Portrait of a contemporary: Boža Spasić

15.January 2025 Jelena Zoric

The suffering of the “talking weasel”

The hero of this text was an intelligence officer of the former State Security Service of former Yugoslavia. He was allegedly hired by the UDBA to organize criminals to attack and kill problematic emigrants around the world. Serbian authorities arrested him twice, but he was never convicted. The foreigners never arrested him, but they did convict him - albeit in the first instance. For decades now, Spasić has been a frequent guest of the media where, as if on assignment, he criticizes the past and praises the current government. He worked as a detective, journalist and published two books. Precisely because of what he writes and says, Spasić caused more trouble for himself than any domestic or foreign enemy.

Security and politics

13.February 2024. Sasa Jankovic

Serbia in the clutches of the Service

Personnel who would not be allowed to approach the Service even on an open day, today they are bright and dressed with it. What used to be the stuff of their wet dreams is now a basic rule of thumb at work. Furthermore, the Service works smoothly because the external control mechanisms, which are supposed to monitor, react and prevent various types of abuses that can easily occur in every secret service in the world, thoroughly changed the blood and all internal organs, and they only have an external form of parliamentary control, Protector of citizens, courts and other supervisory bodies. The term "kidnapped state" is not an empty phrase, it has a real meaning and it doesn't always happen to someone else there