EMIGRATION OF YUGOSLAV JEWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300370005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Four thouster~d ~:wo k~~andred Yugoslav Ja~~rs saiiod fro~x Fiume to Israel candor
the Auspices of tho Join-b t7astrib~xtican Cc~mmittoo and t3~e lsra?13. Gov?rnment
during 'Joac~mb?r 198. The c~:~i.grants worn zita~.nly m3.dd!le-class elements, with
no real role in tho`~nsw Yu~ ~c~slr~via'R~
2A Thz~ Joint vi,st~?ibutxon Corrc~:dttev is z~.o~v exaoountaris~; s?~riazes diff3.cu~.tic~s
in reamer Jews from othar "Iron Cuxtain" countrios. It Ys felt in
sorz? guax?tt~rs ~thr~t tha Yugoslav Gov-orx~nt has pex~eaitted this emigration,
becs.ust~ it was unahla to rally those elemc~~ats around a "natiorrQl" resin?,anoe
and bac~ausa of the considerable nuu~ber of Je,~a.sh daf?atore frc~- tlzc~
Yugoslav trade agranoies and m3.ssions abroad.
3. Thr?e thousand edciitional Yugoslav Jow~ are caxpected to be ~vaou3tFid ~.n
Israeli ships from Yugoslav ;ports bti~ithin the n?~ct tYes~eo r.-oxathso
4. A eertai.n `:Ca~eahtQnhetz'i;, who was born ix~ Rurr~nia, is ~Chn Israeli represezx-
tstive assigned to E~sterzt: ~:urope for expediting the razreoval of J~~ra
fo Israel. ~s tra~rr~is fraquentl,y throui;hout tha satellite coutstrie~t
and repor~a regularl~r ~a i;ho Israeli r?prssentative (unidr~ntifi?d~
3n Praguo~;
This document is hereby r~
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