Houston, We Have a Problem!

What happened to you?

Some person from USA called me,

claiming to be my father.

Ivan Pavi.

You know what? I've lived my whole

life without a father.

I thought that he died.

I mean ...

I used to visit his grave

with his mother.

I think this is going to be a very

interesting journey. -Very interesting.

Even more so because I

haven't been there for 50 years.

Is Nataa coming to Pag?

-Yes, we'll meet there.

Great. I'm very glad.

-Yes.

Is it arranged? -Yes, it's all arranged.

I became a part of an engineer group,

which worked on development of

module for a multi-person crew.

as a part of Yugoslav Space Program.

I was assigned to a team of officers for

a counterintelligence protection

of this programme.

We had to evict quite a few villages

so that inhabitants wouldn't

work on nearby fields

and tourists wouldn't record

and take pictures.

When we enter, I'll show you,

that the 50 next meters, whole ...

Oh' it's the police. No problem.

We'll talk with them.

Are you ours? -Yes. I was hired to take

them through this underground facility.

I'm familiar with the situation.

-What is this? You are?

He's from USA. -American.

-Yes. -What's with the cameras?

We're filming something. Not right now.

Check this.

-What is the American doing here?

He's a ... -Historian.

What is he saying? -That he's a historian

who is interested in this place as a part

of the story about the

space programme ... -Okay.

We're here. -We had

complete equipment for testing,

but the facility hadn't been ready yet.

-It was still under construction.

After a few months of work

in space programme,

Tito unexpectedly

visited Object 505.

Visits like this were documented by the

counterintelligence for internal use.

Exploration and conquest

of space and other planets

is about the collective effort of

inhabitants of the world

to discover what kind

of neighbours they have.

Tito demanded that

the work be sped up

and our engineers

promised him that.

Our project was supposed to be

better than the soviet Sputnik.

The realized project was called Triglav 1.

Our three-stage rocket incorporated

numerous solutions by Potonik 'Noordung'.

Radar, take over the control.

We're losing visual contact.

Finished rocket flew all

the way to stratosphere.

But we couldn't conceal the

landing of the module.

It landed in international

waters at the Italian border

Our ship encountered

an Italian vessel

which probably recorded the fact

that our ship sailed into Italian waters.

Because of that, the Italians were guessing

what our military ship was doing there.

Piglet survived the launching.

Hello? Nataa.

-iga, what is the number?

Yes, it's me, Ivan.

Everything is alright, we have arrived.

I'm in Croatia.

See you in Pag. Bye!

We'll see ... I think it's somewhere

around here, I don't remember well.

Yes, I think this is the building.

Exactly, it was smaller than others.

After the test launch of three-stage rocket

planning of a larger rocket began.

Money was, however, running out

and development was lagging.

Space programme was

apparently too expensive.

This was a big blow to us,

although we were

in a way prepared for it.

Yugoslavia would have to

take out loans.

The creditors always demand complete

documentation and financial plans.

Telling international creditors that we

were developing a space programme

was unfeasible.

Calculations of our

financial experts showed

that Yugoslavia would be

in danger of bankruptcy.

Major Hafner ordered me

to significantly embellish the report

meant for the Americans.

Although our programme was

going well it wasn't functional.

Is it true reports on Yugoslav space

programme were falsified

and shown in a better light?

Was this your order?

No. Reports on

Yugoslav space programme

were always realistic.

The scientist would perhaps

occasionally exaggerate a bit.

But they were never

intentionally falsified.

Buyer-to-be mustn't

have been deceived.

I was falsifying sketches,

embellishing the results of test launches.

It is possible that certain technical

details were presented in a multisided way.

We reckoned NASA representatives

would be excited to come to Yugoslavia.

And so they came.

NASA delegation was

impressed by our programme.

Tito decided to offer the programme to

the Americans for a certain sum of money.

Americans would, as is the

custom in capitalistic states,

try to lower the price,

but we wouldn't relent.

We demanded 3 billion dollars.

The public didn't know what

Tito received this money for.

This is the Pag island,

I was born here.

I got married here and

now I'm here again.

Tomorrow you'll be seeing your daughter

for the first time since ... -First time.

I have never seen her,

I don't even have her photo.

I don't know how she looks,

but I think we'll sniff each other out.

My daughter. -Good day.

-Martina, pleasure to meet you.

Ivan, are you alright? -Yes.

Matej, will you give him a hand?

-No problem.

This is my daughter Ana,

doctor of science.

Since 1983 she had been working

for Yugoslav Security Service.

Later she worked for Slovenian Security

Service, this occupation runs in the family.

That's right.

Tito was a proper operative.

He could sell something

while keeping it a complete secret.

Everything located at the Institute -

documentation, sketches, equipment,

was to be given to the Americans.

They came up with a plan to transport

the rocket and module

and everything else to a neutral country.

That country was to be Morocco.

Tito's fleet served as a

great disguise

and we managed to cross the

Mediterranean Sea without problems

although Italians and French were

monitoring the sea traffic

and also inspecting vessels.

The sea was calm and we encountered

no problems on the way.

At some point, Tito visited the adjacent

cargo ship via a pulley.

Maybe his wife Jovanka was bothering him

and he chose to withdraw.

Jovanka could be quite annoying at times.

Especially when dealing with us,

members of Security Service.

We can go together for a bit

but then I'm going onward alone.

Where are you going?

-I'll go fulfill my father's wish.

What is it? Am I asking too much?

I'm visiting someone.

-Okay. Your father's friend perhaps?

He's not his friend, he used to be

his operative contact.

I'll call you. -We'll be here.

Let us know when you're finished.

Deal? -Yes. Bye!

Tito stayed in Morocco

for two days.

In this time, all the cargo

had to be unloaded from the ships.

That didn't happen in Casablanca

but rather in a nearby US military base.

In a covert way. Americans loaded

the crates into their ships

and transported them to USA.

We realize that growth and

development is only possible in peace

and that peace is a prerequisite

for existence of socialism,

international cooperation

and global advancement.

Moroccan King couldn't directly

ask Tito and his staff

what were they doing. Intelligence

agencies don't function that way.

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