INTERNAL POLITICAL SITUATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900050010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Zaplonage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which to any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Internal Political Situation
DATE OF INFO.
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17 May 1955
REFERENCES
1. Discipline in the Federation of Communists of Yugoslavia (FCY) is decreas-
ing. There is confusion in the minds of the Party leaders because the
Executive Committee can not agree on consistent Party and governmental
policies. This is the reason that the top level Party leaders, under
pressure of current events, are giving contradictory public statements
on the same matter. Furthermore, ethnic animosity among the Party leaders
is very strong and public.
2. Aleksandar Rankovic is considered as Tito's devoted friend, sincere collab-
orator and his successor. However, Edvard Kardelj is the absolute master
in Slovenia and enjoys the support of nearly all the Slovenes. He has the
leading position in the FCY organization as the Party dogmatist. He is
energetically pushing Communism in the country's administration and
economy. His influence is increasing because he is supported in his
activity by the majority of the war Partisans and old Party members as
well as by all the Slovenes who hold important positions in the Army,
UDB and the government's administration and economy.
Moss Pijade will be discharged from all Party and
governmental functions in the near future because he is against Kardelj's
internal policies. Pijade recently had an open conflict with Kardelj when
the former was attempting to secure the allocation of more credits for the
Serbian economy.
STATEEV
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