An ASIO report detailing the Yugoslav communist government interference into the affairs of the Macedonian Orthodox Church in Australia.
YUGO SPY DREAM TEAM TAKES ON CROATS,
MACEDONIANS
– newly released ASIO files reveal a clever Yugoslav spy plan and a powder keg of information from the mid 1970s. These revelations could put pressure on the New South Wales government for a judicial
review of the 1980 Croatian Six set up.
By Sasha Uzunov
In one of the cleverest Good Cop, Bad
Cop, Worse Cop Routines used, a three man Yugoslav diplomatic spy
team lulled ASIO into a false sense of security and managed to create
mayhem within Australia's Croat and Macedonian communities as well as
other Yugoslav emigre groups in the mid 1970s.
After a six month wait and a false
start, ASIO has released two volumes on Yugoslav Consul General in
Melbourne Dr Georgi (George) Trajkovski. The files cover the 1975-77
period.
The ASIO files reveal a three man team
made of Trajkovski, playing the part of loud-mouth, uncouth
peasant; Petar “Pero” Lombardic, faithfull Trajkovski hatchet
man and man-servant, and a third member, Anastas “Aco”
Stojanovski, as the quiet back room plotter.
There is a veritable goldmine of
information, an intelligence powder keg, revealing names of local people
passing on information to the Yugoslav consulate in Hawthorn,
Melbourne; ASIO wiretaps of telephone conversations; and surveillance
of Trajkovski's every move.
According to a 1976 ASIO report, an
Australian government interpreter/translator heard Trajkovski
boasting to a visiting Yugoslav Parliamentary delegation:
“that none of the Croatian or
anti-Yugoslav clubs or societies in Australia posed a serious threat
to the security of Yugolavia....the Consulate had successfully either
infiltrated, undermined or obtained control of every society that had
in the past been a threat.”
Other explosive revelations include:
An unsuccessful attempt to win over
Canberra Croat leader Mario Despoja, father of future politician
Natasha Stott-Despoja;
Trajkovski's bullying of Melbourne
Macedonian Orthodox Church leaders into coming under Yugoslav
Communist control in 1976.
The bullying and physical intimidation
was so bad that the leader of the St George (Sveti Georgi) Macedonian
Church, Christos Pandelis Altis (aka Risto Altin, Chris Altis), a
former brother in law to Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner, Paul
Deliannis, went straight to ASIO headquarters to lodge a complaint.
Trajkovski's gatecrashing, uninvited,
to a Slovenian community function in Eltham;
Monitoring of the Muslim Bosnian
community;
The setting up of a rival “Croatian”
group, the Croatian Brotherhood Union of Australia, as a front for
Yugoslav government activities;
Trajkovski's mysterious disappearance,
and losing his ASIO surveillance team, in Adelaide and missing a
meeting with flamboyant South Australian Premier Don Dunstan in 1976;
ASIO confirmation of the existence of
Victoria Police officer and counter-terrorism expert, Geoff Gardiner,
who I wrote about in previous articles as being my source for
Yugoslav spying activities in Australia.
Link to Geoff Gardiner story:
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1105/S00247/brave-cop-who-kept-victoria-safe.htm
Brave Cop Who Kept Victoria Safe
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Link to Geoff Gardiner story:
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1105/S00247/brave-cop-who-kept-victoria-safe.htm
Brave Cop Who Kept Victoria Safe
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
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