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The subject is known to the Immigration and Natur-alization Service as ANDRIJA ARTUKOVIC and is also known asAndrew Artukovich, Adreja Artukovio and Alois Anich.

RESIDENCE:

STUART BRIGGS, Manager, Surfside,Colony advisesthat ANDREW ARTUKOVICH resides in house number 6414 SurfaideColony, Surfside Colony, California. With him also resideshis wife, ANNA MARIA ARTUKOVIC, also known as Anna MariaArtukovich and his children KATARINA, AUREA and RADOSLAUARTUKOVICH.

EMPLOYMENT:

STUARARIGGS advised that ANDREW ARTUKOVICH isemployed by his brother, JOHN ARTUKOVICH in the firm knownaa4:101 and J. ARTUKOVICH, 13305 San Pedro Street, Los Angeles.

ACTIVITY:

STUART BRIGGS advised that the, subject is studyingEnglish and is endeavoring to perfect his command of the lan-guage. He advised additionally that the subject works everyday except Sunday and that on Sunday he takes his childrento Sunday School and spends the day otherwise with his family.JOHN ARTUKOVICH, brother of the subject, according to BRIGGS,just bought the subject and his family an automobile whichMrs. ARTUKOVICH drives. BRIGGS advised that the ARTUKOVICRfamily has little company except for his brother and that hehad been unable to observe any activity on the part of thesubject or his family that was in any way suspicious.

BACKGROUND AND LEGALITY OF RESIDENCE IN THE U.S.:

On May 3, 1949 Mr. FRANKLIN DAVIS, Officer in ChargeImmigration and Naturalization Service, Santa Ana, California,advised that he had just completed investigation concerning

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ALOIS ANICH, with alias Andrija Artukovic his wife ANNAMARIA ANICH, with alias Marla Artukovic and their threechildren KATARINA, AUREA and RADOSLAU. The children .ap-parently are also known by the names of Visnja MarijaArtukovic, Zorioa Doroteja Artukovio and Radoslau Artukovie.Further details concerning the names of the subject and ofthe individual members of his family are set forth below.

DAVIS advised that he was making the investigationbecause the subject and his family were presently in the UnitedStates under Immigration Bond and they had requested n Con- •gressionel Act to deolare themselves Displaced Persons inorder that they might permanently reside in the United States.

Mr. DAVIS , report reflects that this family of fivepersons was admitted at New York via plane on July 16, 1948under Seotinn 3(2) of the 1924 Act to October 15, 1948; sub-sequently their stay was exIended to April 17, 1949. Al]. areunder Bond of *SOO each. Re-..entry was made under the fic-titious names ALOIS ANICH, ANNA MARIA ABICH, KATARINA ANICR,AURHA ANICH and RADOSLAU ANICH. They entered with IrishCertificate of Identification issued in Dublin, Trcland in-stead of with proper Passports. The record of Admissionsas maintained by immigration and Naturalization Service re-flected that the male adult alien was destined to his sister-in-law LUCILLE ARTUKOVIC in Los Angeles, California and thatthe adult female alien was destined to her aistor, LUCILLEARTUKOVICH in Los Angeles. The children accompanied them.

DAVIS' report reflects that the adult aliens woreinterviewed by him on April 28, 1949 in his office, to deter-mine the circumatances surrounding their entry and thereasons for their use of fictitious names, as well as to •determine what they wore doing in this country, how main-tained, etc.

Mr. ARTUKOVIC, the subject, said that be was a:political refugee who had been forced to use another namein orderto get out of Europe. He claimed that ho had hadto travel on dolt:sante made up In Switiarland as he wasunable to get a Passport from his native country which is

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now in the hands of the Comzuniat PLrty which he opposed.ARTUKOVIC stated that he did not have the trava documentsin his possession at the time of intorview, as he had sentthorn book to Iroland for extension. He prosentod What W.VISbolieved to bo authentic identification for himsolf and hischildren all under the name of ARTUKOVIC.

ARTMCOVIC statod that he had been a practicingattorncy in his hemc town of Gospic, Croatia prior to WorldWar II and that he was ablo to retire from his professionin 1932 in order to study in proparation for a.Professorship.ARTUKOVIC statod that he bad traveled cxtensively in Europoand in Great Britain for a few yoars . until his arrest forpolitical activities at Belgrade, Serbia. Ho Claimed to haveboon in custody for fifteen days, tried and found not guiltyof such activities.

ARTUKOVIC allegedly wont to Berlin in about 1936to study. In Bc.rlin he was arrested by the Gestapo at thoroquest . of the YUgoslavian government. After a short termin camp, he fled from Yugoslavia and went to Budapest,Hungary where ho remained until the formation of the CroatianState in about 1941. He then returned to Croatia and becamoits Ministor of Intcrior, later Minister of Justice and final-ly the Prosidont of.the Statc Council being statiancd inZagreb until May 1945 When thc country collapsed and wasoverrun by Communists from surrounding countries and Russia.

Subject alleged that he fled to Austria, his wife'scountry, and from there to Switzorland. Ho later wont to.Iroland and from there, to tho United Statos. •RTUKOVICalloged that he and his family are Romanian Catholics andhave mover been Communists. He alleged his opposition tothat group.

ARTUKOVIC presented a letter signed by ReverendSTEPHERACrIpKOVIC DD of "Our. LadY_of the Sacred Heart 9fJesus R.C. ebUrch" Lackawanna,NeWyork"deted- MWiCh 23,I94:91;40d that Ibe had boon Secretary to(Arch-BishopiALCM TEPIRAC of Zagreb who is now in prison in Yugo-slavia. The 'otter continued that Reverand LACKOVIC per-sonally knew that ARTUKOVIO was very-active in carrying out tbewishes of Arch-Bishop STEPINAC.

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,ARTUKOVIC alleged to DAVIS that he was not angagodin any sort of activity but that he spends all his time road-ing and studying'tho English languago and other subjects.He explained that his brother JOHN M. ARTUKOVIC had let himand his family live in one of his houses and that tho bro-ther pays all expenses. Hc alleged that his brother is awell-to-do contractor, doig business with a cousin, PETERARTUKOVIC with offices at 13305 South San Pedro Street,Los Angeles.

Subjoct alleged that he had no means of his awn.DAVIS advised that questioning of the subject's wife vori-fled the statements made by subject. Sho doniod that shehad ever been associated with the Commmnists or any otherpolitical group.

DAVIS' report concluded that ARTUKOVIC was Ministerof Interior, later Minister of Justice in the government sotup at Zagreb, Croatia in the spring of 1941 and before theend of that government, was President of the Stato Council.

His report continuod that from such historiesas Were locally available, it would appear that the Croatiangovernment was one of the Axis dominated govornmonts set upafter tho Germans overran that arc a• It was the governmentheaded by ANTEVOLIC,.an Anti-Communist but pro-Nazi dic-tator.

The 1940 Croatia Almanac listed one Doctor ANDRIJAARTUHOVIC of Svicarska as a member of the Secrotariat ofthe Organization "Croatian National Representation for theIndependence of Croatia". This individual is believod iden-tical with the subject.

Confidential Informant SD T-1, another governmentagency conducting intelligonce investigations, submittedinformation from Italy in 1943, the source of the Informant'sinformation and the reliability of it is unknown. The infor-mation is that ANDRIJA ARTUKOVIC (believed identical withsubject), comas from Dalmatia. Ho is a Croat lawyer, wholeft the country in 1932 and became one of PAVELIC's mostactive collaborators in the work of terrorism organized byItaly against Yugoslavia. Ho was deeply involved in the

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Marseilles assassination. ARTUKOVIC was arrested by theFrench police and handed over to the Yugoslavian authoritiesby Whom- he was eventually released. He fled to Berlin wherehe was, arrested with one JELIC and another individual inJuly 1937 but was released under supervision.

When the headquarters of the Ustasi moved to Berlinin 1937 ARTUKOVIC took charge. He joined PAVELIC in 1941and became Minister of the Interior in PAVELIC i e puppet gov-ernment.

. The information continued that ARTUKOVIC was regardedby those who knew him as a "desquilibre". • he JELIC referredto is believed to be BRAN/MIER DROZOEVIC IC, Who also usedthe alias ANDRIJA ARTUKOVIC.

Confidential Informant T-2, of known reliability,furnished information from an undisclosed source of unknownreliability, that JELIC was in the United States in 1939 dur-ing which time he appeared to be active on the part of themovement for the independence of Croatia. At a hearing be-fore a Special Board of Inquiry on February 20, 1939 whichwas held with reference to JELIC I s stay in the United Stateshe admitted using the name of ANDRIJA ARTUKOVIC in order toallow an individual of that name to obtain credentials foradmission to the United states.

Confidential Informant T-2 furnished informationfrom an undisclosed source of unknown reliability that oneWAN ARTUKOVIC In Los Angeles had a brother by the name ofANDREW ARTUKOVICH, who was a lawyer in Hungary, who was try-ing to came to the United States to take-over the work ofDoctor XELIC when JELIC returned to Europe.. This was appar-ently in conneetion with the organization known as HrvatskiDomobran which was indicated to have been formed by XELIC'in 1.931 and was a Croatian organization. JELIC reportedlyleft South America in 1 934 for the United States in orderto organize Croatian Separatists movement here.

Confidential Informant T-2 advised that the HrvatekiDomobran was organized in New York City in 1934,1935 on anation-wide scale in an effort to unite the Croatians in theUnited States behind one Dootor ANTE PAVELICH and his move-

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ment to establish an independent State of Croatia. Infor-mation available to Confidential- Informaz.; T-2 indicatedthat considerab3e activity was conducted in the United Statesby the Damobran in that direction. Following the invasion ofYugoslavia by Germany in April 1941, PAVELICH was set up asDictator of Croatia under the protection of Axis powers. TheHrvatski Damobran was astinsibly disbanded in June 1941, itbeing claimed that the purpose for which it was originallyorganized, had been realized.

On February 6, 1942 the records of KARIAEROMPOTICHof Forest Hills, Penns 1 ania were made available to theFBI by his wife, HLENOMPOTICB. She stated that herhusband KARLO, was for many years Treasurer of ttlarvatakiDomobran which she stated was an organization,fOrmthi-PUrpose of collecting money in the United States.to be

defez■se of Creatian patriots accused of having mm'-dared King ALEXANDER of Yugoslavia. Her husband wasTreas-urer as long as the collection of funds was carried on.

The reoords of KARLO KROMPOTICH consisted of cor-respondenoe received by him from 1935 to 1940 from personsin the United States and abroad who made contributions to afund administered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a committeeknown as the Croatian National Committee or the CroatianNational Representation for the Independence of Croatia.The records reflected that this organization sent funds toDoctor ANDRIJA AMIUKOVIC at Budapest and in Paris in 1936and 1937 in the total amount of 1425.00. On May 17, 1940$5o.00 was sent to ARTUKOVIC.

Confidential Informant T-1 advised that it hadreceived information from an undisclosed source of unknownreliability that as of October 1942 ANDRIJA ARTVINDVIC wasMinister of Justice mad Religion in the reconstructed gov-ernment. As of May 1943 it was indicated that he was Mini-ster for the Interior. Confidential Informant T-3, anothergovernment agency conducting intelligence investigations,advised on May 11, 1943 that it had determined from an un-disclosed =lures of unknown reliability, that Doctor ANDRI1AAHTUEDVIO was one of the Secretaries of the Croatian NationalRepresentation and head of the "Croatian Gestapo".

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It was further stated therein that Doctor ANDRIJAARTUKOVIC among others, was sent to the United States in1930 for the purpose of collecting funds (apparently for thisorganization). It also stated that JOHN M. ARTUKOVIC (appar-ently the brother of subject) was interviewed on August 6,1942. He stated that he was a member of the Domobran Ustasheand was President thereof in 1938,1939 and 1940 (this appar-ently refers to the organization in Los Angeles).

It was stated by T-3 that Doctor ANDRIJA ARTUKOVIC"Head of the Croatian Gestapo" was his brother but that hehad not heard from him since 1939.

IVAN METKOVICH was interviewed by Confidential In-formant SD T-3 in 1942. METKOVICH was Secretary of the LosAngeles Branch of the Domobran. He stated that JOHN A.ARTUKOVIC transmitted money to his father to defend DoctorANDRIJA ARTUKOVIC in Yugoslavia.

ANDRITA ARTUKOVIC was stated to have been in LondonWhen King ALEXANDER of Yugoslavia was assassinated. Englandturned subject over tá Franco which country, in turn, gavehim to Yugoslavia because it was believed that he had a handin the assassination. METKOVICH stated or informed toConfidential Informant T-3 that ANDRIJA ARTUKOVIC at thattime was the head of PAVELIC t s Gestapo.

Confidential Informant T-4, of known reliability,advised that JOHN A. ARTUKOVIC of Los Angeles Californiais an uncle of the subject and that JOHN M. AkTuKOVIC is hisbrother. According to this Informant, JOHN M. ARTUKOVICwas the President of the Hrvatski Domobran in the Los Angelesarea.

In 1944 Confidential Informant SD T-5, of knownreliability, advised that the Domobran first flourishedin the early thirties When through PAVELIC it first becamean organized party for the independence of Croatia. Thissource stated that the ARTUKOVIC family were among the mostardent supporters of the organization due to their intensehatred for the Serbs. This source stated that early in thethirties, JOHN A. ARTUKOVIC and JOHN M. ARTUKOVIC visitedEurope where they mat the subject who at that time reported-ly was a member of PAVELIC t s cabinet in the puppet government

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of Croatia. This source stated that it was his belief thatthe subject inspired his uncle and brother to return to thiscountry to foster the Damobran.

Confidential Informant T-1 advised in 1946 thatit had received information from an unidentified source ofunknown reliability that ANDRIJA ARTUKOVIC was Minister ofthe Interior in the Independert Puppet State of Croatiaunder the leadership of POGLAVNIK ANTE PAVELIC. ARTUKOVICwas "Keeper of the Seal" and was last known to the sourceavailable to Confidential Informant T-1, to be in the Britishzone of occupation in Austria.

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