Josip Boljkovac

Croatian Ex-Interior Minister and Spy Chief Dies

Published by Balkan Insight on Tue, 11/11/2014 - 15:41

Boljkovac died in hospital on Monday in Karlovac in central Croatia after being ill for several months.

He was born in Vukova Gorica near Karlovac in 1920 and was an active member of the anti-fascist movement in the area before World War II.

By the end of the war he had become the local chief of the Yugoslav secret service, OZNA, in Karlovac.