MARTIN TRENEVSKI

TEAM UZUNOV exclusive: ASIO MONITORED MARTIN TRENEVSKI 

Macedonia's recent NATO ambassador Martin Trenevski, was a reporter for the then Communist Yugoslav state news agency TANJUG.

ASIO IS AUTHORISED TO ANNOUNCE - Martin Trenevski was monitored by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) during his stay in Australia as a correspondent/reporter for Communist Yugoslav state news agency TANJUG, equivalent to the Soviet Union's TASS news agency, from 1985-89.

TEAM UZUNOV put in a request many months ago and ASIO has given approval to declassify Volume 1 of Trenevski's file, meaning there is a Volume 2 still classified.

It also suggests ASIO concentrated a lot of attention and manpower in monitoring Trenevski's movements, phone calls, meetings an

d so on.

The file is due to be released by the National Archives of Australia within the next two or three weeks. TEAM UZUNOV does not want to speculate, not until it sees the file first, the reasons for Trenevski being put under Australian counter-intelligence surveillance.

The ASIO file might not contain anything extraordinary or it might. But we won't know until we examine it first.

Title
TRENEVSKI, Martin Volume 1
Contents date range
1985 - 1989
Series number
A6119
Open with exception
Reason for restriction
33(1)(a)(d)(e)(ii)
33(1)(e)(iii)
Date of decision
27 May 2015
Physical format
PAPER FILES AND DOCUMENTS (allocated at series level)

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