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at the Forward Command Post of the Supreme Command of the SVK, with Martić, Stanišić,
SVK General Čeleketić, Fikret Abdić and several of Abdić’s officers. 3994 He was to give
Abdić 6,000 rifles and launch an offensive towards Bihać, but he declined because he was not
authorized to negotiate with Martić or Abdić. 3995 The Trial Chamber will now move to the
evidence in relation to the establishment of the Command for Operation Pauk.
1959. According to a 31 December 1994 entry in the Pauk Command Operations Logbook,
the Commander of the Pauk Operation Group visited the Supreme Command in Velika
Kladuša. 3996
1960. On or around 6 January 1995, Colonel Rade Rašeta of the SVK Main Staff received a
communication, which stated that on 9 November 1994, the chief and members of the
Security Department and members of the SVK Main Staff had gone to the Forward Command
Post of the SVK Main Staff, located in Korenica, Croatia. It also stated that on the following
day, 10 November 1994, Colonel Smiljanić informed Rašeta that a parallel Forward
Command Post was being set up in the Kordun area of Croatia, at which were Mile
Novaković, Colonel Čedo Bulat (retired) as Chief of Staff, Mihajlo Knežević as the Security
and Intelligence organ, Jovica Stanišić representing the Republic of Serbia, and members of
the MUP. Smiljanić told Rašeta that Stanišić had informed him that he, Smiljanić was to
transfer to Kordun for the Operation Pauk campaign, but that he had refused. Smiljanić
expressed concern that the formation of the parallel Command in Kordun meant the taking
over of the SVK Main Staff functions from the commandant and his adjutants. He also stated
that Stanišić claimed that Slobodan Milošević stood behind everything Stanišić said. On 13
November 1994, Martić, who had arrived the previous day, convened a meeting with the
leaders of Operation Pauk, including Novaković and Stanišić, and informed everyone that the
Forward Command Post of the SVK was in Korenica. Although Stanišić and Novaković
agreed to this, the daily reports of the security and intelligence organ in their command that
they sent to the Korenica Forward Command Post were “superficial, generalised, and in some
things confusing”. Smiljanić further told Rašeta that on 10 December he had been in Belgrade
with Gledić and Šuput, and that Stanišić had told Smiljanić that if everything was all right, he
3994 Manojlo Milovanović, T. 4540-4541, 4624-4625.
3995 Manojlo Milovanović, T. 4541-4542, 4625.
3996 P235 (Pauk Command Operations Logbook, 16 November 1994-25 May 1995), p. 55.
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