POLITICAL SITUATION IN YUGOSLAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007700700016-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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'dine attitude of the M1.1.4_tja and UDB toward the Yugoslav pct ale, ry rcluciir ;
,,he so-called :a. e. c?tiorary elements.,. in reported to be milder in tone,
while at the same tizn their a#titade toward Cominforl fists has incaeaied
n si+arpness. The prestige of Tito's re iam s since the arrival of aid
from the United States has r:i.sen somewhat among the population.
(8overrmt nh officials, specifically and especially Cosa, Pi jade, have re-
portedly been meeting .th imprisoned, opposition chiefs in the Pozarevae
Penitentiary in S:aederevon Lax,ica Markovic, a lawyer, and 1)ragoijub
Jovano .c, a Serb peasant leader, who are Imprisoned theree,are reportec].y
being consulted concerninpg the new Yugoslav penal coder, Rumors t ersis'l.
that Mark ovic will be released from prison. Neither Jove, o is nor
< arkovic is required to perform forced labor H '.ffiey paring projects for the go' -e ent and are spend their t.Ulle ,re,.
newspapers permitted to read the,
This document is he?eby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in acco, d ' ,ce -with the
letter of 16 Octo"er 1 73 f ?om the
Director of Ce:ifral fin`e'. nice to the
Archivist of to Un'ted v:ates.
Next Rev;ew Date: 2008
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