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February 14, 2001 

SARAJEVO--(AP) - An unannounced inspection of a military base and a nearby building in a Bosnian-Croat controlled town revealed that the facilities might have been used to eavesdrop on international officials, NATO and U.N. officials said Tuesday.

NATO troops and U.N. police officers raided the headquarters of a Bosnian Croat army brigade and a nearby privately owned building in the southern town of Livno on Saturday and Sunday. Sunday's search of the building, used for meetings of international organizations and NATO officials, revealed that Bosnian Croat intelligence service agents had been operating inside.

"Evidence of the activities of another agency operating in the facility was discovered," said Capt. Susan Gray, the spokeswoman for NATO in Bosnia, alluding to the intelligence service.

The United Nations international police "was concerned about a possible eavesdropping being conducted from that office against representatives of the international community," said the U.N. spokesman in Bosnia, Doug Coffman.

"It was apparent that the office has been recently cleansed of material which may have been incriminating," he said. But "we were able to find some documents, files and floppy discs which are currently being reviewed."

Previous similar raids of Bosnian Croat facilities elsewhere have come up with evidence of spy activities, like wiretapping devices and other equipment.

About 20,000 NATO-led peacekeepers are stationed in Bosnia to enforce the 1995 peace accord that ended the war between Muslims, Croats and Serbs.

Bosnian Croats, led by their nationalist party, the Croat Democratic Union, are currently at odds with international officials charged with implementing the provisions of the peace agreement.

The Croat Democratic Union wants to split away parts of Bosnia mostly populated by Croats and set up a separate ministate. Bosnian Croats currently share half of Bosnia in a federation with Muslims. The other half of the country is made up of the Bosnian Serb republic.