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As much of the world’s atten­tion focused on the NATO aer­ial assault on Yugoslavia in March of 1999, few under­stood the fac­tors under­ly­ing the strife between Serbs and eth­nic Alba­ni­ans in Kosovo. This pro­gram sets forth some of those fac­tors. Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of eth­nic and polit­i­cal divi­sions in Yugoslavia dur­ing World War II, the broad­cast high­lights Kosovo’s eth­nic Alba­ni­ans’ sup­port for the fas­cist invaders of Yugoslavia and their pro­gram of exter­mi­na­tion against the Serbs. Alone among Yugosla­vian eth­nic groups, the Serbs fought on the side of the Allies.

Next, the broad­cast reprises infor­ma­tion from FTR #48, con­cern­ing the Nazi char­ac­ter of the Eth­nic Out­reach Divi­sion of the Repub­li­can Party, lit­er­ally an out­growth of the Third Reich. Grow­ing out of the “Cru­sade for Free­dom” (an ille­gal domes­tic intel­li­gence oper­a­tion), this impor­tant but little-known branch of the Repub­li­can Party can deliver the swing vote in five key states dur­ing pres­i­den­tial elec­tion years. The Croa­t­ian emi­gre com­mu­nity that fled Europe along with the residua of the Third Reich plays an essen­tial role in the Eth­nic Out­reach Divi­sion. George Bush (for­mer CIA direc­tor and Pres­i­dent when Yugoslavia was dis­solved) was heav­ily involved with this Nazi milieu, along with for­mer CIA direc­tor Allen Dulles, for­mer Pres­i­dent Richard Nixon, for­mer Pres­i­dent Ronald Rea­gan and for­mer CIA direc­tor William Casey. This Croa­t­ian emi­gre milieu was piv­otal to the estab­lish­ment of Croa­t­ian inde­pen­dence (a crit­i­cal event in the dis­so­lu­tion of Yugoslavia) and is deeply involved with the regime of Franjo Tudj­man (a reca­pit­u­la­tion of the Ustashe fas­cist col­lab­o­ra­tionist gov­ern­ment of World War II.)

Much of the pro­gram cen­ters on Germany’s cen­tral role in caus­ing the breakup of Yugoslavia and actively pro­mot­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing in hos­til­i­ties there. After single-handedly pre­vail­ing on the EU to rec­og­nize the seces­sion of Croa­tia and Slove­nia, Ger­many pre­vailed on the U.S. to fol­low suit. In addi­tion to pro­vid­ing train­ing, arms, media and diplo­matic sup­port for both their Croa­t­ian pro­teges and the Kosovo Lib­er­a­tion Army, Ger­many has sent mer­ce­nar­ies to Yugoslavia and par­tic­i­pated in the aer­ial assault on the Serbs. This was the first time the Luft­waffe had been in com­bat since World War II.

Other pro­gram high­lights include: the Waf­fen SS back­ground of Bosn­ian Pres­i­dent Alija Izbe­govic; for­mer Pres­i­dent George Bush’s 1993 warn­ing that troops would be sent to Kosovo if fight­ing broke out there; major petro­leum explo­ration in neigh­bor­ing Alba­nia; Croa­t­ian war crimes com­mit­ted dur­ing an August 1995 offen­sive sup­ported by both Ger­many and the United States; the crit­i­cal issue of the sta­tion­ing of 28,000 NATO troops in Kosovo (the hos­til­i­ties erupted over dif­fer­ences on this issue.) (Recorded on 4/4/99)