Word: franko
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...invaluable. They included Rade Markovic, once head of state security, now in a Belgrade prison facing murder charges: the threat of a long prison sentence might persuade him to rat on his old boss. Nice also interviewed Mihalj Kertes, former chief of the powerful customs service, and the notorious Franko "Frenki" Simatovic, the commander of the feared Red Berets, a police unit accused of spearheading ethnic cleansing from Croatia to Kosovo. Three men indicted with Milosevic - ex-Defense Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic, Serbia's former Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic and top adviser Nikola Sainovic - were also asked last week to give...
...When Franko Simatovic was first dispatched from his native Belgrade to Croatia in 1991, there was little to distinguish him from other young Yugoslav intelligence officers drafted into the early days of Serbia's war effort. Slobodan Milosevic was whipping up Serbian nationalism, and the rest of the world was only dimly aware of the simmering ethnic mix that was about to explode in Yugoslavia. Tall, with fair hair, fluent in English and several other languages, "Frenki" was noted for his calm, professorial manner--and a fondness for Raybans. His main accomplishment was having successfully spied on U.S. diplomats...