INCREASED INTERNAL CONTROLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007500820008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
S-E-C-R-E-T
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
1. While the Yugoslav Government has, on the surface, relaxed controls over
the individual, it has resorted to a system which in practice exerts
tighter control over the populace. To control an enterprise or associa-
tion, the Federation of Communists of Yugoslavia (FCY) pickss.:out'.keliable
Party members and presents them to the enterprise or association prior to
an election of officials. FCY cell members in the enterprise, by force
of threats, pressure the non-Party members of the enterprise to vote for
their slate of officials. At the same time they prevent non-Party mem-
bers from presenting themselves as candidates for the election. Thus,
a predetermined set of Party members are elected to managerial positions
and are in a position to effectively control the activities of the mem-
bers of the enterprise or association.
2. The authority of the directors of commercial enterprises aas been
strengthened considerably during recent months. This resulted from
the fact that the Workers' Councils started to interpret the law literally
and had begun to act as if they were the actual owners of the factories
and enterprises. Since it -is.: a very rare case where the Communists are
a majority in any factory or enterprise, the regime was faced with the
possibility of losing control of the factories and enterprises. The
regime's solution to this problem was to invest the directors with more
authority, chapgigg any director who did not comply with the directives
of the FCY.
Activity of the FCY cells in enterprises and institutions has been
intensified since November-December 1954. Before that time, the cells
use to meet once a month; now they meet once a week. Evidence of their
intensified activity is shown by the fact that Party members back the
decisions of the director of their enterprise and exert psychological
pressure on the workers and members of the Workers' Council who criti-
cize or oppose the decision of the director.
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