The head of the Croatian Journalists' Association, Dragutin Lucic, on Tuesday confirmed that Puljic had sent the letter with the request to the Council on 15 October.
"Helena Puljic acquainted me with the case and asked me to give no more details in public. Therefore I would not comment on the matter until the Council takes a position," Lucic told Hina.
He only added that after informing the Council of the matter in writing, the reporter also notified it verbally.
Lucic said that in principle every interference of secret services in journalists' work deserves condemnation, and that it is something unacceptable in a law-based state.
The reporter wrote in her letter to Vlatko Cvrtila, the chairman of this council, which is a body appointed by the parliament, that on 5 October this year a POA agent, introducing himself as an employee of the Interior Ministry's organised crime department, phoned her and asked her to have a chat in a cafe.
The agent arrived in the cafe, accompanied with another colleague, and both showed her their POA identity papers.
According to her letter to Cvrtilia, both agents said they would like to talk about Mesic's former aide, Zeljko Bagic, who left the post in the Office of the President as he is believed to have helped the runaway general Ante Gotovina, and her work while she wrote for the Jutarnji List daily, when she covered President Mesic's work.
After that they asked her to continue the conversation in the POA main offices, where the talks turned into a five-hour-long interrogation, she wrote in the letter.
She also asserted that during the interrogation she was exposed to attempts of blackmailing and that some questions referred to her private life. She was also offered to cooperate with POA.
Therefore, Puljiz asked the said council to establish whether some measures of secret monitoring of her and her private life had been taken.
Neither the council's chairman, Cvrtila, nor Puljiz were available for any comment today.
The Nacional weekly also ran an article on Puljiz's interrogation in its latest issue. The weekly claims that she was interrogated about data which might discredit President Mesic during the coming presidential race.
The government's spokesman, Ratko Macek, told Croatian radio on Tuesday that allegations in the weekly were not true.