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1995, 3 August
Report of the Security Department of the 15th Corps Command to the Security
Department of the SVK General Staff on the increased pressure of Croatian forces
which hampers the deployment of fresh forces for the Grahovo operation, and on the
daily exodus of non-combatant population to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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To the
General Staff of the Serbian Army of Krajina
- Security Department
1. Hostile activity
Our deep tactical reconnaissance units have detected, along the entire line of
disengagement with the 15 th Corps, intensive HV motor vehicle traffi c from the rear,
primarily during the night. More intensive traffi c and the approach of motor vehicles
to our border have been recorded from Gospić towards the line of disengagement with
the 9 th , 18 th and 70 th infantry brigades (towards Medak, Teslingrad and Plaški). Th e
number of newly-arrived HV vehicles is not matched by corresponding manpower and
equipment fi gures, and we have therefore estimated that they are concurrently engaged
in deception and demonstration in terms of bringing in new troops in order to force us
to commit our units along the border and keep them in a state of readiness, and prevent
us from committing fresh forces to the Grahovo operation.
(...)
We have also confi rmed information that the HV is mobilizing in Gospić, Perušić,
Otočac, Brinje, Josipdol, Ogulin and other places, and keeping troops in readiness in the
staging areas.
We have no coordinates for the elements of the HV order of battle opposite the zone
of the 15 th Corps, and this can have negative implications for the units and for the
local population in our zone. If you have the exact coordinates of the HV fi re support
positions, we urge their urgent delivery in order to complete our defence system and
prepare the initial data tables for counter-fi re or preemptive strikes for the elimination
of HV fi re capabilities early during the attack.
We have also recorded the completion of the HV fi re system, primarily in engineering
terms, and the extensive use of engineering machinery.
On 2 August 1995 a pilotless aircraft overfl ew the zone of defence of the 18 th infantry
brigade (Bunić) and Teslingrad at the altitude of about two thousand metres. Croatian
MIG-211 aircraft also overfl ew Gospić.
Th e scouts of our units have not detected any hostile presence or activity on Mount
Velebit from Sveto Brdo to Visočica.