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104-10326-10022 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (9/30/1997)

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        CONF: CE/BOGYA        INFO: CE/BOGB, CEDORECORD, DCCE/BA, LIMITED, MDSX,
        ODPD, RYBAT, FILE, C/CE, CE/BOG, CE/BOGBT, CE/BOGIS, CED/CIC (7/P)
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        97 9265318    ASP                  PAGE 001
                                      TOT: 301610Z SEP 97       DIRECTOR 522218
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        STAFF                             301610Z DIRECTOR 522218
        TO:   PRIORITY

        FROM:   LIMITED DISSEM CE/BOGYA INFO CE/BOGIS, CE/BOG, CED/CIC,
        DCCE/BA

        SLUGS:   WNINTEL RYBAT

        SUBJECT:   TRACE RESPONSE -- NIKOLA KAVAJA

        REF:            20520  97 9106046

        TEXT:

              1.  ACTION REQUIRED: NONE,  FYI ONLY.

              2-  PER REF, HQS HAS CONFIRMED THAT NIKOLA ((KAVAJA)) IS THE
         SUBJECT OF 201-0764698.  PROVIDED BELOW ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE
         EXTENSIVE NVTAG SOURCE REPORTING COMPILED ON KAVAJA OVER THE
         IYEARS. BASED ON OUR REVIEW, THERE ARE NO INDICATIONS THAT KAVAJA
         HAS EVER BEEN IN CONTACT WITH TQHIGHROAD.  PER PARA 5 REF, BELOW
         NFORMATION  CAN BE SHARED WITH THE PSO AND COM.

              3.  FOLLOWING IS DRAWN FROM DIRECTOR 824658 DATED 17 FEB 84:

                A.  NIKOLA ((KAVAJA)) WAS BORN 3 OCTOBER 1933 IN ISTINIC,
         YUGOSLAVIA. -AFTER HIGH SCHOOL HE GRADUATED FROM THE YUGOSLAV
         MILITARY ACADEMY.  BETWEEN 1947 AND 1952, HE SERVED AS A FIGHTER
         PILOT WITH THE YUGOSLAV AIR FORCE, HOLDING THE RANK OF FIRST
         LIEUTENANT.  IN THE COURSE OF THIS SERVICE HE BECAME DISENCHANTED
         WITH THE COMMUNIST REGIME AND WAS COURT-MARTIALED.  HE WAS ACCUSED
         OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SECRET ANTI-COMMUNIST, TERRORIST
         ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO OVERTHROWING THE COMMUNIST REGIME OF
         -YUGOSLAVIA, AND WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH THE<ASSASSINATION>OF THREE
         BORDER GUARDS (KAVAJA DENIED BEING GUILTY OF THIS CHARGE).  HE WAS
         FOUND GUILTY AND SENTENCED TO EIGHTEEN AND ONE-HALF YEARS OF
         IMPRISONMENT.

                B.  ON 15 AUG 57, KAVAJA ESCAPED FROM PRISON WITH ANOTHER
         YUGOSLAV.  THE TWO MEN CROSSED INTO AUSTRIA ON 21 AUGUST 57 AT
         DOLJNA RADONJA.  THEY PROCEEDED TO SALZBURG AND TURNED THEMSELVES
         IN TO THE POLICE.  AFTER SPENDING 21 DAYS IN JAIL THEY WERE
         GRANTED POLITICAL ASYLUM.p-WAY  ARTHERENT-ER-WORKED AS A PAINTER
         AND JOINED A LOCAL ANTI -GOMMiNIST CRCGANIZATION IN AUSTR-hAI.{E
                           SSESC RET

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