Is CIA behind Yugoslav assassinations?
By Bill Wayland Yugoslav Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic was gunned down in a Belgrade restaurant Feb. 7. The assassination was “part of a chain of organized terrorism orchestrated from abroad,” charged Yugoslav Information Minister Goran Matic at a Feb. 9 press conference. It coincided with a new wave of terror against Serbs who have refused to leave their homes in the NATO-occupied province of Kosovo. Over the past three years at least a dozen Yugoslav officials have been assassinated. Most were members of the Yugoslav United Left or the Serbian Socialist Party. Is this a CIA “executive action” campaign to destabilize the government of Yugoslavia? Last October, at a session of the information committee of the United Yugoslav Left, Goran Matic had warned that “subversive and terrorist actions are being planned abroad in order to destabilize the country’s political and economic system,” the Yugoslav press agency Tanjug reported. Matic charged that Washington’s policy would “increasing
