Summary of the Activities of the SILC
It is uncertain what group the acronym "SILC" refers to, or whether this document represents a summary of a report or information gathered by field agents of the CIA. The "Committee for the Relief of Slovene Refugees" mentioned in the first paragraph was a group sponsored by the Ustase Office of Colonization. After the Serbian population of a region was murdered or uprooted, Slovenes sent packing from the part of their country annexed by the German Reich as well as Carinthia were intended to take their place - an agreement brokered by Ante Pavelic and Adolf Hitler during their first meeting as heads of state. What a group of Slovenes actually thought of this is illustrated in this letter sent to German Plenipotentiary General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau.

 

DOCUMENT TRANSFER AND CROSS REFERENCE
Subject of Document:
Summary of the Activities of SILC During the months of May-July 1944.

Analyst: [censored]

Date Processed: 20 Nov 1958

Cross Referenced to this File:

  
RI File No: [censored]

Dispatch on Source Doc. Symbol No:
DOC.#20 (Box 1)
     

 

(J) Dr. Krunoslav DRAGANOVIC

Subject is a Roman Catholic priest, born at BRCKO in 1903. He was on refugee work in SKOPLJE when war broke out in Jugoslavia, and in the Autumn of 1941 started and became President of a Croat-Slovene Committee for the relief of Slovene refugees in ZAGREB.

In August 1943 D. came to Italy to represent the Croat Red Cross, his mission being to secure the release of, or otherwise help Jugoslav internees.

D. was charged by the Serbs with being an ardent Ustashi, with ignoring all non-Croat Jugoslav internees, and when in ZAGREB, receiving support from PAVELIC, and working with the prominent collaborationist AVSENIK. No concrete evidence supports any of these charges, except that he was undoubtedly working with AVSENIK.

Politically he is fanatically anti-Serb, anti-Partisan and pro-Croat.

This man lives in Rome under the protection of the Vatican.

 

:: filing information ::
Title: Summary of Activities of SILC
Source: CIA, declassified February 1998
Date: November 20, 1958 Added: January 26, 2003