ZAGREB, March 25 (Hina) - The Counterintelligence Agency (POA) claims that it did not tap the phones of six journalists who lodged complaints with the Council for the Civilian Supervision of Security Services, council chairman Vlatko
Cvrtila said on Thursday.
ZAGREB, March 25 (Hina) - The Counterintelligence Agency (POA) claims
that it did not tap the phones of six journalists who lodged
complaints with the Council for the Civilian Supervision of Security
Services, council chairman Vlatko Cvrtila said on Thursday.#L#
POA claims in its report that not one journalist's telephone has been
wiretapped over the last 12 months or at present, Cvrtila said after a
session of the council which earlier this week asked the agency to
comment on the journalists' suspicions that their phones were bugged.
Cvrtila announced the council would conduct additional inquiries to
confirm the POA findings and report to the parliamentary committee on
internal affairs and national security.
This committee decided at today's session to consider a report on the
work of secret services in 2003 on Tuesday, when it might also address
the case of the aforementioned journalists.
Four of the six journalists complained to the Council for the Civilian
Supervision of Security Services after the media reported that former
POA head Franjo Turek provided the authorities with evidence that they
had collaborated with foreign secret services in spreading false
information about the movements of Croatian General Ante Gotovina, who
is wanted by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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