COUNCIL FOR CIVILIAN CONTROL OF SECRET SERVICES COLLECTING DATA ON OSTOJIC CASE

ZAGREB, May 6 (Hina) - The Council for the Civilian Control of Intelligence Agencies will not today discuss the case of a former police chief, Ranko Ostojiic, as it is still collecting all pertinent data in order to take a stand on the matter, the Council's chairman, Vlatko Cvrtila, said before the beginning of the Council's session on Thursday afternoon.#L# Cvrtila explained that the Council was checking all the elements of the case. Ostojic claims that a former chief of the Croatian Counter-Intelligence Agency (POA), Franjo Turek, had unlawfully ordered that Ostojic be monitored and that his telephones be bugged as Turek believed that Ostojic was an agent of the CIA. Cvrtila recently said that Ostojic had obtained information from POA, at his own request, that some measures were taken in his case, in compliance with a decision of the Supreme Court, and that those measures were discontinued in the meantime. Asked by reporters whether Ostojic had been monitored for being a CIA agent, Cvrtila said today that this was only speculation and that he had not seen such allegations in a report submitted by POA. (Hina)