YUGOSLAV COMMUNISTS IN BRASIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300350004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 9, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Brazil/ Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Yugoslav Communists inn Brazil
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1. The following individuals are considered to be the leading Yugoslav Communists
in I3razilt
IN FOR MAT*ftME PORT
a. Luke Belamnrie. Belamaric is the First Secretary of the Yugoslav Legation
in Rio de Janeiro ani wac reportedly given the task of directing Yugoslav
Corrriunist activities in Brazil.
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e. Francisco Paternost. Honorary Director of the Yugoslav White Cross and one
of the leaders of the Yugoslav colony in Sao Paulo, he reportedly sent
Tito a gift of gold bars valued at approximately 910,000. The Yugoslav
Goveratirrent awarded Paternost a decoration in recognition of the .gift.
f. Francisco Bartul Kolinac. Kolinac is a shoemaker in the pay of Belamaric.
He is known to have solicited funds for the benefit of the Communist Party
of Brazil (PCB).
g. Carlos Pavlich. A printer by trade, he recently arrived in Brazil on a
special mission. He was reportedly wanted by the British in Italy, but
evaded them.
2. The following Yugoslav Communist leaders were deported from Brazil to Yugoslavia
b. tdaxiio !.3oanco Dagatella. A clerk in the passport section of the Yugoslav
Legation, Bagatella acts as an assistant to Belamaric. He is the official
courier for the Legation between Rio and Sao Paulo.
c. Belem (fnu). This individual is a wealthy building contractor in Sao Paulo
who is one of the chief financial supporters of the Yugoslav Communist Party
in that city.
d. A.M,tonio and Josefina Kaduna (also received 4tadunec). Kaduna is.a con-
struction engineer who also contributes large sums to the Yugoslav
Communist Party in Sao Paulo. Josefina, his wife, i- president of the
Yugoslav !4bite Grose in Sao Paulo. Their home serves as headquarters for the
Yugoslav Legation personnel when they are in Sao Paulo, as well as a meeting
place for menbers of the Yugoslav :Jhite Cross and the Yugoslav Communist
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by the Brazilian authorities, or departed of their own accords
a. Francisco Mirosevic Pace. The leader of Yugoslav Communiats in Brazil,
Pace was responsible for the repatriation of 600 Yugoslavs during the latter
half of 1948. He cos arrested several tines by the T3razilian authorities
for Communist ?i^tivities anrl mamborship in the PCB during its illegality.
b. Francisco Janetic Malon ja, right-hand ran to Pace.
a. Nicola Jojslco Surjan, his wife Maria, anI his brother, Antonio Jojsko.
d. Joao Przinic Posnije.
e. Ivan? Petar, and Ante Balija.
All the above were deported.
f. Katarina Gavaranioh Quinca Sijun: A woman informant of Belamaric, left
voluntarily.
g. Matheus Franolovich. A former member of the Sao Paulo Guarder Civil with
twenty years service,, Franolovich left Brazil, with his iiife and Brazilian-
bort? children. Ile wan a. frequent caller at the home of. Josefina Kaduna.
It Is expected that Franolovich will return to Brazil on a special mission.
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