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This pro­gram doc­u­ments the piv­otal sup­port that Ger­many and the United States gave to Croa­tia dur­ing the Balkan War. Vir­tu­ally a reca­pit­u­la­tion of the Ustachi regime (allied with Ger­many dur­ing World War II), “inde­pen­dent” Croa­tia received arms, mil­i­tary train­ing, diplo­matic sup­port and mer­ce­nary sup­port from both Ger­many and the United States. That sup­port proved deci­sive in Croa­t­i­aâs war with the Serbs. The broad­cast doc­u­ments the extremely close rela­tion­ship between Ger­many, Croa­tia and the Ustachi ele­ments that returned to power, once Croa­tia seceded from the Yugoslav Fed­er­a­tion. The seg­ments high­light the sup­port that emi­gre Ustachi ele­ments received from both Ger­many and the United States. One of the major points of dis­cus­sion con­cerns the impor­ta­tion of Ustachi into the United States for polit­i­cal pur­poses. The Ustachi were brought into the United States under the aus­pices of the Cru­sade For Free­dom, an ille­gal domes­tic intel­li­gence oper­a­tion. The CFF imported Cen­tral and East­ern Euro­pean fas­cists and Nazi col­lab­o­ra­tors (many of them war crim­i­nals who had par­tic­i­pated in Hitler’s liq­ui­da­tion of the Jews.) The brain­child of Allen Dulles (who became head of the CIA), the Cru­sade For Free­dom was man­aged for Dulles by Richard Nixon. The chief spokesman for the pro­gram was Ronald Rea­gan. The State Depart­ment machi­na­tions that allowed the fas­cists to enter the coun­try were arranged by William Casey (Reagan’s 1980 cam­paign man­ager and direc­tor of the CIA from 1981 until his death in 1986.) In time, the Ustachi and their fel­low Nazi col­lab­o­ra­tors evolved into a vitally impor­tant ele­ment of the Repub­li­can party. (Recorded in the fall of 1995.)