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Operation Matchbox and Ustasa - BeTheGoddess - 01-09-2024
We all know about Operation Paperclip, but the same thin happened in other nations under different names; I am here to introduce you to Operation Matchbox
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/261867395
Because Australia was viewed as some desolate 'shithole", the lowest common denominator of war criminals were sent to Australia.
Quote:The German scientists sent to Australia under a top secret Anglo-American project codenamed Operation Matchbox included SS and Nazi party members. The leading Nazi-hunting watchdog, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, yesterday demanded an investigation into the recruitments ordered by Britain and the US, and said Australia was a haven for "holocaust perpetrators and mass murderers".
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/aug/17/iantraynor
Not all the war criminals who came here were German, other terroirs groups also had to flee Europe after the war.
Quote:At the end of World War II in 1945, members of the fascist Croatian ultranationalist and genocidal Ustaše regime from the collapsed Nazi puppet state of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) fled from the Balkan region to avoid imprisonment and execution at the hands of the Yugoslav Partisans. With the help of Western authorities, who now viewed the fiercely anti-communist stance of the Ustaše favourably in the emerging Cold War, thousands of members of the regime were allowed to migrate to other countries, including Australia.[sup][8][/sup][sup][page needed][/sup]
And they were fully supported by the Australian government because "communism", the PTB in Australia were happy to turn the other cheek just in the name of fighting commies. Then the government changed..
Quote:The Murphy raids on the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) occurred on 16 March 1973. The purpose of the raids, instigated by Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, was to obtain terrorism-related information that the ASIO was accused of withholding.[sup][1][/sup]
The government had to raid its own domestic counter-terrorist apparatus,?
After the Murphy raids, the terrorists went back to their "home" cuntry and started a war...
Quote:The collapse of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s gave hope to many Croatian-Australians that a truly independent Croatian nation would be formed. It also gave the organisational ability of Ustaše ideologues in Australian society much increased impetus. Significant funding was raised by people such as Stjepan Kardum the leader of the Sydney Branch of the neo-Ustaše group called the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP). This money was funnelled into the formation of the HSP's ultra-nationalistic paramilitary units called the Croatian Defence Forces (Hrvatske obrambene snage or HOS) that fought in the Croatian War of Independence. These units operated separate from the control of the regular Armed Forces of Croatia and were involved in pillage, rape and mass killings of civilians at places like the Dretelj prison camp in southern Bosnia.[sup][8][/sup][sup][68][/sup]
I do have more to say on this, but its late and I'll drop some more on this tomorrow
