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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008201080008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 21, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEtLUGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY Tugoslavia
DATE OF INFO
PLACE ACQUIR
DATE ACQUIRE
DATE DISTR. 21 September 1955
NO. OF PAGES 2
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1. The Yugoslav ooeeuns s are a device of Via* President ldvard
iardelj aimed at better organising Party control in oortaia
econamic areas, while at the seMe time giving local authorities
the responsibility of assuring the success of economic enter-
prises end the incomes of the Laborers, It would seam that
this is a move toward deoentralisatias, bat this is so only in
a purely adsixd trative sense. In reality the new bagger
aoalmw al orgaaisaticas will facilitate control from the center.
Interprisss previously owned by the republics will now be
controlled directly by the oa^ unes. O I17 a few enterprises
will main under the ---at of the republics, and only a
few mde- du n$ federal osutre11 for emsaple, the atamio
instlute im' '!loin. bosses - suffered by the ssterprises will
be covered by the oaeseues in most oases, with only occasional
aid by the blics or the Federal Oove*uest. The standard
for the division of financial cutler will be as follows,
Federal Gororiamest as 50 percent, republics ? 35 percent,
oermaaes - 15 percent.
2. Under the new systo, the Part re overt control is exercised
through instructions given to the ooommic section. These
instructirons emanate from the aoonmsio Osemdttee in the Federal
ZxsouttLvs Council, pass through the republic, city end district
organs and end at the sanagemsnt and woriars council of the
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enterprise. In contrasts, the Partye a covertcontrol is gxtrntaelf
rigid and is exercised directly through Party organs. TM final
decision is aide by the Execatiue Committee of the Federation of
Coraunists of ngmslauia (IC!), Own passed through the lartf
haierarohq down to the basic Party cells of each ecenoaio unit.
The can then makes the rsspectivo workers council accepts, apply
and carry out the decisions of th} Party. The final controlling
element is exercised by the economic UDB organs which rqa, front
the Federal UDB dean to the saall,st econcaic limit. TWO to
all'outward appearances. all decisicas are made by the peoples,
i.e,& the worker council; bat in iIW the workers ceWacil is
merely a tool carrying out the Party's decisions.
The cosmos &n now be responsible for first making their
particular areas self-supporting, and secondly for aakitg them,
snrplwpredacing; hence the fight aowng the different oosaarntes
as to who viii obtain the most prpfitsblo enterprises aqd sha
viii be forced to take the least profitable. At presents, these
unprofitable enterprisess, ~>aait~ are IV parblent of
self-supports, are being allocated to the tall unimportant
indepentdent communes.
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