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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch83911 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-132610022  2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992









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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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                                       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
         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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