by Sasha Uzunov
Waiter, there's a fly in my soup..a
hidden bug in my kebap (cevapcici)...!
Dr Georgi Trajkovski, the Yugoslav
diplomat believed to be the mastermind behind a dirty tricks campaign
to discredit Australian-Croats and Macedonians during the 1970s loved
to “entertain” his unsuspecting victims by getting them to come
to one of his favourite restaurants in the city centre of Melbourne
and hold impromptu interrogation sessions.
According to recently released files
kept by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO),
Trajkovski's favourite eatery was the Golden Grill restaurant in
Exhibition Street, Melbourne.
Trajkovski, Yugoslav Consul General in
Melbourne between 1975-79, would no doubt have tucked into the Golden
Grill's offering of traditional Macedonian and Balkan cuisine of
grilled meats known as kebapi (cevapcici), sarma (sauerkraut stuffed
with rice and pork mince), corba (soup) and so on as he tried to squeeze
information out of his guests.
The Yugoslav diplomat, originally an
ethnic Macedonian from Aegean Macedonia, now in Greece, also liked
his alcohol. ASIO documents reveal the Yugoslav Ambassador scolding
Trajkovski over his consumption of too much duty free alcohol.
Both ASIO field agents and desk bound
analysts were bamboozled by Trajkovski's bon vivant lifestyle, his
uncouth peasant manner and underestimated his ability to infiltrate
and undermine local Croat and Macedonian groups. Perhaps they are like
the antagonists in the 1992 action film “Undersiege” starring
martial artist Steven Seagal, who underestimated Seagal's character Casey
Ryback, a Navy SEAL turned chef, by dismissing him as “he's only a
cook!”
But Trajkovski, a married man with a
son and a daughter, despite speaking haltingly in English, was fluent
in Italian, the international language of romance. ASIO documents
reveal him trying to serenade an attractive Italian widow without
much success but then asking a diplomatic colleague to find him a 30
year old female companion.
MILAN LOZANKOSKI – fellow gourmand
& informer?
One of his alleged informers within the
Macedonian community in Melbourne during the 1970s, according to the
ASIO documents, was Milan Lozankoski (1932-2010), the then owner of
New Europe (Nova Evropa) Restaurant in High Street, Preston, Melbourne, but now
under new management.
An ASIO wiretap on the 18 April 1977
recorded this telephone conversation:
Milan from Nova Evropa asks to speak to
Trajkovski. The secretary tells him he won't be back till Thursday.
She asks Milan why he does not come to see them (at the Yugoslav
Consulate in Hawthorn, Melbourne). Milan replied that it is in the
interest of both sides that he is not seen entering the consulate...
...Milan invites Trajkovski to come to
Nova Evropa, but to let him know beforehand, as he wants to be there
personally – there are things which can be shown and others which
cannot. Trajkovski wants to have a long talk with Milan soon.
ASIO notation on the transcribed phone
wiretap reads: Milan seems to be an informer.
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