Tribunal Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

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1 Thursday, 22 March 2001

2 [Open session]

3 --- Upon commencing at 9.37 a.m.

4 [The accused entered court]

5 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Good morning, ladies and

6 gentlemen; good morning to the technical booth; good morning,

7 interpreters, registry staff, counsel for the Prosecution and the Defence;

8 good morning, General Krstic.

9 Before we resume, if I remember well, our next witness is

10 Ms. Frease who should testify. We wish to tell the parties that the

11 Judges have decided to authorise the Prosecutor to call an investigator to

12 testify on the statements made in his presence by the person that you know

13 and whose name I will not mention. This decision is without any prejudice

14 to the final ruling that the Judges will render regarding the admission of

15 the statements in question.

16 The Judges expect the Prosecutor to provide all useful information

17 regarding the actual presence of that investigator and the conditions

18 under which the statements of the person concerned were taken. The Judges

19 also require that the Prosecutor provide them, before calling the

20 investigator, the written transcripts of those statements, whatever the

21 form may be, and also that the Prosecutor have available the recordings of

22 those statements, if any exist, so that the Chamber and the parties in the

23 courtroom, that is, the Defence, may hear the parties regarding that

24 recording.

25 So the procedure will be that the witness will be in the

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1 courtroom, he will take the solemn declaration, we will hear the parties,

2 upon which we will begin with the examination-in-chief and the

3 cross-examination of that witness. That is the position of the Chamber.

4 I see Mr. Visnjic on his feet.

5 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, I should like to

6 provide an explanation in connection with a statement we made yesterday,

7 so I would request that we go into private session briefly.

8 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Yes. Let us go into private

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19 [Open session]

20 [The witness entered court]

21 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Good morning, Ms. Stefanie

22 Frease. Can you hear me?

23 THE WITNESS: Yes.

24 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] You are now going to read the

25 solemn declaration given to you by the usher.

Page 8924

1 THE WITNESS: Do I need to raise my hand?

2 JUDGE RODRIGUES: Not necessary.

3 WITNESS: STEFANIE FREASE

4 THE WITNESS: I solemnly declare that I will speak the truth, the

5 whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

6 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Please be seated. Try and sit

7 as comfortably as possible. I think you're used to being in a courtroom.

8 You will now be answering questions put to you by Mr. Harmon, and then

9 questions from the Defence counsel, and finally the Judges.

10 Mr. Harmon, your witness.

11 And thank you, Witness, for coming.

12 Examined by Mr. Harmon:

13 Q. Good morning, Ms. Frease. Could you state your full name and

14 spell your last name for the record.

15 A. Yes. Stefanie May Frease, F-r-e-a-s-e.

16 Q. Can you tell us your educational background?

17 A. I have a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and a

18 master's degree from Columbia University, both in international affairs.

19 Q. Have you ever given sworn testimony in a court of law?

20 A. No, I haven't.

21 Q. Now, were you employed by the Office of the Prosecutor?

22 A. Yes, I was.

23 Q. When were you employed by the Office of the Prosecutor?

24 A. I began working for the OTP April 26th, 1995, and worked for the

25 OTP through July of 2000. I was then on a leave of absence and officially

Page 8925

1 terminated my work with the Tribunal in December of 2000.

2 Q. When you came to work for the Office of the Prosecutor, were you

3 assigned to work on the Srebrenica investigation?

4 A. Yes. It was roughly, I guess, three or four months after I

5 arrived that I first became involved in the investigation.

6 Q. In what capacity?

7 A. Initially I was a part of a team that conducted an assessment

8 mission to Bosnia, for about four weeks, and then I was formally assigned

9 to the team in January of 1996.

10 Q. Do you have an understanding of the B/C/S language?

11 A. Yes, I do.

12 Q. How would you rate your proficiency?

13 A. I would say that I'm highly proficient in the language.

14 Q. Reading, writing, and speaking?

15 A. Yes.

16 Q. Now, at some point in time while you were a member of the team

17 investigating the events in Srebrenica, did the Office of the Prosecutor

18 acquire a large amount of data relating to radio intercepted

19 communications?

20 A. Yes, it did.

21 Q. And for want of a better term, were you involved in what came to

22 be known as the Intercept Project?

23 A. Yes, I was.

24 Q. Now, could you tell the Judges what the Intercept Project was?

25 A. The Intercept Project involved collecting material, assembling the

Page 8926

1 material, and then beginning a process of analysis.

2 Q. Now, was the -- did the material come to the Office of the

3 Prosecutor in the English language?

4 A. No, it didn't. It was all in the B/C/S language.

5 Q. Was there a large volume of this material?

6 A. Yes, and the volume increased over time.

7 Q. Could you describe to the Trial Chamber your work in the Intercept

8 Project, starting first of all with what your role was in it.

9 A. I was -- when we received the first material in, I believe it was

10 March 1998, we received printouts, and after receiving that material I put

11 together a small group of people to begin to go through the material and

12 translate it. After that we began to enter the data into a very simple

13 database, and after that we began to work on -- after we acquired the

14 notebooks, then we began to enter the material from the notebooks also

15 into this fairly simple database at that time and looked to

16 cross-reference the material that we had received in written format with

17 the material that we received in the notebooks. Then, of course, that

18 also expanded to the tapes. So it was a constant process of

19 cross-referencing all of the material that we received from -- first from

20 the army of Bosnia-Herzegovina and then from the State Security Services

21 of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

22 Q. Now, did you continue to work on analysing the intercepted radio

23 communication material until you left the Office of the Prosecutor?

24 A. Yes, I did. I worked on it almost non-stop from March 1998 to

25 early July 2000. There were a few months in there where I was assigned to

Page 8927

1 other projects, but I always also kept abreast of what was going on in the

2 project.

3 Q. Now, in the project, were you assisted by others?

4 A. Yes.

5 Q. Without naming the others, unless you're asked by either the Trial

6 Chamber or Defence counsel, could you just describe what functions the

7 other people had?

8 A. Sure. Initially, we worked with a small group. When we first

9 received the printed material we worked with a small group of translators

10 in the field, primarily, and then just to get a handle on what the

11 information contained so that it could be shared with the team. Then when

12 we started -- when we formed a very small group of people to work on this

13 in-house, they -- I was assisted by language, people with language skills,

14 only people who had language skills in the area, so interpreters and

15 language assistants.

16 Q. Were you also at times assisted by the investigators themselves in

17 attempting to locate persons or items that you deemed were important in

18 continuing with your project?

19 A. Absolutely.

20 Q. Now, just to give the Judges a sense of dealing with this

21 material, is it something that is requested be analysed very quickly and

22 turned around or is it slow, laborious, time-consuming process? Can I get

23 your comments and your views on that particular issue?

24 A. It was a much more laborious process than I think we had

25 anticipated, and it was more laborious and took, really, quite a lot of

Page 8928

1 time because of the various sources of the information, those being the

2 printed material that we were first provided, then cross-referencing the

3 printed material with the notebooks, and then working eventually with the

4 tapes, so -- and simultaneously working on translations and also on

5 developing a database which would allow us to conduct searches speedily so

6 that we could make connections between conversations.

7 I should mention that that was also another very big part of this

8 project and something that required a lot of time and a lot of knowledge

9 of the material, because we quickly started -- could begin -- we quickly

10 started to see connections between various conversations, that we were --

11 that we weren't just dealing with one conversation, that we were getting

12 two or three -- two or three conversations that were the same but that had

13 been recorded by different operators.

14 Q. Now, was one of your objectives in conducting the intercept

15 project an attempt to determine whether this material was reliable and

16 whether it was genuine?

17 A. Yes, it was.

18 Q. In pursuing that objective, did you, among other things, attempt

19 to locate, identify, and interview the intercept operators who allegedly

20 had intercepted these communications?

21 A. Yes, that came about a year into the project.

22 Q. After some initial analysis, I take it, had been done?

23 A. That's right.

24 Q. Now, was there an attempt by you and the other people involved in

25 the project to attempt to corroborate the contents of these intercepted

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1 communications?

2 A. Yes.

3 Q. And in conducting your analysis and in attempting to determine

4 whether these were genuine and reliable, could you tell the Judges what

5 factors you considered in assessing the reliability of the material that

6 you had received and were analysing?

7 A. Uh-huh. First we looked for internal consistency among the

8 documents that we had been -- what we had received from the army and the

9 police. And what I mean by "internal consistency" is that the printouts

10 that we received matched verbatim with the notebooks that we received. So

11 that was -- that was one part. That was sort of the preliminary part of

12 testing the internal consistency. But also having a knowledge of the case

13 more broadly, it was possible to know and to ascertain that what was

14 contained within the intercepts was consistent with what we knew about the

15 case.

16 Q. Did you, for example, attempt to analyse materials that had come,

17 that had been intercepted, from two different locations, Konjuh and

18 Okresanica, to determine if at or about the same time a similar

19 conversation had been intercepted?

20 A. Yes.

21 Q. Was that factor what led you believe that these were reliable?

22 A. Yes. It certainly contributed greatly to the reliability when we

23 learned that there were these two different sites and when we started to

24 find examples of the same conversation. It wasn't immediately clear to us

25 why we were finding similar conversations or really the same conversation

Page 8930

1 with slight variations, and then understanding that there were two

2 different sites and different units working, that contributed greatly to

3 the sense that these were genuine.

4 Q. Did you also receive radio intercepted communication data from

5 different sources, the army and the SDB?

6 A. Yes.

7 Q. Did you make a comparison of those two bodies of information? In

8 other words, did you compare the intercepts of the SDB against the

9 intercepts of the army in order to attempt to determine whether similar

10 conversations were captured at the same time?

11 A. Yes. Yes. We also did that kind of comparison. We -- really,

12 what we used as the bases were the individual conversations. From those

13 individual conversations, then we would cross-reference them with all of

14 the other material. So all of the material that came from the Konjuh

15 site, all of the material that came from the Okresanica site and all of

16 the material that came from the police and created a database that allowed

17 us to cross-reference all of these sources.

18 Q. So that was a factor, I take it, when you found -- was that a

19 factor -- strike that.

20 Were your findings in relation to the consistencies between the

21 two separate sources of intercept material a factor that led you to

22 believe these were reliable?

23 A. Yes.

24 Q. Now, as a part of the exercise to determine whether or not these

25 intercepts were reliable, did you then have interviewed the various

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1 intercept operators who had been identified?

2 A. Yes.

3 Q. Did you personally interview some of those operators?

4 A. Yes.

5 Q. And based on what they had informed you about, did that contribute

6 at all to your analysis of whether these materials were genuine and

7 reliable?

8 A. Yes, it did. It did very much, because we had an opportunity to

9 ask them about the process and to understand the process that they used in

10 intercepting the material.

11 Q. Now, as an additional measure of testing, I should say, these

12 materials, did you at some point in time take a selection, small selection

13 of these documents and attempt to verify the documents through third-party

14 information, independent-party information?

15 A. Yes.

16 Q. Could you explain to the Judges what that project entailed?

17 A. Yes. While we were in the process of analysing the intercepts,

18 when we came across information that appeared to be -- that appear as if

19 we could corroborate it independently, we put that information aside. We

20 would make a separate photocopy and put it in a folder. Some of it was --

21 and then having worked on this material for quite a period of time, one

22 does become quite familiar with it, and then when you see new information,

23 other documents or aerial images or whatever, it was possible to go back

24 to that folder and to try to link things up independently from third

25 sources.

Page 8932

1 Q. And when you say "third sources," what sources are you talking

2 about?

3 A. I'm talking about documents, for example, that were seized from

4 the VRS, documents that were received from the RS Ministry of Defence,

5 documents -- notes that were taken by third parties, by UNPROFOR officers,

6 aerial imagery, phone numbers.

7 Q. All right.

8 MR. HARMON: Could the witness please be provided with

9 Prosecutor's Exhibit 863, which is a binder.

10 Q. Ms. Frease, did you prepare Prosecutor's Exhibit 863?

11 A. Yes, I did.

12 Q. Was this exhibit or the materials that are contained in this

13 exhibit collected during the time you were analysing these intercepts?

14 A. Yes, that's right.

15 Q. Okay. Now, could you take Prosecutor's Exhibit 863, which should

16 be before you, and could you describe to the Judges and to counsel the

17 contents of this binder in general terms? Give them an orientation of

18 what's in this binder.

19 A. Sure. The first page is an outline of the contents of the

20 material. You'll see that there are 12 tabs. Each tab contains two

21 summaries. The first summary contains -- the first is a summary of one or

22 more intercepted conversations, and the second summary summarises the

23 material that corroborates the intercept or intercepts that are contained

24 in that tab.

25 Q. Now, does this represent the totality of your work in this area or

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1 is this only a small sample of the documents, the intercepts, that you

2 applied this process to?

3 A. That is a sample.

4 Q. All right. Could you kindly turn then to tab 1, to the first page

5 in tab 1. Is that the summary of the intercepted telephone communication

6 or communications that will be analysed against independent third-party

7 information?

8 A. Yes.

9 Q. Let's take tab 1, and let's turn to the next page. There should

10 be a summary, I'm sorry, an intercept dated the 11th of July, 1995.

11 A. Right.

12 Q. Could you explain to the Judges then this process that you went

13 through using this intercept as an example.

14 A. Sure.

15 Q. And tell the Judges, please, what these colours mean and the

16 numbers mean and the like.

17 A. Sure. Well, there are four features, I guess, of this intercept

18 and of the corroborating material, and those are the date, the time, the

19 parties who are conversing, and then 12 highlighted points in this

20 conversation.

21 I would like to turn to the corroborating material.

22 Q. That's fine. So the date is the 11th of July at 1800 hours, and

23 this is a conversation between General Gvero and General Gobillard.

24 A. That's correct.

25 Q. This represents the substance of that conversation.

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1 A. That's correct.

2 Q. Would you turn then to the corroborating material.

3 A. Uh-huh.

4 Q. That's found after your summary; is that correct?

5 A. That's correct. I think it would be helpful, I mean, if it's

6 possible to look at both at the same time. I've taken the intercept out

7 of the binder to do this, but in the corroborating material, the same four

8 features are important, namely, the date, the time, the parties, and then

9 12 additional highlighted points.

10 So in both conversations, both conversations are dated the 11th of

11 July, 1995. The intercepted conversation was recorded at 1800 hours. The

12 corroborating material notes a time of 1810, and the two people conversing

13 are General Gvero and General Gobillard.

14 With regard to the corroborating material, I should say that these

15 are notes that were taken by General Gobillard's military assistant, a

16 Major Fortin. You will see his name at the bottom of the second page.

17 These were contemporaneous notes that he recorded from the UNPROFOR side

18 at the same time that this conversation was taking place.

19 So if we could just look at point 2, perhaps, and the highlighted

20 section of point 2. I might just read through point 2 and point 3 and

21 then the remaining, I guess, ten points are very similar in their

22 content.

23 So looking at OTP Exhibit 350/A, which is the intercepted

24 conversation, point 2 says: "It is now clear to me that General Gobillard

25 gave the order for the shelling of the Serb positions. And that he still

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1 has those planes at his disposal, and it is his decision whether they will

2 be used again."

3 Point 2 on the corroborating material of Major Fortin's notes

4 say: "General Gvero's first reaction was that it was now clear that it

5 was General Gobillard who had called for the air power, who still had the

6 aircraft at his disposal and who could still call for them."

7 Point 3 of the intercepted material, OTP Exhibit 350/A, says, and

8 this is General Gvero speaking:

9 "If you and members have been shot at, it was not by us. Rather,

10 following the familiar scenario, they were shot at by the Muslims, who are

11 very close to them and whom you are protecting. Our troops didn't open

12 fire on the UN, because the UN has never been, and I hope never will be,

13 our enemy."

14 Point 3 of Major Fortin's notes state:

15 "If UNPROFOR troops were really targeted, then it was by the BiH,

16 who fired onto them, according to their old scenario. Our army never

17 attacked UNPROFOR, the BSA had never thought of UNPROFOR to be a

18 belligerent party."

19 The remaining highlighted points reflect such similarities between

20 the two conversations.

21 Q. Let's turn now to tab 2. Can you take us through the exercise

22 again?

23 A. Certainly. Here we have -- the date on these conversations is the

24 11th of July. There are five attached intercepts and they all make

25 reference to a Serbian flag being placed on a Serbian Orthodox church in

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1 Srebrenica after VRS forces entered the town. The first -- the

2 conversations recorded at 1655 and 1823 were recorded by the 2 Corps of

3 the army of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a series of three conversations

4 recorded at 1710 and shortly thereafter were intercepted by the State

5 Security Service in Tuzla.

6 So the first intercept was recorded at 1655 in the afternoon, and

7 it's a conversation between participants "X" and "Y," meaning that they

8 were unknown. The last time that "X" speaks - I believe the passage

9 should be highlighted - it says: "Pass on a message to your command that

10 there is a Serbian flag on the ruined Orthodox church in Srebrenica."

11 Then the next page, which is OTP Exhibit 349/A, was also recorded

12 on the 11th of July, at 1710 hours. It's a conversation between someone

13 named Stankovic and an unidentified man designated as "X." The second

14 time that "S," Stankovic, speaks, he says: "Listen. Just tell him there

15 is a Serbian flag on the Serbian church in Srebrenica."

16 Then on this same page, in another conversation, it states:

17 "Right after this," meaning the previous conversation, "Stankovic talked

18 to a man called Dusko." And in the first comment that "S," Stankovic,

19 makes, he says: "You probably heard, but just for your information, the

20 Serbian flag is fluttering on the Serbian church in Serbian Srebrenica."

21 Then "D," Dusko, is inaudible. And then "S" says: "But listen, it's

22 fluttering on the Serbian church in Serbian Srebrenica."

23 Then moving down on that page, it states: "Right after this,

24 Stankovic called a man named Garic. " And the second time that Stankovic

25 speaks, he says: "Listen, you've probably heard, the Serbian flag is

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1 fluttering on the Serbian church in Serbian Srebrenica."

2 The next and the last intercept in this series was recorded at

3 1823. It's between participants X and Y. And the third time that Y

4 speaks, which is halfway down in the conversation, he says: "We

5 called ... the whole town. Our flag is on the church ... the whole town.

6 They are ..."

7 The corroborating material for the previous intercepts are

8 photographs that were extracted from video footage shot on both the 11th

9 of July and the 13th of July. The reason that I included the material

10 from the 13th of July is that there was a better still photograph that

11 could be taken of the flag. So the first two exhibits that were extracted

12 from OTP Exhibit 3, you'll see the Serbian church in Srebrenica on the

13 hill, and on the next page you'll see a close-up of the flag on that

14 church.

15 Q. Could we turn to tab 3, and could you -- do you have something

16 else to say on this? I'm sorry. I've interrupted you.

17 A. That's okay. There's still actually two more photographs I'd just

18 like to show, and these were taken on the 13th of July by a Serbian

19 reporter, Zoran Petrovic. Again, it shows the same church on the first

20 photograph, and on the second photograph it's a close-up of the flag, in

21 which you can see the cross in the middle which would have had four

22 inverted Cs around it, the Serbian flag.

23 Q. I'd like to turn your attention, please, to tab 3.

24 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Excuse me for interrupting you,

25 Mr. Harmon, but I think that we've already understood what you are trying

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1 to do, the message you are sending to the Chamber, that is, the procedure

2 that you utilised. I think that we have already understood that, so I

3 don't think, unless the contents are important for you -- but as far as

4 the Chamber is concerned -- I don't know what the position of my

5 colleagues is, but I have understood the procedure. I don't know if it's

6 the same thing for the Defence. So do we really have to go through the

7 entire file? Because if we do, we're going to need a lot of time to do

8 so.

9 MR. HARMON: No. If the Court doesn't desire it, I'm perfectly

10 happy to move on to a different subject.

11 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] I think that would be

12 preferable, yes. Please proceed.

13 MR. HARMON: All right.

14 Q. Now, at the conclusion of this exercise, Ms. Frease, did this

15 exercise contribute to your satisfaction that the intercepts were genuine

16 and they were reliable?

17 A. Yes.

18 Q. During the whole period of time you were analysing these

19 intercepts, did you find any evidence whatsoever that these intercepts

20 were fabrications, were montages, were phonies?

21 A. No.

22 Q. In your opinion, based on your work in this area of analysing

23 these intercepts, what is your opinion as to whether or not these

24 intercepts that you analysed and that have been tendered by the Prosecutor

25 in this case are reliable?

Page 8939

1 A. I believe they're absolutely reliable.

2 MR. HARMON: Now, let me turn to a different topic, and if the

3 Judges could have before them - I believe they may already - two exhibits

4 that have been previously marked, Office of the Prosecutor Exhibit 364/1

5 and 2, and if I direct your attention to 364/2, which is similar in what

6 we're going to be talking about.

7 Q. Ms. Frease, in the course of your analysis of these intercepts,

8 was part of your project to attempt to date, with specificity, the

9 intercepts that you were analysing?

10 A. Yes. That was a big part of the project.

11 Q. Did you prepare the two exhibits that are now before you,

12 Prosecutor's Exhibit 364, volume 1, and 364, volume 2?

13 A. Yes.

14 Q. There's an index contained in each of these exhibits.

15 A. Uh-huh.

16 Q. These exhibits are dated. There's a tab with a date. And a

17 number of exhibits, for example, that fall under the 15th of July have

18 been identified, and then the 16th of July and the 17th of July,

19 et cetera.

20 A. Right.

21 Q. Is that correct?

22 A. Yes.

23 Q. Now, let's focus first of all on the index. Did you prepare this

24 index?

25 A. Yes, I did.

Page 8940

1 Q. You'll see in the second column of the index there is a date

2 attributed to each intercept that is contained in the binder.

3 A. Yes.

4 Q. Now, could we take a look at, first of all, two intercepts. Are

5 there changes that should be made in this index?

6 A. Yes, there are.

7 Q. All right. Could you just direct the Judges to those changes, and

8 then I will ask you about them.

9 A. I seem to be missing the index from the second binder.

10 Q. Perhaps -- if you'd like to use my index.

11 A. Okay.

12 Q. I could give you my ...

13 MR. HARMON: And if I could have this returned.

14 Q. Now, when you refer to the changes, if you just refer to the page

15 number first. And we're talking about volume 2 here, are we not?

16 A. Right.

17 Q. Okay. Could you refer to the page number and just make changes

18 that should be made.

19 A. Uh-huh. Page 6 of the index, the last entry, which is -- under

20 the tab it says 18 July/6.

21 Q. Give the Judges just a moment to find that entry. Please proceed,

22 Ms. Frease.

23 A. The date should be the 17th of July rather than the 18th.

24 Q. Now --

25 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Harmon, you are talking

Page 8941

1 about volume 2 or volume 1?

2 MR. HARMON: Volume 2.

3 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] 2? 364/2, is that right, volume

4 2?

5 MR. HARMON: Yes, Your Honour.

6 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Thank you.

7 MR. HARMON:

8 Q. Ms. Frease, could you repeat exactly the page and the intercept

9 that you're referring to that needs to be corrected?

10 A. It's on page 6 of 8, the last entry. The tab is 18 July/6.

11 Q. Could you turn to the next --

12 A. And the date should be the 17th of July.

13 On the last page, 8 of 8, the third entry down, 25 July/1 is an

14 estimated date which we couldn't confirm with specificity but believe to

15 be in the range of a couple of days.

16 The next entry --

17 Q. Wait just a minute so the Judges can make whatever notations they

18 need to make.

19 A. Okay.

20 Q. Please proceed, Ms. Frease.

21 A. It's the next entry down. 30 July/1 should be 2 August. And the

22 next entry, which is marked 30 July/2, is also not a confirmed date but is

23 within a range of a couple of days.

24 Q. Now, Ms. Frease, are all of the other dates contained in the two

25 indexes confirmed dates?

Page 8942

1 A. Yes, they are.

2 Q. Now, let's talk briefly about this important part of your project,

3 which was dating these intercepts. Why was it important to date the

4 intercepts?

5 A. We needed to -- we needed to know with certainty which events took

6 place on which days.

7 Q. And could you tell the Trial Chamber who assisted - or not who

8 assisted you - how long it took you to fully analyse and date these

9 particular intercepts and the methodology that you used in doing so?

10 A. Uh-huh. It was something that we started from the beginning.

11 When we received the first material, the printouts, many of the printouts

12 were being translated, but at the same time we were entering them into a

13 table, and many of the printouts that we received from the army of

14 Bosnia-Herzegovina did not have dates on every page. So where we had a

15 date that was firm, we would bold it so that we knew without question that

16 that took place on that date. Where we didn't have a firm date typed on a

17 page, then we would speculate as to the date in terms of where it came in

18 the sequence, but we would not bold it, and that way we knew what was a

19 firm date and what was not a firm date.

20 When we received the notebooks, we went through a similar process,

21 but the notebooks were much more helpful in dating the material. So where

22 we found a date -- and I should say that we really focused initially,

23 because of the volume of material and the few number of people who were

24 working on the project, that we prioritised it and worked on roughly a

25 ten-day period initially and then expanded that out. When we found a date

Page 8943

1 handwritten into a notebook, we again knew that -- considered that to be a

2 firm date and would indicate it as such, and were very diligence about

3 keeping track of the dates.

4 So the easy case was when we had a firm date in a notebook or on a

5 printout. What was more difficult to figure out was when we had a range,

6 for example, a date, a firm date of, say, the 12th of July written in a

7 notebook and no dates for a number of days and then a date of the 16th of

8 July. So we would go through the process. Since these were recorded

9 chronologically, from the morning to the evening, in most cases, where it

10 changed over from night to morning, we considered that to be the beginning

11 of a new day. And if all of those matched up in the middle, from the 12th

12 to the 16th, then we considered all of the dates in between to also be

13 firm -- confirmed dates.

14 Now, there was another way that we were able to date some of the

15 conversations in the notebooks where we found overlapping conversations,

16 where we knew that these were definitely the same conversation but had

17 been recorded two or sometimes three times by different operators. If we

18 had a confirmed date in one of the notebooks or two of the notebooks, then

19 we also considered the date to be firm on that third conversation and then

20 sometimes that would help us date the conversations as well.

21 Additionally, when we received information from the SDB in Tuzla,

22 their dating system was very strong on their printouts, and we also used

23 that to corroborate the dates that we had.

24 So dating, I would say, was an extremely important part of the

25 process and something that we paid a lot of attention to.

Page 8944

1 Q. Did you also rely in part on third-party information, the type of

2 which may be contained in Prosecutor's Exhibit 863 to date? I'm not

3 talking about a large percentage. I'm talking about a very small

4 percentage?

5 A. A very, very small percentage. Really, the majority, the vast

6 majority we relied upon -- upon the internal -- we relied upon the

7 documents that we received that specifically related to this project. I

8 mean also I should say that, you know, along the way, we asked ourselves

9 whether this made sense, whether -- whether it all seemed to jibe.

10 Q. Now, then in conclusion, then the dates that have been inserted in

11 these two indexes in Prosecutor's Exhibit 364, Volume 1 and Volume 2,

12 other than the changes that you've made. What degree of certainty do you

13 have that those dates that have been entered in these two indexes are

14 accurate?

15 A. I have absolute certainty.

16 MR. HARMON: I have no additional questions, Mr. President and

17 Your Honours.

18 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Thank you very much,

19 Mr. Harmon.

20 Mr. Visnjic. Perhaps we could have a break. What do you think?

21 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Yes, Mr. President. The Defence

22 would like to use several exhibits, so I could use the break to check them

23 with the Registry and prepare.

24 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] So we're going to have a

25 20-minute break now. Thank you.

Page 8945

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3 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Visnjic, your witness for

4 the cross-examination. Please proceed.

5 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Thank you, Mr. President.

6 Cross-examined by Mr. Visnjic:

7 Q. Good morning, Ms. Frease. Ms. Frease, you have explained to the

8 Trial Chamber that the analysis of the material was a long-winded process,

9 and as far as I was able to understand, it was laborious. It went on over

10 months and even years. Am I right in saying that?

11 A. Yes, that's right.

12 Q. From your testimony, I was also able to gather that it was a

13 process that was ongoing, a continuous process, and in that ongoing

14 process, some things are added onto, supplemented, as you have indeed

15 shown us. Am I right in saying that?

16 A. Yes, that's right.

17 Q. Ms. Frease, were all the conversations translated that were in

18 your notebooks?

19 A. No.

20 Q. How did you select the conversations for translation? Which

21 criteria did you apply for that selection?

22 A. We focused on the dates, on dates within a particular range.

23 Q. Ms. Frease, the conversations between the 2nd of July, for which

24 you had determined that they were from the 2nd of July until the 2nd of

25 August, in that period - and I take this as a framework - were the

Page 8946

1 majority translated within that time frame?

2 A. Yes. I would say that the majority were. The focus, however,

3 really began on about the 10th of July.

4 Q. The conversations that you focused on, was the time determined for

5 all of them, or at least the approximate time? And when I say "time," I

6 mean the date and actual time when these conversations had allegedly taken

7 place.

8 A. Yes.

9 Q. Ms. Frease, for the conversations, that is to say, for all the

10 conversations in that period of time, did you find corroboration in some

11 other material from an independent source?

12 A. Yes.

13 Q. Ms. Frease, I won't be going through all the notebooks. I will

14 just like to select some samples for which I would need your additional

15 explanations, and I assume that because you have worked so labouriously on

16 these conversations, that you will be able to supply me with this

17 additional information that I shall be requiring.

18 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] I should now like to ask the usher

19 to show the witness Prosecution Exhibit 364/1, OTP 364/1, and I think the

20 file, the binder, is the one that you have beside you.

21 Ms. Frease, may we focus on the date the 13th of July, and it is

22 conversation number 14.

23 I should like to ask the usher once again to place the document on

24 the ELMO, the English version of this conversation on the ELMO to

25 facilitate the Trial Chamber to follow the discussion.

Page 8947

1 A. The 13th of July in which --

2 Q. The 13th of July, and it is conversation number 14. It is the

3 conversation which was established that was held at 2010 hours. The

4 participants are Deronjic and Karadzic.

5 A. Okay.

6 MR. HARMON: This is an exhibit that is under seal, so if we could

7 go perhaps into private session on this line of inquiry.

8 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Is the whole volume under seal?

9 MR. HARMON: No, but this particular insert is under seal.

10 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Let us move into private

11 session, then, please.

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6 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Visnjic, please proceed.

7 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation]

8 Q. Ms. Frease, perhaps I shall have to ask my questions more

9 precisely. For all the conversations of the critical period, were the

10 dates confirmed, and possibly the fact that the conversation actually took

11 place?

12 A. For all of the conversations in the two binders, in OTP Exhibit

13 364/1 and 2, all of the dates of the conversations are confirmed, with the

14 exception of the four that I mentioned earlier in my testimony.

15 Q. Was the content confirmed as well for those conversations, as you

16 explained to the Trial Chamber with Exhibit 863? That is to say, were all

17 the documents, 364/1 and 2, were they confirmed by the accompanying

18 documents and material, as in the case of Exhibit 863, which you

19 explained?

20 A. No, they weren't.

21 Q. I assume that that is even less the case with the other

22 conversations, which you were not focusing on by your investigation team

23 and which are in the other notebooks which have been tendered as evidence

24 by the Prosecution. Am I right in assuming that?

25 A. I believe, as I stated at the beginning, we -- I did choose to

Page 8949

1 focus on this one particular week in order to provide corroborating

2 evidence. There were other examples from later periods of time or -- I

3 can definitely say from later periods of time that could have also been

4 independently corroborated.

5 Q. Ms. Frease, I should like to take advantage of your presence here

6 in the courtroom to take a look at Prosecution Exhibit 364/2, Volume 2.

7 It is the last conversation that I'm interested in in this particular

8 exhibit?

9 A. From the 2nd of August.

10 Q. Yes, that's right, the 2nd of August.

11 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] I'd like to ask Mr. Harmon or his

12 assistance. Is this document under seal?

13 MR. HARMON: Both are under seal.

14 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, unfortunately, I have

15 to request that we go into private session briefly again, please.

16 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] You don't ask for it very often,

17 so let us move into private session for a few moments.

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8 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] We are in open session, so

9 please proceed.

10 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation]

11 Q. Ms. Frease, do we not have in front of us a copy, an example of a

12 conversation in which some facts have been confirmed and others have not

13 been confirmed? Am I right in saying that?

14 A. Yes, that's right.

15 Q. Ms. Frease, I should now like to ask you to look at the next

16 series of exhibits and to assist the Defence in determining a date, that

17 is to say, to explain to us the methods you used for date determination

18 for the individual conversations.

19 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Could the Prosecutor, that is to say

20 to the usher to show the witness Prosecution Exhibit 290. The usher,

21 please, not the Prosecutor. The usher. I apologise.

22 MR. HARMON: Mr. President, this exhibit is also under seal.

23 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Therefore, we shall go into

24 private session to examine this document, this exhibit.

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Page 8953

1 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation]

2 Q. Ms. Frease, do we have an example of a conversation with the right

3 date above that conversation, when the conversation took place?

4 A. Yes.

5 Q. And that was an element on the basis of which you were able to

6 determine this, the days when the conversation took place and all the

7 other conversations, am I right?

8 A. Yes. That should be the case.

9 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, I should like to use

10 Exhibit 289 now, please, and I assume that that exhibit is under seal as

11 well, so we'll have a bit of difficulty in the time to come.

12 THE INTERPRETER: The interpreter corrects herself. On line 36,

13 it does not say he's "shaving," but he's "hiding." The word was "hiding,"

14 not"shaving."

15 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] There is one point that I

16 haven't understood. The intercept that you read out, was it under seal or

17 not? I don't think it was, because it was the first time that it was

18 presented to the Chamber.

19 Mr. Harmon.

20 MR. HARMON: The notebook from which -- that contains the

21 intercept is under seal.

22 JUDGE RODRIGUES: The notebook. Okay. [Interpretation] Okay.

23 Let us move into private session for the next intercept.

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12 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] We are in open session now. You

13 may continue, Mr. Visnjic.

14 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation]

15 Q. Ms. Frease, what was the last exhibit I was referring to? 289?

16 Ms. Frease, I'm referring to two telephone conversations on page

17 00801429. That is the beginning. And then they go on to page 00801432.

18 I apologise for the interpreters. I think they didn't receive the

19 beginning of this conversation, so will they be patient with me, please.

20 So the first conversation, at frequency 255.950, at 1300 hours,

21 the participant, Uran 2 - X - Colonel Cerovic (Obrad)

22 [As read]

23 Uran:

24 X: Uran. Fine ...

25 Uran: Hello.

Page 8956

1 Cerovic: Colonel Cerovic.

2 Uran: Hey, Uran 2. How are you, boss?

3 Cerovic: Hello.

4 Uran: How are you?

5 Cerovic: I'm fine, my friend. How are you?

6 Uran: It's working all right. Listen.

7 Cerovic: Hello.

8 Uran: Listen.

9 Cerovic: Wait for me to switch over to another. I can't

10 hear you at all on this one.

11 Uran: Go ahead. Switch over.

12 Cerovic: Tell me.

13 Uran: Krstic has personally ordered and 01 has ordered

14 the same.

15 Cerovic: Yes.

16 Uran: This convoy that is going over there for Kladanj.

17 Cerovic: Yes.

18 Uran: (Disturbance)

19 Cerovic: Fine.

20 Uran: (Disturbance) That no one has the right to do

21 anything. (Disturbances)

22 Cerovic: Fine.

23 Uran: Go on. Literally that we behave in a civilised

24 manner and that all men behave in that way so that we shouldn't have a

25 repetition of the problems we had before.

Page 8957

1 Cerovic: Okay.

2 Uran: Please, call up those public security stations and

3 call up the unit commanders who are over there. Call all those who are

4 responsible to make sure that everything is done properly and

5 (unintelligible).

6 Cerovic: Okay.

7 Uran: There you are, boss.

8 Cerovic: When are they starting off, Obrad?

9 Uran: I don't know. I am not able to tell you when.

10 I'll tell you, but take steps immediately.

11 Cerovic: Okay.

12 Uran: Take steps immediately. Call them up, and you

13 must know exactly the persons to whom you have conveyed the message, the

14 most responsible ones, and check through the operations officer on duty

15 that it is being implemented.

16 Cerovic: Okay.

17 Uran: There you are, my boss.

18 Cerovic: Bye.

19 Uran: Bye. Good luck.

20 Ms. Frease, this conversation was carried out at 1300 hours. Can

21 you tell us the date? Can you give a date for that conversation?

22 A. If this isn't a part of the material that the Prosecution has

23 presented, I don't have that material with me, but if I could -- if I

24 could get some other material, I could likely provide you with a date.

25 Q. You mean your working material; is that what you're referring to?

Page 8958

1 A. Yes.

2 Q. May I ask you another question, and then we can get an answer from

3 the Office of the Prosecutor. That is, after your testimony, you could

4 provide us with the answer as to when you assume this conversation was

5 conducted, the exact time of it.

6 A. Okay.

7 Q. May I ask you now to look at the next conversation, frequency

8 259.675, at 1319, participants Colonel Cerovic and Djuric.

9 A. I'm sorry. What -- uh-huh. Okay. Uh-huh. Okay.

10 Q. The next conversation that follows on to this one.

11 [As read]

12 Cerovic: Milovan.

13 Djuric: Djuric.

14 Cerovic: Who is it?

15 Djuric: Djuric.

16 Cerovic: Ilija.

17 Djuric: Me.

18 Cerovic: So there in your area of responsibility --

19 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Visnjic, I see that the

20 Court reporter in English has difficulty in following you. Otherwise your

21 intercept will not enter in the transcript, which I think is what you

22 want, so please slow down.

23 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation]

24 Cerovic: So there and in your area of responsibility.

25 Djuric: Yes.

Page 8959

1 Cerovic: Everything has to pass without being stopped,

2 without searching, and at the cost of executing some who might try to

3 jeopardise the convoy.

4 Djuric: Okay.

5 Cerovic: And now call Markovic to the SUP and convey to

6 him that that is the order of the President of the Republic, that they

7 should, together with us, in their area of responsibility up there, up to

8 where they border with the people from Sokolac, and that they should hand

9 over to the people of Sokolac all that safely.

10 Djuric: Fine.

11 Cerovic: Have you understood?

12 Djuric: (Can't be heard).

13 Cerovic: You will let me know whether Markovic has

14 received the message. Report that to the duty officer.

15 Djuric: Fine. I think that he is in the field, he has

16 other assignments, but I will convey it to him in that way and let you

17 know.

18 Cerovic: Fine.

19 Djuric: Okay.

20 Cerovic: Bye.

21 Ms. Frease, on the basis of the notebook, could you perhaps --

22 A. Try to date it?

23 Q. Yes, try to date it, or rather a date after which that

24 conversation must have taken place.

25 A. Yes. What was the page number that we were on initially?

Page 8960

1 Q. The last numbers are 1429. Can I assist you? On page 1416.

2 A. Right. This conversation would have taken place on the 25th of

3 July, 1995.

4 Q. Not after that date?

5 A. No, not after the date, because on page 00801438, there's the date

6 of 26 July 1995.

7 Q. In any event, if we go back to the time frame of the events in

8 question, this conversation took place after the events that occurred in

9 connection with the 28th Division and after the mass executions which the

10 Prosecution alleges occurred between the 12th and the 18th. Am I right?

11 A. That's correct. I could add something about the context of this

12 conversation. I do remember it.

13 Q. Yes. Please do.

14 A. There are -- I recall looking at other conversations of a similar

15 nature. Also in this period of time, which was the time when the Zepa

16 enclave was falling, and there were similar -- I recall similar

17 conversations in which an officer of the VRS Main Staff also issued a

18 similar order that the buses, the convoy of people that were being

19 deported from the Zepa enclave were to be treated well.

20 Q. Thank you, Ms. Frease. You have saved the Defence some time for

21 future presentation of evidence.

22 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, the Defence will

23 suggest to the witness that she examine Prosecution Exhibit 293 now. It

24 is -- Mr. President, it is a conversation on page of this Exhibit 00801935

25 [Realtime transcript read in error "Exhibit 008018935]. I see in the

Page 8961

1 transcript there's a mistake. 00801935. Ms. Frease, may I continue?

2 A. Yes.

3 Q. This conversation was conducted on frequency 823.150 at 1955

4 hours. The participants are General Zivanovic and Colonel Ecimovic.

5 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, this is a

6 conversation, the reading of which would take some 15 minutes, so for the

7 transcript, I should like to read an excerpt and then later on the Defence

8 will prepare a transcript and a translation of the whole conversation.

9 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Harmon.

10 MR. HARMON: It's difficult to consider the redirect examination

11 without the benefit of an English-language translation. I find myself at

12 a disadvantage under these circumstances. I can't read what's in this

13 transcript, and if a portion of this is going to be selected, I can't

14 review it to put the proper context of it, and so I am going to request

15 that prior to either the examination of this witness being concluded that

16 we be provided with a translation of this or the court permit me an

17 opportunity to recall Ms. Frease to examine her after I've seen the full

18 English-language translation of the intercept. And that applies, frankly,

19 to all of these intercepts that have not been translated.

20 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Visnjic. Do you agree?

21 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, I agree, and I have a

22 short answer for Mr. Harmon. These are Prosecution exhibits, and the

23 Defence rightfully assumed that they had been translated into both working

24 languages. We received these documents from the Prosecution, and I

25 understand from Ms. Frease that some of these conversations were not

Page 8962

1 translated. And I agree with Mr. Harmon's suggestion that either he call

2 Ms. Frease later on to re-examine her, or I don't know what the other

3 suggestion was, that those exhibits be translated and provided to the

4 Prosecution in English.

5 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Very well. We will consider the

6 possibility of recalling the witness in the afternoon, and I think that

7 Mr. Harmon will have a chance to review the transcript in which there is

8 already an English translation.

9 So if Mr. Harmon finds it's necessary to review all the

10 transcripts to re-examine the witness, we will do that in the afternoon.

11 So you may continue, Mr. Visnjic, please.

12 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, I should save

13 Mr. Harmon some time. So I won't read the whole transcript to the

14 witness. Just as information to the Trial Chamber, let me tell you that

15 it is a conversation in which General Zivanovic and Colonel Ecimovic

16 discuss the provision of certain foodstuffs, agricultural produce for the

17 Drina Corps, and what I wanted to ask Ms. Frease, because the Defence

18 considers this exhibit to be important, because General Zivanovic said

19 that he prepared those goods for the whole corps. So my question is:

20 Could Ms. Frease date this conversation?

21 A. Again, I would have to refer to the entire body of the -- of my

22 work, which I don't have here in front of me. I'd be happy to

23 double-check it. I mean it's clear that on this page that date is

24 indicated, I believe, but I would like to seen the original notebook as

25 10/8/1995, so the 10th of August, 1995.

Page 8963

1 What makes me a little -- what makes me uncertain is that three --

2 let's see. About three pages prior to that, on page 00801928, there is a

3 date of 19/9/1995, and on the subsequent -- on -- about three pages from

4 that, there is another date on page 00801941, which indicates the 27th of

5 October, 1995.

6 So I would -- I mean clearly this falls out of a sequence. The

7 other -- I believe I saw another date. Yes, I see another date further

8 down in the notebook, on page 00801948, indicating the 31st of October,

9 1995. My --

10 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation]

11 Q. Ms. Frease, may I try and assist you?

12 A. You may.

13 Q. On page 1928, there is indeed the date 19th of September, as you

14 said. On page 1934 that follows that page, there is the date the 10th of

15 August, which is absolutely illogical --

16 A. Right.

17 Q. -- as the notebook is filled in in order. Immediately after that

18 on that same page, if you look at the same conversation, you will find the

19 date the 11th or the 14th of October, 1995. That is the first following

20 conversation. The same page, 1934, a few lines later on, you have another

21 date indicated.

22 A. Oh, yes. Okay. Uh-huh. Yes. I expect that what happened was

23 that the 10 and the 8 for the months were transposed, that in fact the

24 first date that appears on page 00801934 should be the 8th of October,

25 1995. That would make sense with the sequence that we're dealing with.

Page 8964

1 Q. In any event, there is a probability that this conversation took

2 place in October. Am I right?

3 A. Yes.

4 Q. Thank you.

5 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] May I ask the usher to show the

6 witness Prosecution Exhibit 843 next, please.

7 Q. Ms. Frease, in your examination-in-chief, you told us that in

8 the -- you worked in the OTP until July 2000.

9 A. That's correct.

10 Q. I think that the evidence was obtained by the OTP a little later.

11 Is that right?

12 A. Yes. That's my understanding.

13 Q. I should now like to ask you to apply the same method you applied

14 when you collected the corroborating material for one particular

15 conversation, and that conversation is on page 01077815.

16 A. Okay.

17 Q. The conversation took place on channel -- I think it says number

18 2, at 1051.

19 A. To me it looks like channel 5, but ...

20 Q. Possibly, yes. I have a poor copy. The conversation was between

21 X and Y, and they are Bogicevic and General Zivanovic.

22 [As read]

23 X: Hello.

24 Y: Hello.

25 X: Is Zivanovic there?

Page 8965

1 Y: Yes, he is. Who wants him?

2 X: Ah, Bogicevic from Belgrade.

3 Y: Just a moment, please.

4 X: Good day ... Just a moment, General, sir. Bogicevic

5 is calling for you. Yes.

6 Zivanovic: Yes.

7 Bogicevic: Hello, Zile [phoen].

8 Zivanovic: Hi, Bogi.

9 Bogicevic: Good luck.

10 Zivanovic: Thank you.

11 Bogicevic: I brought the truck ... 5 tonnes of goods you

12 have here in Ljubovija.

13 Zivanovic: Yes. That's just the same as if you were in

14 Belgrade.

15 Bogicevic: Well, what can we do now? That's what Triso

16 told me.

17 Zivanovic: What?

18 Bogicevic: Triso told me to do that.

19 Zivanovic: Triso doesn't understand anything about

20 borders.

21 Bogicevic: Yes.

22 Zivanovic: If he told you, then inform him and give it

23 to him.

24 Bogicevic: We're going to take some over there up to

25 you.

Page 8966

1 Zivanovic: Where?

2 Bogicevic: Over there where you are.

3 Zivanovic: I'm in Belgrade now.

4 Bogicevic: Uh-huh.

5 Zivanovic: I liberated Srebrenica, and I have now been

6 assigned a new duty.

7 Bogicevic: Yes, yes. Okay.

8 Zivanovic: How are you?

9 Bogicevic: All right. Bogicevic, that is. Excellent.

10 I'll come up there.

11 Zivanovic: ... I'm not going anywhere.

12 Bogicevic: I'll come up there now with some watermelons

13 to help you cool down.

14 Zivanovic: Okay.

15 Bogicevic: Uh-huh.

16 Zivanovic: How are my Serbian people doing?

17 Bogicevic: All right. (Krile?) mine.

18 Zivanovic: Everything's all right ... Say hello to the

19 Serbs.

20 Bogicevic: I will ... We'll be hearing each other.

21 Zivanovic: Okay.

22 Bogicevic: Bye.

23 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Visnjic, I did not interrupt

24 you, but I think that you have already read this transcript for the

25 LiveNote and I have remembered the date. I know the date. I'm not going

Page 8967

1 to say the date because I don't want to influence the witness, but that

2 was a repetition of the reading of that particular portion; is that

3 correct?

4 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, that is correct, but

5 I now have two questions to ask the witness. One is with respect to the

6 date. The second is with respect to the contents, so I had to read it out

7 again.

8 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Very well. Please proceed.

9 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation]

10 Q. Ms. Frease, did you tell us the date, determine the date, although

11 a witness has already done that. A Prosecution witness has already done

12 that, but could you now determine the date of that conversation for us,

13 please, again?

14 A. Yes.

15 Q. I think it is page 10 -- no, 0107798. I think it says the 14th of

16 July, 1995 on that particular page. Perhaps we can begin ...

17 A. The number I thought you referred to was 01077794; is that

18 correct?

19 Q. No. 01077798.

20 A. Okay.

21 Q. Let me help you. I'm going to read the last three digits of the

22 page. 807. And on that page we have the conversation which took place at

23 2038 between General Zivanovic and Major Jokic, and in what we received

24 from the Prosecution, it was taken on the 14th of July, in the evening,

25 at, as I say, 2038 hours.

Page 8968

1 A. Okay. Right. And then there's another date, the date of the --

2 Q. Then we have another date, yes. And on page 811, and I'm quoting

3 the last digits, we have the 15th of July, 1995. Am I correct?

4 A. Yes.

5 Q. Following on from that logic, when was this -- when did this

6 conversation take place?

7 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] I should like to ask the usher to

8 prepare Prosecution Exhibit OTP 469 next, please, if he would.

9 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Visnjic, we have the logics

10 of it but not the answer. We haven't heard an answer yet.

11 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Yes. We're waiting, Your Honour.

12 I'm waiting for the answer too, Mr. President.

13 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Very well. Thank you.

14 A. Okay. If you can wait just a minute until I finish. Thank you.

15 Yes.

16 Okay. I found a date of the 18th of July on page 01077846 and

17 have counted one, two days back. So 17, 16, this one dated on the 15th.

18 So -- I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you for the original number of

19 the conversation we were looking at again. But it -- uh-huh. Yes. It

20 would have been on the 15th of July.

21 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation]

22 Q. Ms. Frease, in this conversation, if you still have it in front of

23 you, I'm going to quote a sentence. I'm going to quote one sentence from

24 that conversation.

25 A. Please, if I could just turn back to it. Could you give me the

Page 8969

1 number again?

2 Q. 815.

3 A. Uh-huh.

4 Q. In the second half of the conversation, at one point

5 General Zivanovic says the following: "I have liberated Srebrenica, and I

6 have now been given a new assignment."

7 Ms. Frease, you have in front of you a document, a Prosecution

8 document.

9 JUDGE RODRIGUES: 469.

10 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] 469. Yes, Mr. President. Thank you

11 very much.

12 Q. Number 469. Could you turn to page 2 of the document. The first

13 page is the accompanying letter for the documentation which the Government

14 of Republika Srpska sent to the Tribunal, and page 2 is the decree of the

15 president of the Republika Srpska of the 15th of July, 1995, by which

16 Zivanovic is placed at their disposal, Milenko Zivanovic.

17 Ms. Frease, my question is: Does this document confirm the

18 sentence "I have now been given a new assignment," and is it the same

19 document you yourself used in preparing the documents for the OTP?

20 A. To my -- the system that I used was to take in all of the relevant

21 material that I could collect and to look at that, all of that material,

22 for specific intercepts and to see whether there were any internal

23 discrepancies among the documents that -- among the corroborating material

24 that I would use, with internal inconsistencies based on a whole set of

25 documents -- I mean, I guess a little bit of difficulty that I'm having is

Page 8970

1 that I'm aware of some other information that might not support this

2 document.

3 Q. Ms. Frease, let us put the question another way. Is there any

4 consistency between this particular conversation and the document? You

5 can give us a yes or no answer.

6 A. I would like to read the intercept again.

7 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Please go ahead.

8 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Yes, Mr. Harmon.

9 MR. HARMON: Your Honour, I have the original. Perhaps the

10 original would assist the witness. I'm not sure how clear a copy she has.

11 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Maybe that would be clearer.

12 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation].

13 Q. While you're looking for it, Ms. Frease, may I --

14 A. It's not the same notebook.

15 Q. May I put the question to you in another way? Does this document

16 correspond to -- fit into the contents of the conversation? Does it fit

17 into the contents and substance of the conversation?

18 A. Yes.

19 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Thank you. Mr. President, the

20 Defence has no further questions for this witness.

21 Thank you, Ms. Frease.

22 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Okay. Very well. I think this

23 is a good time to take a break. I think that Mr. Harmon will also have an

24 opportunity to look at the transcript during the lunch break, and then we

25 can come back for any additional questions. I think we all need a break

Page 8971

1 at this point, so let us take a 50-minute lunch break. We'll adjourn for

2 lunch.

3 Is that a sufficient time for you, Mr. Harmon?

4 MR. HARMON: Yes, that's fine. Thank you.

5 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Visnjic, how about you?

6 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, yes, but I would just

7 like to take advantage of this opportunity to clarify one point.

8 Ms. Frease, is she here as a witness or as an expert? Bearing in mind

9 what she is doing in the Office of the Prosecution, do we treat her as a

10 witness or in the same way that we treated expert witnesses? That is my

11 question to Mr. Harmon.

12 MR. HARMON: I can go right to the point. I will not have any

13 contact with Ms. Frease between now and the time she resumes the stand.

14 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Very well. So you have

15 understood the sense of that question. We adjourn for 50 minutes.

16 --- Recess taken at 12.23 p.m.

17 --- On resuming at 1.18 p.m.

18 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] I see Mr. Visnjic on his feet.

19 I suppose that you are going to communicate to us the result of the

20 homework that you've been doing. [In English] Not that you've been doing,

21 but the witness has done.

22 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, I know that I said

23 that I completed, but I would like to beg the Court's indulgence. I have

24 just a brief area. So would the Trial Chamber allow me to ask a few more

25 questions, and I promise they won't be more than three or four minutes. I

Page 8972

1 omitted to bring up this topic, bogged up as we were by all the documents

2 and material. I have asked Mr. Harmon, so perhaps he can give you his

3 view on that.

4 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Visnjic, we see that the

5 lunch hour is always very productive and fertile.

6 Mr. Harmon, do you have any objections?

7 MR. HARMON: I was going to ask you, "What lunch hour?" Your

8 Honour, but I have no objections.

9 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] We know that you have a very

10 difficult and complicated lunch hour.

11 But Mr. Visnjic, please proceed.

12 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Thank you, Mr. President. I shall

13 do my best not to abuse the trust you have placed in me.

14 Cross-examined by Mr. Visnjic: [Continued]

15 Q. Ms. Frease, when did you learn for the first time of the alleged

16 statement of General Krstic, which is mentioned here under the "Kill them

17 all" statement?

18 A. Could you restate your question?

19 Q. Ms. Frease, the Prosecution has offered the Court a tape and

20 notebooks, with a conversation which allegedly took place between General

21 Krstic -- with General Krstic, and which internally -- or which we have

22 become accustomed to calling, between the Defence and the Prosecution, the

23 "Kill them all" conversation or statement. I think you are aware of the

24 conversation I'm referring to. Now, when did you learn of that

25 conversation first? Can you remember?

Page 8973

1 A. I believe that it was in the spring of 1999. I can't tell you the

2 exact month, but probably April, May, something like that.

3 Q. What was your reaction when you heard about that conversation for

4 the first time, that is to say, when you analysed the conversation?

5 A. Well, the first reaction was one of some surprise because it was

6 new to us. We first heard it on tape and had not come across it in any of

7 the written material.

8 Q. When you came across it in the written material. And when was

9 that?

10 A. That was shortly thereafter. Because we hadn't heard it in the

11 material before, I thought that it must not have taken place in July,

12 since most of the material that we had covered -- since the material that

13 we covered focused on July. So I went through notebooks, I identified

14 notebooks that contained transcribed conversations from August, and I

15 began to look through them, and that was how I found the written notebook,

16 and it was shortly after hearing the tape.

17 Q. Did you consider that to be significant evidence, one of the most

18 important for the Prosecution case?

19 A. I didn't.

20 Q. Why?

21 A. Because there were a lot of conversations that were important.

22 Q. What efforts did you make to identify the voice of General Krstic

23 on that tape, and were you at all able to -- were you at all involved in

24 those activities?

25 A. Not in any sort of formal way.

Page 8974

1 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Harmon.

2 MR. HARMON: I object to that question. We've presented to the

3 Chamber an expert witness that represents our efforts to identify the

4 voice - the Court has heard that witness, Dr. French - and they've heard

5 another witness, whose name I will not reveal, also in respect of that

6 topic.

7 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Visnjic.

8 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, I will withdraw my

9 question and rephrase it. Mr. President, I'll withdraw the question and

10 go on to my next question, actually.

11 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] No. Excuse me, please,

12 Mr. Visnjic. I myself have a question.

13 Did you hear several diskettes or reels?

14 A. Yes.

15 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] How many times, more or less,

16 did you hear the voice of -- no. Let me rephrase that.

17 Did you identify the voice of General Krstic?

18 A. Can you be more specific?

19 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Did you recognise a voice which

20 was could supposedly have been that of General Krstic?

21 A. I could not recognise General Krstic's voice independent without

22 there having been reference made within a particular transcript or --

23 right, within a tape recording or a transcript of who the conversants

24 were. A main part of my job did not involve listening to the

25 conversations. That work was primarily carried out by the language

Page 8975

1 assistants, interpreters, translators.

2 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Okay. Very well.

3 Mr. Visnjic, you may proceed.

4 Thank you very much, Witness.

5 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation]

6 Q. Ms. Frease, perhaps I should have put my question a different

7 way. What efforts did the Prosecution take in the sense of confirming

8 identification? But Mr. Harmon has already answered that question, and I

9 just wish to clarify what I meant in asking that question.

10 Now, my following question is: Did you ask the people who

11 conducted the intercepts about this particular conversation?

12 A. Yes.

13 Q. Was that the interview with Witness Z of the 21st of November,

14 1999, or sometime in that period?

15 A. I believe I know who you're referring to. It would make me more

16 comfortable to see the name of Witness Z, but I did conduct a conversation

17 with one witness regarding that conversation.

18 Q. Can you remember whether it was in the autumn of 1999?

19 A. Yes.

20 Q. Do you happen to know why this conversation was not used in the

21 main part of the Prosecution presentation of evidence?

22 A. No, I don't.

23 Q. Why was this conversation not included into the evidence that you

24 prepared, and that is Exhibit 364 that you prepared for the main part of

25 the presentation of the Prosecution's evidence?

Page 8976

1 A. I was asked to prepare those binders, which is what I did. It was

2 a process that we went through. The final decision about all of the

3 documents that were included was not my own.

4 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, I have no further

5 questions. Thank you.

6 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Okay. Very well, Mr. Visnjic.

7 Mr. Harmon, we are now going to see how productive exactly your

8 lunch break was. Any additional questions?

9 MR. HARMON: Yes. Thank you. I do have some.

10 Re-examined by Mr. Harmon:

11 Q. Let me turn first of all, Ms. Frease --

12 MR. HARMON: The witness should be provided with Prosecution

13 Exhibits 364/1 and 364/2.

14 Q. Do you have those in front of you, Ms. Frease?

15 A. Yes.

16 Q. You were asked about a conversation that is found in Volume 1 at

17 July 13th, tab 14. Would you turn to that tab, please.

18 This is a conversation that is intercepted at 2010 hours on

19 channel 5B, bottom code-name. It starts at the top with that.

20 A. Yes.

21 Q. Do you have that conversation in front of you?

22 A. Yes.

23 Q. The question my that colleague Mr. Visnjic asked you was was this

24 conversation confirmed or corroborated, and what I would like to do,

25 please, is I'd like to go through this conversation in light of the

Page 8977

1 knowledge of your events of what occurred in Srebrenica and ask you to,

2 first of all, direct your attention to the first reference to the

3 gentleman named Deronjic. Who do you believe that to be?

4 A. I believe that to be a gentleman by the name of Miroslav Deronjic,

5 from Bratunac, who at the time had been appointed as the civilian

6 commissioner to Srebrenica.

7 Q. And indeed, this conversation deals with civilians, in part, does

8 it not; or Muslims, in part, does it not?

9 A. Yes, that would be my interpretation.

10 Q. And, independently, are you aware that Miroslav Deronjic was in

11 fact in Bratunac on the 13th of July?

12 A. Yes, I am.

13 Q. Are you aware of that based on film that you have seen of

14 negotiations -- I'll take that back. Strike that.

15 How are you aware that Mr. Deronjic was in Bratunac on the 13th?

16 A. Through film footage.

17 Q. Is it also -- actually, let me then ask you to go to the next area

18 where it says: [As read] "Deronjic: The president is asking how many

19 thousands," and the next reference is: "About 2.000 for the time being."

20 On the 13th of July, are you aware that there were Muslim

21 prisoners being detained in Bratunac?

22 A. Yes, I am.

23 Q. And is the figure, the reference that's made in this intercept

24 that there were at least "2.000 for the time being" consistent with your

25 knowledge of the events on the 13th of July?

Page 8978

1 A. I can't put a number to the number of people who were detained,

2 but I am aware that many Muslims were detained in Bratunac on that day.

3 Q. Okay. Now, let me ask you -- then go down to the bottom, two

4 sets, where it says: "Deronjic: The president says all the goods must be

5 placed inside the warehouses before 12.00 tomorrow."

6 The next line:

7 "Deronjic: Right.

8 Deronjic: Not in the warehouses but somewhere else."

9 Are you aware that on the 13th of July, Muslim prisoners who were

10 being detained in Bratunac were moved from Bratunac to locations

11 elsewhere?

12 A. Yes, I am.

13 Q. And where were those individuals moved in?

14 A. They were primarily moved to schools.

15 Q. What location? Outside of Bratunac?

16 A. Outside of Bratunac, yes. In the Zvornik municipality in general,

17 and also, I guess, Pilica is -- well, that was later.

18 Q. Therefore, in looking at this intercept, when my colleague asked

19 you if this conversation has been corroborated, are there elements

20 contained in this conversation that have been corroborated by independent

21 investigation conducted by the Office of the Prosecutor?

22 A. The information in here is consistent with what we have found in

23 the investigation, yes.

24 Q. All right. Let me turn now to Volume 2, if I could, and refer you

25 to in the last conversation, a conversation dated the 2nd of August. Do

Page 8979

1 you have that conversation in front of you?

2 A. Yes.

3 Q. Now, this is a conversation that has a telephone number in it;

4 correct?

5 A. That's correct.

6 Q. And you said on your direct examination that one of the ways that

7 you considered attempting to verify whether or not these documents were

8 genuine was by consulting a number of sources, including telephone books;

9 is that correct?

10 A. That's correct.

11 Q. In the Prosecutor's Exhibit 863 that has been shown to you earlier

12 and that you prepared, there is in fact one tabbed item where there's a

13 reference to a telephone book; is that correct?

14 A. That's correct.

15 Q. Now, are you aware of whose telephone number is mentioned in this

16 particular intercept?

17 A. It appears to be General Krstic's telephone number.

18 Q. Are you aware that General Krstic, on the 1st of November, 2000,

19 when asked by my colleague, Mr. McCloskey, about whose telephone number

20 that was, confirmed indeed that that was his telephone number?

21 A. I wasn't aware of that.

22 MR. HARMON: And that, for Your Honours' reference, is found at

23 pages 6814 and 6815 of the Prosecutor's - I'm sorry - of the English

24 language version of the transcript.

25 Q. Now, let's examine this just a little bit further. You're

Page 8980

1 unfamiliar, according to your testimony, with somebody, an officer, by the

2 name of Delgadasi; is that correct?

3 A. Yes.

4 Q. But General Krstic in his cross-examination has confirmed the

5 telephone number that is contained in this particular intercept, this

6 being his own.

7 A. Uh-huh.

8 Q. Is that a factor that -- how do you weigh that factor?

9 A. I would consider that -- I would consider it very strong

10 corroborating material for this intercept.

11 Q. Now, let's turn to another item that was referred to by my

12 colleague, and it is found in OTP Exhibit 289.

13 A. I don't have that exhibit.

14 MR. HARMON: Could that exhibit, please, be furnished to the

15 witness.

16 Q. Now, the conversation I'm directing your attention to is found at

17 the page that has the ERN number with the last four digits 1429.

18 A. Okay.

19 Q. Okay. Now, this is a conversation -- actually, I'll withdraw that

20 question. Can you date this conversation? Are you able to date this

21 conversation by looking at any other notes that you may have?

22 A. The material that I wanted to obtain during lunchtime is

23 voluminous and hasn't been printed out, so I'll just try to look at the

24 notebook and see if I can find a date.

25 Q. Well, if you go to 1416 --

Page 8981

1 A. Right.

2 Q. And if you go to 1438 --

3 A. Right.

4 Q. -- you will see two dates.

5 A. Yes.

6 Q. And just, then, if you don't have your other materials based on at

7 least your preliminary analysis of comparing the dates and the location of

8 the conversation in respect of those dates, are you able to give us at

9 least a tentative answer as to when this conversation occurred?

10 A. Yes. On the 25th of July, 1995.

11 Q. Now, were events occurring in Zepa on the 25th of July, 1995?

12 A. Yes, they were.

13 Q. Were civilians who were in Zepa being evacuated by bus?

14 A. Yes.

15 Q. I can't read the language, but I have obtained a copy of the

16 LiveNote, and I'd like to read you a portion of what has been interpreted

17 in the LiveNote.

18 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Harmon, perhaps for the

19 benefit of the Defence, you could give us the page number, and for our

20 benefit as well, of course.

21 MR. HARMON: Let me -- unfortunately, I can't read this, but I

22 have the translation. I can direct my colleagues, perhaps, to the

23 sentence and they can find it in the -- I think it will be

24 actually -- actually, I believe it will be on page with the last four

25 digits 1430.

Page 8982

1 Q. There's a reference to -- it's been translated as follows. One of

2 the correspondents says, [As read] "Literally, that we behave in a

3 civilised manner and that all men behave in that way so that we

4 don't -- that we shouldn't have a repetition of the problems we had

5 before."

6 Now, by the 25th of July, 1995, had it, as far as you're aware,

7 come to the attention of the media and the world's attention that there

8 had been, allegedly, large-scale killings of Muslim prisoners and Muslim

9 civilians in Srebrenica?

10 A. Yes.

11 Q. And to your knowledge, by the 25th of July, was that -- were the

12 people in the VRS aware that the world was now focusing on the events

13 related to the takeover of the enclaves?

14 A. Yes.

15 Q. Now, then the sentence that I've just read to you, that "We should

16 behave in a civilised manner so we don't have a repetition of the problems

17 we had before," in light of the events, the date, are you able to give us

18 any view at all as to what this may refer to?

19 A. Yes. Am I also able to draw upon other material that I remember

20 reading in the intercepts?

21 Q. Please.

22 A. As I mentioned earlier, I recall a conversation in which a VRS

23 Main Staff officer, I believe, mentioned it was -- it was a similar

24 conversation, but at a higher level, and there was an order given to the

25 effect -- the line was, "Not a single hair must be missing from their

Page 8983

1 heads," something to that effect, that the impression from that

2 conversation, this conversation, and others, was that there

3 was -- actually, that also the officers were to be dressed well along the

4 road, the VRS officers were to be dressed well, they were to behave well,

5 because there was going to be press, as I recall, but certainly

6 international monitors observing.

7 Q. Do you remember any intercepts at all dealing with -- about CNN

8 paying attention to these events, if you recall?

9 A. I don't. I don't recall that.

10 MR. HARMON: All right. I have no additional questions, Your

11 Honours. Thank you very much.

12 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Thank you very much,

13 Mr. Harmon.

14 Judge Fouad Riad, do you have any questions?

15 Questioned by the Court:

16 JUDGE RIAD: Ms. Frease, good afternoon.

17 A. Good afternoon.

18 JUDGE RIAD: Can you hear me?

19 A. Yes, I can.

20 JUDGE RIAD: I have just a general question to start with

21 concerning what you call the labourious process to deal with the

22 material. Now, when you have to question or to verify that the document,

23 a tape, has to meet with certain requirements of reliability, and these

24 requirements are not fulfilled, do you discard it completely or do you

25 still keep it in case of doubt?

Page 8984

1 A. Are you referring specifically to -- are you --

2 JUDGE RIAD: All right. Suppose, for instance, you have a tape

3 where the voice is not clear or where the names are not mentioned, and you

4 gave us several tests. You said you have to -- the intercepts should be

5 consistent with what you knew about the case and with other -- with

6 information coming from other sites, and there should be no

7 internal -- there should be not be -- there should be no internal

8 inconsistencies and so on. In case of -- if there is an internal

9 inconsistency or difficulty to, let us say, to compare and so on, do you

10 still maintain the document or the tape?

11 A. Absolutely. Absolutely. We listened to everything, we analysed

12 everything, we read everything. And, you know, especially at the

13 beginning, but even throughout the process, there were times that we

14 didn't understand what we were hearing or what we were reading, that there

15 was just something that was new to us that would come up. Everything was

16 processed -- the material was processed in the same systematic pattern.

17 We didn't make any judgements about the content of the material; we just

18 processed it all. And then, of course, as the investigation continued and

19 as we learned more, sometimes what might have seemed to be irrelevant at

20 one moment made sense in the light of other things.

21 JUDGE RIAD: There, in fact, the final decision of all the

22 documents - I'm quoting you - the final decision of all the documents that

23 were included was not your own, but were you still seriously involved in

24 assessing, in the assessment of the documents?

25 A. Yes.

Page 8985

1 JUDGE RIAD: And you could -- you could eliminate what was not up

2 to the standard after awhile?

3 A. It wasn't necessarily what wasn't up to the standard. It was -- I

4 mean we included -- as I said, we included everything. So I'm not quite

5 clear what ...

6 JUDGE RIAD: Why did you mention that you have got several factors

7 in assessing the reliability? If these factors are not met with, what do

8 you do?

9 A. I'm still not sure that I understand your question.

10 JUDGE RIAD: You have to verify the reliability or not?

11 A. Well, as an entire -- as an entire set, for example, first we used

12 the printouts. Those were the documents that we were given first by the

13 army of Bosnia-Herzegovina. There were some 500 and -- almost 600 pages.

14 On each page there would have been mostly more than one -- more than one

15 conversation, sometimes several conversations. So we went through that

16 entire process of entering those within a specific date range. Actually,

17 all of those were entered because they were within July of 1995. Then we

18 went back to the notebooks and we started processing the notebooks. From

19 the notebooks then, we tried to match the notebooks up to the

20 conversations that we had already entered into our database and got

21 matches. And so every time we had a verbatim match of a document, a

22 printed document of what the army of Bosnia-Herzegovina said was -- what

23 they told us had been transcribed, when we found it with the notebook,

24 then we would match those up.

25 Additionally, when we received the material from the state

Page 8986

1 security service in Tuzla, we went through the same process of matching up

2 conversations again. Then when -- so there could conceivably be, say, a

3 couple of matches internally between printouts and notebooks and possibly,

4 but in few cases, tapes.

5 Then as we continued the process of analysis, we came across

6 conversations that were clearly the same conversation. In some cases, we

7 could verify that because it was the same date, but the times were very

8 similar. Not to the minute, but usually within five minutes. So then we

9 took those conversations and by running through the database again, we

10 would then link those conversations with the newly found conversations,

11 always working to match all of the information back together.

12 There was some material that we weren't able to -- that we didn't

13 find -- that we didn't have both printouts and notebooks for, but that

14 was, you know, always indicated as such in our records. And the dates,

15 also I mentioned that on the dates we were very -- I think very diligent

16 in ensuring that the dates were firm. Where we could confirm the dates,

17 we always noted that; and where we could not confirm the dates, we always

18 noted that as well. Then over time and continuing through this process,

19 we were, in many cases, able to confirm dates through the other documents,

20 either through receiving the notebooks or receiving material from the

21 CSB.

22 JUDGE RIAD: I understood that was your process. Now you have to

23 wait, of course, until you identify it.

24 You categorise, let's say, the reliability of your documents after

25 that? You say this is the first class reliable. The other one is -- in

Page 8987

1 case of doubt, you continue on searching and so on, and if you do not find

2 any consistency, you just rule it out?

3 A. No, we --

4 JUDGE RIAD: -- after awhile?

5 A. No. The database contains all of the information. There was

6 never anything that was eliminated.

7 JUDGE RIAD: Yes. Now, would you take anything on its face

8 value? For instance, in a tape, an intercept, they say, for instance, "I

9 am Mr. So-and-so talking to you. " Would you take that for granted or you

10 tried to verify if it corresponds to the truth?

11 A. This is where speaking with the intercept operators was very

12 helpful. Excuse me. They -- we had questions about that, but we noticed

13 that in looking at the material, if a person's name was mentioned in the

14 conversation, if one person addressed another person by their name or by

15 their rank or in some way, then -- this depended a little bit on the

16 operators, but generally what they would do is in the heading where you

17 have the participants they might say "X" but put the person's name in

18 parentheses.

19 I'm hesitating a little bit, because in other cases I believe, and

20 now it's been many months, almost a year since I've been doing this, but I

21 believe they might have written the name. If they got the name from the

22 conversation as a person directing a comment to someone else by their

23 name, then they would have written that name up in the header of that

24 conversation, and this is what we noticed. This is what I noticed from

25 the work that we conducted as well. If there was ever any doubt as to who

Page 8988

1 was speaking, there was absolute consistency in putting X and Y.

2 The other time that people -- that an operator might put a name in

3 parentheses is if he recognised the name. Because the operators listened

4 and got to know people's voices, they would never indicate that as a firm

5 identification, but they might indicate that the speaker could be a

6 particular person through voice recognition, and that would be designated

7 in parentheses.

8 JUDGE RIAD: May I just ask a peripheral question. Before coming

9 to the OTP, were you involved in the same kind of work?

10 A. No, I wasn't.

11 JUDGE RIAD: Because you have a Master's Degree from the School of

12 International Affairs.

13 A. That's right.

14 JUDGE RIAD: That's a school where I was a professor. We did not

15 used to teach this kind of thing.

16 A. No, in fact.

17 JUDGE RIAD: So what experience did you have before that?

18 A. Well, I didn't have any experience in dealing with intercepted

19 communications, certainly. My background is in international affairs, and

20 I worked in the field in the former Yugoslavia for a couple of years

21 during the war.

22 JUDGE RIAD: Thank you very much.

23 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Thank you very much, Judge Fouad

24 Riad, and especially for your testimony too.

25 Madam Judge Wald.

Page 8989

1 JUDGE WALD: Ms. Frease, just a couple of questions. One I think

2 you may have answered, but I just have to get it in the right context.

3 In the beginning, you said you translated the majority of

4 intercepts, mostly in terms of the time frame that you were especially

5 interested in, that week or two weeks in July. Why -- is it true that

6 there were some in those weeks that you didn't translate, and if so, why

7 not?

8 A. We translated -- when we first received the material in March of

9 1998 - that's the printout material - we translated everything, all of the

10 pages, every conversation.

11 JUDGE WALD: Now, when you were translating all the conversations,

12 and you said you put them all into the database, but then you also told us

13 that you kept sort of corroborating files like the one that you showed us,

14 for some or all, or how did you pick the ones that you kept corroborating

15 files? Just that you happened to come upon corroboration?

16 A. No. It was mostly based on the content of the conversation,

17 whether it appeared as if a particular piece of information within that

18 conversation seemed as if it was something that we might be able to

19 corroborate, like phone numbers or --

20 JUDGE WALD: Right. When you came upon particular conversations,

21 some might immediately, I assume, stand out in your own mind or anyone

22 else's as being important. In fact, you said that one reason that you

23 didn't consider the "Kill them all," one to be as important as others, I

24 think is what you said, but when you found those ones you did think were

25 important, did you have any system for immediately bringing them to the

Page 8990

1 attention of the people on the investigative task force or did you -- at

2 what point did those corroborating notebooks or your own feeling that

3 something was important get put into the process?

4 A. There wasn't a system per se, but we spoke every day.

5 JUDGE WALD: So in other words, if you came upon something that

6 you thought was really hot stuff, then you would communicate with somebody

7 in the task force.

8 A. That's correct.

9 JUDGE WALD: So you ended up having files for some --

10 corroborating files for some but not for others; is that right?

11 A. That's right.

12 JUDGE WALD: Did you have a corroborating file for the "Kill them

13 all"?

14 A. No.

15 JUDGE WALD: So you didn't think that was even important enough or

16 you didn't come across any corroboration?

17 A. That's right.

18 JUDGE WALD: One or both of the answers I proffered.

19 A. Right. That conversation didn't seem to contain anything that we

20 could corroborate independently.

21 JUDGE WALD: There were a lot of specifics in it. It was past the

22 two weeks that you said you concentrated on, but there were a lot of

23 specific things in there.

24 You said that you found it not as important as other conversations

25 that you came across in the intercepts. Can you, offhand, remember any

Page 8991

1 one you can cite to us that's already in evidence that you would have said

2 was more important?

3 A. I think and I hope I said that I didn't consider it to be more --

4 necessarily more important than other conversations.

5 JUDGE WALD: You just said, I think -- I don't have your quote,

6 but the impression left with me is you didn't think it was a top-level,

7 important conversation. You used the phrase: "There were others that

8 were more important."

9 A. Okay.

10 JUDGE WALD: I think.

11 A. Okay. I mean for me it fit within a sort of bundle of

12 conversations that were important. I can -- I can remember a few of

13 them.

14 JUDGE WALD: Well, even one or two, just so I get --

15 A. Sure. The 16th of July conversation in which at 1358 in the

16 afternoon, I think it was, in which 500 litres of D2 fuel were being

17 ordered to Pilica village, Lieutenant Colonel Popovic. There were the

18 conversations between -- on the 15th of July between Colonel Beara and

19 General Krstic which I considered to be important. There were a couple of

20 conversations later. There was one conversation later in the day, I think

21 at 2116 on the 16th, in which Lieutenant Colonel Popovic tries to report

22 back to General Krstic, who is unavailable, and therefore leaves him a

23 message that the work has been done or that the job is finished, I think

24 were the words.

25 JUDGE WALD: So is this a correct impression I'm getting, that is,

Page 8992

1 you were looking through -- you were interested in kind of down-to-earth,

2 possibly, factual proof of events that went on on particular days so that

3 when you hit an excerpt which said "Kill them all," even though some might

4 say that that had import in terms of attitude, intent, that sort of thing,

5 you didn't think that was as important?

6 A. You know, one thing that I thought was that it could have just

7 been military talk, people in the field. I mean I'm not in the military.

8 I've then been in the military.

9 JUDGE WALD: But you must have heard a lot of military intercepts

10 in your work.

11 Okay. So in other words, just to get rid of that particular --

12 you didn't do any prioritising of that in terms of you didn't report that

13 immediately to one of your investigative teammates and say, "Hey, we've

14 got kind of an important one here. You should listen and take care of

15 it"?

16 A. No. I mean we reported it right away.

17 JUDGE WALD: Well, I mean you put it in the database, I know, but

18 you didn't single it out for any kind of special attention or you did?

19 A. Well, yes. We talked about it because it wasn't -- I mean, what

20 was unusual about it was, you know, the specific content of that

21 conversation. So, yes, we talked about it right away.

22 JUDGE WALD: Okay. On a more general topic, you told us that your

23 corroboration file or you would try to put together in a file sometimes

24 things that corroborated stuff that was in the intercept itself and then

25 sometimes you would evaluate the intercept in terms of "Whether it was

Page 8993

1 consistent with what we knew about the case."

2 Now, did you -- my first question is: In your experience, did you

3 or the people that were working for you ever come across intercepts which

4 were not consistent with what you knew about the case, and if so, what

5 would you do about them? Would you make a note? Would you tell your

6 investigative fellow teams, "Hey, maybe you ought to be careful about this

7 one because it doesn't seem to gel with some other stuff that we've got"?

8 A. I never felt that there were any inconsistencies within the

9 material. There were certainly things that we didn't understand within

10 the material, and --

11 JUDGE WALD: But in all these intercepts, you never found any one

12 that you thought: Gee, this is odd. It just doesn't seem to gel with

13 what we know about what else is going on?

14 A. No.

15 JUDGE WALD: Okay. Were you -- when I asked you before, you know,

16 you were on the alert, obviously, for communications which would provide

17 evidence of what the team was investigating. What about if you came

18 across something, and did you ever come across something, that went the

19 other way, I mean, that seemed to be, if anything, exculpatory?

20 A. Yes.

21 JUDGE WALD: Yes what?

22 A. Yes. Yes. Well, I mean, there were some things -- for example,

23 there was earlier mention of where -- of General Zivanovic's whereabouts.

24 JUDGE WALD: Yes.

25 A. And that was something that, you know, was sort of -- that we

Page 8994

1 weren't -- we didn't quite know how to place for, you know, for some

2 time. And --

3 JUDGE WALD: Would you discuss that? If you came across something

4 and you thought: Gee, you know, this --

5 A. Yes.

6 JUDGE WALD: You would go to your mates --

7 A. Absolutely.

8 JUDGE WALD: -- your mates, and you'd say, "Well, gee, you better

9 be aware that there's this around --"

10 A. Absolutely. Absolutely.

11 JUDGE WALD: So did -- my last question: Did you at some

12 point -- you were keeping -- you were putting everything in the database,

13 you were occasionally talking to your -- well, maybe more than

14 occasionally talking to your investigative mates about things that

15 particularly aroused your attention, good or bad, as they came through the

16 process. Now, at the end of the process, when decisions were being made,

17 I guess, about what evidence might be culled for the proceeding, did they

18 ever come back to you? I mean, what did you do with your corroborative

19 files as they moved along? Say you had an intercept on day one, you put

20 it into the file -- into the database; as time went on, you found

21 collaborating evidence coming in, you kept a file on that, evidence coming

22 in. At some point did you input that cumulating knowledge back into the

23 investigative team so they could help evaluate the intercept, in light of

24 what you knew about it? They might know about it, but they might not know

25 all the same things you knew about it?

Page 8995

1 A. I'm sorry. I didn't understand your question.

2 JUDGE WALD: It's a very complicated question. You put the

3 material in the database as you translated it, you kept an ongoing

4 corroborative file so that if new information came which might have

5 corroborated that, it went into your corroborative file; right?

6 A. No. Actually, it was that we would keep -- the file consisted of

7 material within the intercepts that looked as if it might be possible to

8 corroborate, and not the reverse, if I've understood you well.

9 JUDGE WALD: Okay. But even if, even if -- yes. Even if that's

10 true, you would -- sometimes your file would develop as you went along. I

11 mean, you would file some new -- find some new intercepts that

12 corroborated the old ones or the telephone.

13 A. Uh-huh.

14 JUDGE WALD: So did you ever, at the end of the process, after you

15 had the corroboration files, go back to the team and give them the benefit

16 of that corroboration so that they could put it into their evaluation of

17 the intercepts?

18 A. No.

19 JUDGE WALD: You just kept them, the corroboration file, on the

20 shelf, or what?

21 A. Well, you see -- right.

22 THE INTERPRETER: Could the witness please pause before giving an

23 answer to give the interpreter's a chance.

24 JUDGE WALD: It's such a privilege for me to speak to somebody in

25 my own language. Go ahead.

Page 8996

1 A. This file was a little hanging file, and when we would find

2 something, we would make a photocopy of it and just stick it in there.

3 Doing -- you know, doing the third-party corroboration was not -- it was a

4 part of the whole project, but relatively speaking, it was a very small

5 part of the whole --

6 JUDGE WALD: Let me just sum up in the final question. Did they,

7 the other members of the investigative team - the investigators, the

8 lawyers, whoever else who were going to finally put together the case, did

9 they ever come back to you on the intercepts and say, "Well, we're

10 planning to use certain intercepts. We want to ask you about certain

11 ones" or once you'd gotten them into the database it was all done with,

12 from your point of view?

13 A. Well, I guess I helped to identify those that were most pertinent

14 to the case.

15 JUDGE WALD: Okay. All right. Thank you.

16 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Thank you very much, Madam Judge

17 Wald. You're really privileged, because you can speak your own language.

18 I never have that chance.

19 Ms. Frease, I too have a few questions for you. So at the

20 beginning there was your project of intercepts, with certainly objectives

21 in mind - organise the material, translate it, file it - and you had a

22 series of resources to do it. You mentioned translators in the field. I

23 must admit that I don't quite understand who those people were and what

24 they did for your project. "Field translators," could you explain the

25 concept, the notion, who they were?

Page 8997

1 A. Sure. We used them at the very beginning of the project, again in

2 spring 1998, when we received the first printed material and were very

3 eager -- the team was very eager to know what that material contained. So

4 for the sake of expediency, I put together a small group of translators

5 for -- twice - it might have been three times, but two or three times - a

6 small group of translators who sat down in a room, and I was with them,

7 and just started working through, from page 1 through page 564, I think.

8 And so that material was translated in that way and provided the

9 investigative team with an ability to begin to look at that material.

10 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Thank you. Another question.

11 You mentioned, in connection with certain problems that you felt, you said

12 two or three conversations which were not the same but which were recorded

13 by different operators. Could you please explain a little the type of

14 situation you are referring to?

15 A. Certainly. There were -- the 15th of July there was a

16 conversation between General Krstic and Colonel Beara, and that

17 conversation was recorded, I believe, by three different operators. Each

18 conversation varied slightly, but there were enough elements in those

19 conversations to allow us to say with certainty that it was the same

20 conversation but recorded by different operators and from at least two

21 locations, from two locations.

22 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] And how did that situation fit

23 into your objective of corroborating the conversations or to make sure

24 that they were consistent?

25 A. I'm not sure I understand your question.

Page 8998

1 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] You said that there were three

2 recordings of the same conversation but that there were slight differences

3 between them; they were not exactly identical. The fact that they were

4 not exactly the same, did that cause problems for you to be able to assess

5 them regarding the validity of the conversation itself, the message it

6 contained, the content?

7 A. One conversation might provide more information, an additional

8 name that another operator wasn't able to hear that someone else could

9 hear. You know, what we were most interested in was just ensuring that we

10 had matched everything up together.

11 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] So could it be said that at the

12 end, the fact that they were not absolutely identical could prove to be a

13 test of the content because one provided something that the other did

14 not? Am I understanding you correctly, Ms. Frease? Very well. There's

15 another question. You spoke about the State Security Service in Tuzla.

16 You spoke about the SSB [as interpreted] in Tuzla. You also spoke about

17 the SDB in Tuzla. I don't know what that is. It is on page 31, line 10

18 of the LiveNote. What are they? SDB, what is the SDB in Tuzla?

19 A. It's the State Security Service in Tuzla.

20 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] The same thing?

21 A. It is. CSB generally refers to a larger area that might contain

22 several SDBs, but yes, it's the same.

23 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] So this is one situation where

24 three things apply to the same thing, tell us the same thing.

25 A. Right.

Page 8999

1 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] I have another question for

2 you. Not all the intercepts were translated. You focused basically on a

3 time frame beginning the 10th of July. So the beginning was the 10th of

4 July, and up to when?

5 A. We did it in phases, because we weren't sure how long the process

6 was going to take, and so that was a place where we did prioritise them.

7 So approximately from the 10th of July to the 20th of July, but it might

8 have even been the 10th to the 18th. I don't exactly remember. After we

9 processed all of that material, then we expanded the whole process to

10 include all of July, from the beginning of July through -- through the

11 beginning of August, especially after, you know, after we discovered the

12 conversation from the 2nd of August.

13 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] If we try to establish a

14 relationship between those dates and the indictment, how would you see

15 it? If we compare the dates that you focused on and the indictment, what

16 link could you establish, if there is any?

17 A. Could you tell me what you're referring to in the indictment? I

18 don't --

19 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] The indictment, as you know,

20 mentions dates. There is a time, a time period when the facts occurred.

21 So my question is whether the dates that you focused on have anything to

22 do with the dates referred to in the indictment, the dates when the crimes

23 were allegedly committed.

24 A. Yes. We focused on -- as I said, July, but then for the situation

25 of the reburials we looked at notebooks from that period of time to see

Page 9000

1 whether there was anything obvious from that time period. But I don't

2 recall -- we didn't -- you know, the analysts -- the language people who

3 looked at those periods didn't find anything that appeared to be related.

4 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Very well. Another question,

5 and that will be the last. You had this lengthy experience with the

6 processing of intercepts. You worked on the establishment of co-relations

7 among documents and their corroboration, and if I were to ask you to

8 fabricate a message like this one, "Kill them all," what would you do?

9 How would you go about it, make a montage of such an intercept? I'm

10 asking you to do that, and then I'm asking you how you would go about it.

11 A. That's a -- well, I'd have to start back at the beginning with the

12 typed records and with the notebooks, and I guess, you know -- I mean, you

13 would have to fill an entire notebook with fabricated material. In terms

14 of making a recording, I don't have any of that kind of background, so I

15 really -- I -- I don't know how I would do it. I don't know how it would

16 be done. Cutting and pasting, I guess, things together, but I -- it's not

17 really the area that I -- it's not my area of expertise.

18 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] So in any event, you would have

19 to de-codify a message. If you were to have to work in the opposite

20 direction, how many persons or what kind of expertise would you need to do

21 it? Or you don't even want to think about it? It wouldn't interest you?

22 A. Well, I don't -- I don't feel qualified to know how to do that,

23 since I wasn't someone who was actually participating in the

24 transcription, in the listening, in the recording, and all that.

25 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Very well. But there is a

Page 9001

1 possibility of you going back to your school and teaching these things.

2 That is why Judge Riad has a question for you now.

3 JUDGE RIAD: Ms. Frease, it is just an answer which you gave to

4 the president which I would like to understand more and have the benefit

5 of your experience. You mentioned, in particular, three conversations

6 between General Krstic and Beara, and each conversation varied slightly

7 from the other. Would that be considered as a sign of inconsistency or of

8 authenticity? How would you take it?

9 A. As internal consistency.

10 JUDGE RIAD: Internal consistency?

11 A. Mm-hmm.

12 JUDGE RIAD: Now then, in that case they should be the same as the

13 same day, same hour?

14 A. Very close.

15 JUDGE RIAD: What should you check typically because you said they

16 are varied, they are different?

17 A. Right, but usually off within a minute or two, a couple of

18 minutes.

19 JUDGE RIAD: The variation would be what, in words, in -- or just

20 in the time, as you said?

21 A. It would be in the time but it would also be in the substance of

22 the text, because depending on where the operators were recording, where

23 they were listening from, sometimes one signal came in stronger than

24 another signal. And so some people would hear one part of a conversation

25 better than they would hear another conversation. And by putting these

Page 9002

1 things together, you know, we could come up with a good idea of what the

2 whole conversation was about.

3 JUDGE RIAD: So that's what you call the internal consistency?

4 A. Right. I mean, knowing that -- having people, the same people

5 identified, having the same subject matter discussed, on the same day, at

6 the same time. But we were always extremely sure before we made these

7 kinds of -- before we would confirm that it was the same conversation, we

8 had to be absolutely sure that it was the same conversation, and never

9 made a match that we were unsure about. If we were unsure about it, we

10 didn't match it.

11 JUDGE RIAD: Thank you very much.

12 A. You're welcome.

13 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Ms. Frease, you have just

14 completed your testimony here. Thank you very much for your contribution,

15 which has assisted us a great deal, both us, the Defence, and the

16 Prosecution, and we wish you a safe journey home and success in your

17 work. Thank you very much.

18 THE WITNESS: Thank you.

19 [The witness withdrew]

20 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] Mr. Harmon, I think you have

21 some documents that you wish to tender.

22 MR. HARMON: That's correct, Mr. President. We would move for

23 admission Prosecutor's Exhibit 863.

24 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] And the Defence. Mr. Visnjic,

25 what is your comment?

Page 9003

1 MR. VISNJIC: [Interpretation] Mr. President, we have no objection.

2 JUDGE RODRIGUES: [Interpretation] So Exhibit -- Prosecutor Exhibit

3 863 is admitted into evidence.

4 Mr. Harmon, what next?

5 MR. HARMON: My next witness is Mr. Kruszewski, and for that,

6 Mr. President, I would ask for a closed session. I will explain in this

7 private session the reason why I'm making that request.

8 [Trial Chamber confers]

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