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104-10326-10022 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (09/30/1997)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch78951 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-132610022  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
SECRET
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STAFF
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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S E C R E T
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
YEARS. 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 RSO AND COM.
3. FOLLOWING IS DRAWN FROM DIRECTOR 824658 DATED 17 FEB 4:
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   l
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. FwVMFT=THERE-F-TER-WORKED- S A PAINTER
AND JOINED A LOCAL ANTI -OMMNIST ORGANIZATION IN AUSTR-LA- {HE-
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