TENSION INSIDE YUGOSLAVIA; COUNTERMEASURES TO COMINFORM SABOTAGE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002900100010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION , T'C0NTROL - u,::. OF ICIALS 01MY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUTR'( Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Tension Inside Yugoslavia; Countermeasures
to Cominform Sabotage
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These incidents have created an atmosphere of uncertainty felt by the
Government and the entire populace. No hope exists that Marshal Tito,
without outside aid, can overcomthe sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia by
the Cominform6
Hungarian and Bulgarian frontiers which
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to During the past three weeks there has been a state of extreme tension
throughout Yugoslavia. There have been continual incidents along-the
2~ Measures taken by the Yugoslav Government to counteract the organization
of Cominform sabotage are so drastic that they constitute an intolerable
burden on the economic structure of the country. These measures reach
into every small village of the land. The Yugoslav armed forces and the
police are in a constant state of alert. Rail, sea and road trai50X1-HUM
under the strictest control.
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.The UDB is currently concentrating almost exclusively on internal political
security. It recently succeeded in neutralizing 11 Cominformist groups
working inside Yugoslavia under the Soviet agent, Pavel Smirnov, who was
directing sabotage operations from Bulgaria. Among those arrested were 1l
members of the Yugoslav Army (unidentified) who were immediately shot.,
while the remainder numbering 30, will soon be tried.
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6a members of the armed forces and the police found guilty of anti-
Government activity are interrogated, and secretly executed to avoid
adverse publicity.
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