Alex Constantine’s Blacklist: Serbian Spy’s Trial lifts Cloak on his CIA Alliance
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Serbian Spy’s Trial lifts Cloak on his CIA Alliance.
As Milosevic’s intelligence chief, Jovica Stanisic is accused of setting up genocidal death squads. But as a valuable source for the CIA, an agency veteran says, he also ‘did a whole lot of good.’
By Greg Miller.
LA Times.
March 1, 2009.
Reporting from Belgrade, Serbia — At night, when the lawns are empty and the lamps along the walking paths are the only source of light, Topcider Park on the outskirts of Belgrade is a perfect meeting place for spies.
It was here in 1992, as the former Yugoslavia was erupting in ethnic violence, that 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.”
Alex Constantine’s Blacklist: Serbian Spy’s Trial lifts Cloak on his CIA Alliance
