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THE PLAIN DEALER
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Cold War
spy was Nazi henchman
08/12/01
Bill Sloat
Plain Dealer Reporter
Cincinnati
- Their brief ritual seemed straight out of a James Bond novel.
The American, speaking first, would say in Latin, "Vincit qui se
vincit." (He conquers who conquers himself.)
The European man, code-named Dynamo, would reply, "Verbum pat
sapienti." (A word is enough for a wise man.)
Then they would match halves of a torn playing card, the nine of diamonds.
While this scene may have been common during the Cold War, Dynamo was no common
spy.
Documents unsealed in a case settled in Cincinnati federal court last week
reveal that the man called Dynamo was paid to spy for the U.S. government even
though intelligence reports showed that he was considered a Nazi war criminal
in Yugoslavia.
American spymasters also were willing to overlook that Dynamo - a Croatian
priest named Krunoslav Dragonovic - had been accused of using loot plundered
from Holocaust victims and others to buy new names and new lives for others
fleeing Europe, including the notorious Klaus Barbie.
U.S. intelligence agents even arranged, over objections by the State
Department, for Dragonovic to visit Cleveland, where newspaper reports show he
spoke at St. Paul Croatian Church in 1961 about the plight of Croatian refugees
in communist Yugoslavia.
These once-secret documents offer a rare glimpse into a murky, morally quirky
era.
SPY
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