[5] He was the Jasenovac concentration camp military chaplain for some time until Aloysius Stepinac sent him in mid-1943 to Rome as the second unofficial Ustaše representative.
[6] Ante Pavelić hid for two years, from 1945 to 1948, in Italy under the protection of Draganović and the Vatican, before surfacing in Buenos Aires in Argentina.
[7] Through his ratline, with assistance from the U.S. Counterintelligence Corps (CIC), Draganović played a major role in helping notorious Nazi war criminals like Klaus Barbie flee from Europe.
[10] Draganović was accused of laundering the Ustaše's treasure of jewellery and other items stolen from war victims in Croatia.
[12] According to the CIA, Draganović was "not amenable to control, too knowledgeable of unit personnel and activity, demanded outrageous monetary tribute and U.S. support of Croat organizations as partial payment for cooperation.
After World War II, he lived in Italy and Austria gathering evidence of communist crimes committed in Yugoslavia.
[16] He was supposed to "tell-all", name his colleagues and like-minded people, hand his archive over to Tito's agents, make some positive remarks about Communist Yugoslavia and in return, Belgrade would waive judicial condemnation and imprisonment.