Krunoslav Draganovic's Pay Records from US Intelligence, 1959-1960
In late May, 1959, seven months after being dismissed from his monastery post at San Girolamo, Father Krunoslav Draganovic once again entered into the employ of US intelligence. The information in the following table was culled from nine months of expense sheets for Draganovic logged under one of his codenames, DYNAMO. During this period, Draganovic collected 830,000 in Italian lire, plus $25 in hard cash from US intelligence. On average, Draganovic received approximately 100,000 lire/month for reports and information. To put this into perspective, the mean salary for an Italian in 1960 was 47,000 lire per month. Thus from his first months on the job, Draganovic was making more than twice the average salary, just in money listed in these official reports. Clicking on the link for the first entry of each month pulls up a scan of the monthly expense sheet.

 

Month Italian lire US $
May 28, 1959 10,000 [1] 0
June, 1959 0 [2] 0
July 7, 1959 35,000 15.00
July 23, 1959 100,000 10.00
August 2, 1959 0 0
August 3, 1959 75,000 0
August 13, 1959 0 0
August 14, 1959 0 0
September 1, 1959 0 0
September 2, 1959 60,000 0
September 5, 1959 0 0
September 16, 1959 0 0
September 21, 1959 0 0
September 22, 1959 40,000 0
September 26, 1959 415
830 [3]		 0
October 1, 1959 0 0
October 2, 1959 95,000
450
400		 0
October 15, 1959 1790,
910		 0
October 21, 1959 60,000
800		 0
November, 1959 N/A [4] N/A
December 22, 1959 115,000
270
910
270		 3.34 [5]
January 1960 N/A N/A
February 1960 N/A N/A
March 1960 N/A N/A
April 1960 60,000 [6]
400		 0
May 1960 60,000
2,289
4,060
100		 0
June 1960 30,000
30,000
750		 0
July 1960 60,000 0

 

1. $16.00 indicated on expense sheet, but the report for this meeting (published here) indicates that this is a conversion for accounting expenses of 10,000 lire.

2. "No contact." Draganovic was conferring with his "organization" in June and did not properly begin working with US intelligence until July 1959.

3. Items in Italics represent expenses in connection with the agents' meetings with Draganovic: small amounts of money listed separately from the lump sum cash payments.

4. No records are extant for months marked "N/A". One should not assume there was no contact between the agents and Draganovic for these months, as the existence of June 1959's "No Contact" expense sheet indicates.

5. "Xmas Present (Parker pen and pencil set)"

6. From April 1960, Draganovic was no longer paid for information, but as the records indicate, collected a "salary" fixed at 60,000 lire per month.

 

:: filing information ::
Title: Krunoslav Draganovic's Pay Records from US Intelligence, 1959-1960
Source: CIA, declassified September 9, 1983
Date: May 1959-July 1960 Added: March 15, 2003