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How Milosevic actually fell: Details of a CIA secret operation approved by Clinton have been leaked The entire action that overthrew the regime of a notorious war criminal cost $ 40 million Author: writes Željko TrkanjecPosted: June 24, 2020 9:41 pm A scene in front of the Belgrade Assembly on Election Day, October 5, 2000, and Bill Clinton and Slobodan MilosevicGallery A scene in front of the Belgrade Assembly on Election Day, October 5, 2000, and Bill Clinton and Slobodan Milosevic Djordje Kojadinovic / AFP Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail RELATED NEWS MQ-9 Reaper drone NINJA BOMB The CIA's surgically accurate missile kills with knives that grind everything in their path THE BIGGEST THEFT EVER Big spy scandal in America: Elite CIA hackers stole secret information behind their backs There is a threshold for killing, and Milosevic has crossed it - former US President Bill Clinton explained to David Shimmer why the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in overthrowing the Balkan executioner from power in the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) in 2000. Shimer is a doctoral student in international relations at the University of Oxford, and his book "Set-ups: America, Russia and a Hundred Years of Secret Interference in Elections" will be published soon. He wrote an article for the prestigious magazine Foreign Affairs in which he brings hitherto unknown information about the activities of the CIA in elections in other countries. And it turns out that Đura Čvorović was right in the Balkan spy: "CIA, daughter-in-law, CIA, they ruined half the world !!!" It is a work of art from 1984, that is, from the Cold War era, when the CIA and the then KGB really competed over who would better undermine the elections. The American agency first embarked on such a deal in 1948 in Italy for fear that the left and the Communists might win the election. Big money was spent, but the Christian Democrats won the elections. And that pattern was later applied in a series of elections. The protection of democracy was not important, it was only important that "theirs" did not win the elections. If they succeeded by chance, then everything was done to sabotage them. And a coup d'etat, like in Chile. Because, as Henry Kissinger said , "These are too important things to be left to Chilean voters to decide." Two times And then the East German communists tore down the Berlin Wall. Shimer says he spoke with 130 officials, eight former CIA directors, directors of the National Intelligence Service, state secretaries, presidential national security advisers, a KGB general and Clinton. The conclusion is this: after 1989, the CIA launched secret operations only twice to influence the outcome of the election. It was Yugoslavia for the first time. And the operation succeeded. The second time was Iraq in 2005. And then she gave up at the last minute. Bill Clinton met with new Russian President Vladimir Putin before the FRY elections . As stated in recently declassified documents, Clinton told him, "These are important choices, but they are unlikely to be fair." A note from the conversation further states that Clinton said that Milosevic would certainly try to falsify the elections because he was bad in the polls. “It would be good for him to lose, but he’ll probably try not to let that happen,” Clinton said. Putin started complaining about the NATO intervention in Serbia a year earlier. "They did not consult with us on the decision to bomb Yugoslavia. That was not fair. " The US administration, both the White House and Congress, have decided that every effort should be made to prevent Milosevic from remaining in power. Clinton knew him well and told Shimer that he had no problem approving the decision to involve the CIA in the election process. "He was a ruthless killer who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people," the former US president concluded. And the operation could begin. image Scene in front of the Assembly in Belgrade on Election Day, October 5, 2000 Djordje Kojadinovic / AFP From mid-1999 to the end of 2000, various public and private American organizations spent about $ 40 million on various programs to support the Serbian opposition, but also independent media, civic organizations, and election-promoting initiatives. It was a public part of the operation and was supposed to create the same rules of the game for both sides. John Sipher,an agency operative (after the election he will become the head of an agency station in Serbia), actively participated in the project and confirmed that the CIA had poured "millions of dollars into the campaign against Milosevic." “One of the models of action was meeting with key opposition people abroad where they got their hands on cash,” he said. The primary goal was to influence people’s consciousness, not to falsify elections. Clinton said they did not use CIA war patterns of action so they did not knowingly lie to voters to persuade them to vote for American favorites. "Due to the nature of our activities, it was much easier for us to penetrate Serbia than for people who did not hide their activities, so to speak. The involvement of the American intelligence community in the elections was substantial. Washington has used all the instruments of our national power to match the outcome of the election to the wishes of the United States. " That is how Douglas Wise , the then CIA operative in the Balkans, explained the operation to Foreign Affairs . image Slobodan Milosevic's torn poster Eric Cabanis / AFP Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) also played a role. The IRI (International Republican Institute), an NGO funded by the US government, has trained more than 15,000 activists on how to monitor polling stations. This was especially important in the September FRY presidential election. Activists counted the votes alongside civil servants. The first official results said that Milosevic was in a small lead ahead of Vojislav Kostunica, and then the observers came forward and announced that he had lost, cleanly. After that, the government tried to delegitimize Kostunica's victory by manipulation, which resulted in protests. At that time, Milosevic no longer had the strength to restrain the opposition and had to resign. And then in December, his Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) experienced an election debacle. And soon Milosevic will be extradited to The Hague. Secret and open The operatives are still very satisfied today. Wise said the United States had made a "big difference" and that the "combination" of covert and overt tactics had led to a "positive outcome." An additional confirmation, they say, is that most of the then leading Serbian oppositionists later confirmed that they would not have succeeded without their help. And that help included everything from advertising, through funding, to what the opposition would do during the campaign. Agents make no secret of their satisfaction: finally, how many times has a war criminal been overthrown in an election? image Graphite at Marko Milosevic's shop Eric Cabanis / AFP It is further confirmation that the authorities took seriously the threat and attempted murder of Vuk Draskovic , one of the then leaders of the opposition. Who was in the government of Slobodan Milosevic in the midst of the NATO intervention. In which Aleksandar Vučić was then and remained there until the end . As Minister of Information. John McLaughlin , deputy director of the CIA in 2000, confirmed the operation with the following words: "I'm familiar with this, but I can't talk about it," he told Shimer. Wise was much more open: "Something had to be done in the Balkans at the time, and interfering in the elections was the ultimate means justified by the goal: the genocidal maniac is no longer in power." All interlocutors claim that this was the last case of the CIA getting so involved in the elections. She also planned something like this in Iraq in 2005, but gave up. The decision was made by the then US Ambassador to Baghdad, John Negroponte . Among other things, there was no person like Milosevic against whom the campaign would be directed. And so the CIA's interference in the 2000 elections in Serbia was an "extraordinary" measure that reflected extraordinary circumstances, the Agency concluded. image Slobodan Milosevic just before his extradition to The Hague in 2001 Koca Sulejmanovic / AFP In the conversation with Shimer, everyone swears that the CIA no longer does such a thing. And regardless of Đuro Čvorović, they seem to be right: the Agency no longer influences the elections that way. “It’s not that such ideas don’t come up, but during the Obama administration they were rejected,” said Anthony Blinken , who has held a number of positions in the foreign policy and security apparatus in that government. And now he is the chief foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden . The CIA closely monitors political processes and uses new means. Which seem to be more sophisticated than the Russian ones. The influence of the Russian secret services in the elections was revealed in almost all cases, from the American ones in 2016 to the European ones last year. But the FSB and GRU are obviously no longer what they used to be: which confirms the recklessness in the attempt to liquidate former agent Sergei Skripalj