Ex-RDB chief's wife denies she has secret files

BELGRADE Rade Markovic was in 2001 put on trial for removing data discs with files on former leaders of the opposition from the RDB premises, Zoran Mijatovic says. Mijatovic spoke after the Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists said in a statement that former Department of State Security (RDB) chief Markovic made threats to publicize 15 files that would have "unforeseeable consequences for both him and the state." Ex-RDB chief's wife denies she has secret files Mijatovic, who served as deputy head of the RDB during the time Zoran Djindjic was prime minister, said that Markovic and three other state security officials faced trial before the Belgrade District Court, charged with scanning and burning data on three identical compact disc, containing 15 primary secret files on persons from the public, political and cultural life in Serbia. B92 TV's Insajder show reported about the removal and destruction of documents from the Department of State Security in the series "Manuscripts do not burn". The program obtained evidence that documents were being destroyed from October 2000 until January 2001, as Markovic continued to serve as head of the RDB during the four months. The weekly magazine Vreme in January 2002 reported that "it is certain that three identical CDs were burned at the State Security of the Serbian MUP, containing fifteen primary secret files on former opposition leaders, and people from the public and cultural life. Everything else is contentious." The article looks at what the court determined, and says that the files concern Vladan Batic, Nebojsa Covic, Vuk Obradovic, Srdja Popovic, Zoran Djindjic, Vesna Pesic, Vojislav Kostunica, Dragan Milovanovic, Dragoljub Markovic, Zarko Korac, Milan Protic, Milan Jovanovic, Ivan Marovic, Slobodan Homen, and Cedomir Jovanovic. The Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists specified in its statement on Tuesday that Markovic told one of its members that it was his wife who had the files in her possession, and that she "threatened to publish them." But Ivancica Markovic spoke for B92 on Wednesday to rejected the claims as false. "In the published news, you say that Radomir Markovic, in an informal conversation with a member of the commission - and after he refused to talk to them - said that he was sick of it all and that I 'had had enough' and will be moving to Zagreb, and publishing 15 undefined secret documents in all European newspapers, and somewhere else, while only I know where. These reports have nothing to do with the truth, my husband, and myself, and are published solely in order to use threats directed at me to persuade my husband to something that goes against his moral principles and the interests of this state. On the other hand, I, as a civilian, have never had any insight into the work of my husband, nor have I seen, let alone be in possession of, some kind of secret files,ˮ Ivancica Markovic said. (B92, file) B92

Ex-RDB chief's wife denies she has secret files

Mijatović, who served as deputy head of the RDB during the time Zoran Đinđić was prime minister, said that Marković and three other state security officials faced trial before the Belgrade District Court, charged with scanning and burning data on three identical compact disc, containing 15 primary secret files on persons from the public, political and cultural life in Serbia.

B92 TV's Insajder show reported about the removal and destruction of documents from the Department of State Security in the series "Manuscripts do not burn". The program obtained evidence that documents were being destroyed from October 2000 until January 2001, as Marković continued to serve as head of the RDB during the four months.

The weekly magazine Vreme in January 2002 reported that "it is certain that three identical CDs were burned at the State Security of the Serbian MUP, containing fifteen primary secret files on former opposition leaders, and people from the public and cultural life. Everything else is contentious."

The article looks at what the court determined, and says that the files concern Vladan Batić, Nebojša Čović, Vuk Obradović, Srđa Popović, Zoran Đinđić, Vesna Pešić, Vojislav Koštunica, Dragan Milovanović, Dragoljub Marković, Žarko Korać, Milan Protić, Milan Jovanović, Ivan Marović, Slobodan Homen, and Čedomir Jovanović.

The Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists specified in its statement on Tuesday that Marković told one of its members that it was his wife who had the files in her possession, and that she "threatened to publish them."

But Ivančica Marković spoke for B92 on Wednesday to rejected the claims as false.

"In the published news, you say that Radomir Marković, in an informal conversation with a member of the commission - and after he refused to talk to them - said that he was sick of it all and that I 'had had enough' and will be moving to Zagreb, and publishing 15 undefined secret documents in all European newspapers, and somewhere else, while only I know where. These reports have nothing to do with the truth, my husband, and myself, and are published solely in order to use threats directed at me to persuade my husband to something that goes against his moral principles and the interests of this state. On the other hand, I, as a civilian, have never had any insight into the work of my husband, nor have I seen, let alone be in possession of, some kind of secret files,ˮ Ivančica Marković said.