Attempt to Penetrate US Guard Companies
This document from 1954 alleges that Father Krunoslav Draganovic, between his first and second stint on America's payroll, attempted at least once to infiltrate US forces in Europe with "Croat refugees from Italy." Considering the mix of ordinary Croats and fugitive Ustase concentration camp guards and executioners hidden in Italy under Draganovic's care, this sort of freelancing was probably not thought of favourably - particularly in groups not "less than 20 men." If true, this would indicate that Draganovic was already working separately as early as 1954 on his own intelligence network.

 

[stamped:] 10 DEC 1954.

 

DRAGANOVIC, Fnu, Professor

 

Various sources of the [censored] have stated that the representative of the Croatian National Committee, Professor DRAGANOVIC, was in KAISERSLAUTERN during the Christman [sic] holidays. There he had a conversation with a Polish colonel of a US guard company complex. Topic of conversation was allegedly how to intensify the arrival of Croatian refugees from Italy to the guard companies in KAISERSLAUTERN. It is to work as follows: when the Polish share of guard positions cannot be filled by polish persons, the colonel will send a special delivery letter to DRAGANOVIC and will request a number of Croats. The number must never be less than 20 men. DRAGANOVIC gets the transit visas for these people in ROME and sends the people to KAISERSLAUTERN.

 

Uneval.

 

Ref: D-281026, Ops Memo dtd 29 Jun 54, File: IV-0926
Sub: Attempt to penetrate US guard companies by Slav groups outside Germany

 

:: filing information ::
Title: Attempt to Penetrate US Guard Companies
Source: CIA, no declassification date
Date: December 10, 1954 Added: May 25, 2003