ZAGREB, March 30 (Hina) - The parliamentary committee on internal affairs and national security on Tuesday took note of reports on the performance of the counterintelligence, intelligence and military-security agencies in 2003, and
voiced several objections.
ZAGREB, March 30 (Hina) - The parliamentary committee on internal
affairs and national security on Tuesday took note of reports on the
performance of the counterintelligence, intelligence and
military-security agencies in 2003, and voiced several objections.#L#
Committee chairman Ivan Jarnjak briefed reporters about the
conclusions of today's session, among which is one calling for the
urgent organisation of intelligence personnel training. The basic
training would be conducted in Croatia while specialisation would take
place abroad.
The committee endorsed the demand of Pero Kovacevic of the Croatian
Party of Rights to ask the interior ministry to submit a report on the
so-called Ostojic team. The demand comes in the wake of former police
chief Ranko Ostojic's recent statement that he set up a special police
team within the interior ministry to combat organised crime because he
did not trust the security services.
Jarnjak announced that the committee would convene on Thursday to
consider a report by the Council for the Civil Supervision of Security
Services on the alleged tapping of several journalists' phones in 2003
by the Counterintelligence Agency. The agency refuted the allegations
last week.
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