LA Times: Milosevic House Chief Jovica Stanisic was a CIA man for eight years

The LA Times in 2009 reported that Stanisic was actually working for the CIA since 1991 and that, according to them, he was their man back then.

“Night, when space is emptied and the corners of the tracks are the only light source, Topcider Park on the outskirts of Belgrade is the perfect spot for spies. It was right here when in 1992 the former Yugoslavia was erupting into interethnic violence, a CIA agent traveled to a park break and shake hands with a Serbian intelligence officer”, starts the LA Times text.

The Serbian officer was Jovica Stanisic. He had a cold look and the reputation of a wicked man”.

But, CIA officer William Lofgren needed help. The CIA was totally blind to developments in Yugoslavia torn up by war”.

“Wars had erupted in Bosnia and Milosevic was seen as a threat to Europe's security, so the CIA desperately wanted to have someone within the” developments.

At midnight, the two spies (Stanice and Lofgren) created a relationship that remained undiscovered: For eight years Stanissic was the CIA's leading man in Belgrade”, writes the text.

“During secret meetings on boats and safe houses near the Sava River, he shared details and secrets of the Milosevic regime. He gave information about the location of NATO hostages, helped CIA operators in their search for graveyards, and helps the agency create a network of secret bases in Bosnia”.

In 2009, when this writing was written by the LA Times, Stanisic was on trial at The Hague “and the CIA had made an extremely rare move by handing in classified documents to the court listing Stanisic's contributions and testifying his assistant role”.

The documents were closed, but the LA Times wrote that one source told him what they contained.

Lofgren, now retired CIA officer, had told him. LA Times that the CIA had submitted documents to show “that this person known as a bad man had done a lot of good, despite that Lofgren says it doesn't mean he's acquitted of the other charges of”.

However, by putting aside charges, this man took actions that helped stop fighting and restore peace in Bosnia”, Lofgren tells the LA Times.

Stanisic's lawyer, questioned by the media, had said his client refuses to comment on these developments. Even the CIA didn't comment.

Even courts, since the documents were classified, the hearings he had handled these documents were kept closed.

But in a letter by Stanisic himself, written in prison, he admitted that he had been working with the CIA constantly.

I had institutionalised co-operation with American intelligence despite the two countries' extremely bad relations. My co-operation with the CIA has been of great help to keep the conflict from going further”.

But Stanispic's case prosecutor had said the shares to help the CIA only point to his power.

In his speech, Dermot Groome, he said that the ability to save life is exactly the same ability Stanisic used to take the life of”.

LA Times He had also made a profile in the writing with Stanisic.

To write that he had joined the Yugoslav service in 1975, while the country was still under Josip Broz Tito's communist regime. He was never considered any ideologist or nationalist. But he had a rare ability to spy.

“Stanisic is not a regular intelligence officer”, Dobrica Qosic, former president of Serbia in 1992-93, had said.

He's intellectual and not a radical cop. Educated and clever, he knew how to organize his service”.

Because of these abilities, Milosevic had made Stanisic his own spy, despite his distrust among them, writes the LA Times in the 2009 article.

The prosecutor at The Hague on his charges had indicated that, however, despite co-operation with the CIA, he was the one who formed the Scorpions criminal group.

He had presented himself before the video court, where he saw Stanisic telling members of my group “

While the next video showed images of Muslim men bound hands sent to the mountains to be shot.

While CIA officers who had served in the Balkans say to the LA Times that they had known Stanisic is very influential, but have not seen evidence he has committed war crimes.

“at”, writes the LA Times, “describe it as a key ally in a situation that was quickly getting out of control”.

As Lofgren suggests, at a meeting with Stanisic, he had brought him documents showing diagrams of where Serbian companies had built bunkers in Iraq for Saddam Hyseyin.

The scripture later indicates that Stanisic had proven his report to the Americans to be taken out of the shadow and institutionalised as official co-operation between agencies of the two states.

Stanisic also traveled to America and was hosted by American officers there.

Stanisic's expanded “Limies with the CIA had also become the main cause of the breach between him and Milosevic, who feared his spy was working against him. So in 1998 Stanisic was fired”.

The return of the LA Times text from Serbian media has come as a court decision is expected during May of this year.