoni was important and is still important for the UDB (BIA) and a professional friend of Hashim Thaçi", Miftari said. (‘Policia e Kosovës, ZKZ (G2) dhe SHIK-u kishin të dhëna se Baton Haxhiu ka qenë bashkëpunëtor i Ivica Stanishiçit’, Bota Sot, Interview with SHIK official Naim Miftari, December 8, 2018) (IMG)
As can be seen, the UDB from 1989 launched terror operations against Kosovar Albanian civilians in order to provoke riots, and simultaneously supported the ‘escape’ of Thaci in order to make a ‘hero’ out of him. Thaci was protected by the Titoist secret service agency, UDB.
As mentioned before in C12S6, the Yugoslav Titoists were master pan-chauvinists. They supported the Albanian terrorists that massacred Serb civilians, while also supporting Serbian terrorists massacring Albanian civilians. There should be no surprise that the bourgeois-nationalists were stabbing their own nations in the back, through such bloody reign of terror, for such a thing as ‘nationalism’, in its classless meaning, bears no material reality, unless in extremely rare accidents. The question is not whether or not ‘nationalism’ is good or bad; the question is whether it exists beyond just one’s imaginations. And the truth is that nationalism, in its classless sense, has never materially existed, unless by accident. For almost all of the time, there have been two types of ‘nationalists’: (1) proletarian pseudo-nationalists, really just proletarian internationalists with a spirit of socialist patriotism instead of rootless cosmopolitanism, and (2) bourgeois-nationalists (not to be confused with national bourgeoisie), imperialist agents who preach the greatness of their own nation while allying with the chauvinist terrorists savagely massacring the nation whom the bourgeois-nationalists ostensibly uphold….
Click here for Screenshots of Source Documents
_________________________________
Join Mailing List by
emailing sovinform.tech@gmail.com
Place the following phrase in your
email subject/title ‘Join Mailing List’.
No further comment necessary.
_________________________________
Follow Sovinform on
_________________________________
The book The History of the USSR & the Peoples’ Democracies
is now available for easy print.
_________________________________