President Backs Agency on Espionage Arrests
Yugoslavia’s president sided with the military secret service on spy allegations, saying the agency has firm evidence that a Serbian official passed secret documents to a U.S. diplomat before both were arrested.
Yugoslav military officials arrested Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Momcilo Perisic and U.S. diplomat John David Neighbor last week in a restaurant in the capital, Belgrade.
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said that he military secret service had shown Yugoslav and Serbian leaders concrete evidence that Perisic passed the secrets to Neighbor. He refused to elaborate, citing an ongoing investigation.
“What we have seen was only a tip of the iceberg,” Kostunica said.
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