PRO-SOVIET COMMUNISTS ARRESTED IN MACEDONIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600260342-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 342
• Publication Date: October 26, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC`?Y-- ' "R'EPORT
SUBJECT Biographical - Political arrestor
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PUBLISHED Wee2}ly newspaper
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PUBLIWr1ED Sofia
DATE
PUBLISHED 20 Aug 1949
LANGUAGE Serbo-Croatian
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
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donia is raging in full force. After arresting the entire Central Council of
United Labor Unions of 1fauedonin, they began to arrest tunny old and honest
Cammuniat internationalists and other patriots faithful to the USSR and to the
international aclidtrity of the democratic peoples. Those arrested are sub-
jeotod to tortures unequaled oven by the inquisition of the Gestapo.
Other comrades are sent to various Yugoslav concentration camps in which
former gendarme of prewar Yugoslavia, followers of Medic and Mihajlovic, and
collaborators are employed as guards.
Uzunovsti, faithful servant of Rankovic, acts brutally not only toward the
arrested but also toward the families of arrested, exiled, and killed comrades,
holds them it jail without cause; and deprives them of means of aupport.
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Pavel Si. ateReventy years old, veil-imown fighter for the future of the
Macedonian people. Re participated in the Salonikf affair of 1903, and as a
result %is sente-oed tc 101 years and exiled to Africa.
After .be liberatiou of Macedonia, S%tev beer:se HL:?. ter of Justice and a
member of the Presidium of the People's Skupstina of Macedonia. Because of his
great love for the USSR, as veil as became of h:a criticism and protests against
the present Macedonian leaders for their anti-Soviet and anti-Bulgarian policy
and the terror which they are conducting in Macedonia, he was arrested in 1948,
but after protests of citizens he was med. Nov this brilliant fighter is
again in the Rankovic-Uzunoveki torture chambers.
Mire Anaetasov. Faithful son of the working class and the Macedonian
people. He is well known among he younger generation of Macedonian Co munists
as a fearless fighter against Tltolau and for lasting friendship with the Soviet
Union and the Bulgarian people. About 40 years old, he ban fought for more than
25 years.in the ranks of the working class. In prover Yugoslavia, he was arrested
many time, beaten, sentenced, to long imprisonment, and held in the notorious
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jail at Sremake Mitrovica. During the occupation, he was condemned to death by
a Bulgarian monarcho-fascist court, but later his sentence was commuted to life
imprisonment.
After the liberation of liacadonia, because of his uncompromising attitude
toward the policy of Tempo, Bolleeveki, and other Tito men, he was appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium so that he would be far away and not in-
fluence others. He remained there until September 1948, when he was recalled
to Belgrade and detained by Bankovic. lie wee temporarily placed at the dis-
position of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Macedonia, then
appointed one of the vice-chairmen of the Planning Cosoaiesion, and later be-
awe rieputy Minister of Labor of Macedonia. Ranko,ic's Sanizariee arrested
his as he was departing for Zagreb, where he was taking his wife for an operation.
No one knows his present whereabouts.
Hiroo Begd.no. Consistent and fearless fighter for the protection of the
working class, wall known in Macedonia end especially in Vales, where he was born.
Was chief secretary of the Yugoslav Ministry of Mines and member of the Party
committee of federal establishments in Belgrade.
Before the war, he had been arrested, beaten and sentenced to forced labor
at the Sremska Mitrovica prison. Twice be was sent to the "Bilece" camp in
Hecegovina.
He woe expelled.from the Party Sa August 1948 because of his internationiiet
views. He was arrested once, but later freed. He in now in the "GlevnJaca" fail
in Belgrade, where he has suffered unheard-of tortures.
ni. ,.it. ..,A twn ,ehildren have been banished.
Dime Medal Mitre,. Assistant federal public prosecutor in Belgrade. He
was the organisational secretary of the SkoplJe City Ccamittea of the Party during
the war. Be Viaa gent to Belgrade in 1945 because he disapproved of the nationalist
policy of Tempo and Boliaevski.
Scum ltfreno, Murkin. Re was unjustly convicted in 1945 for graft, actually
because of his sympathy toward tae Soviet Union. The Tito authorities did not
have the courage then to convict people publidly of friendship toward the Soviet
Union and bad to manufacture trials for graft, collaborating with the enemy, etc.
Nov the Tito authorities have announced that he is a "Soviet agent."
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