EXODUS OF THE BORDER POPULATION FROM THE VOJVODINA; ECONOMIC SITUATION IN YUGOSLAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100660007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 18, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL IN Ltf E AGE iCY
I F ATI 9 REPORT
COUNTRY Yugosla?,vi.
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
I'codus of the Border Population from the Vojvodina;
conor is gituation in Yugoslavia
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18 July 1951
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SUPPLEMENT 10
REPORT NO.
1. Residents of the border area of the Vojvodina are reported to be going to
the J varracT region frith a view to establishing themselves there, and roving
at.y from the border zone. Peasants in the Vojvodina, whose property has
been divided by the Yugoal av u ani>an border are prohibited by Rumanian border
rds from visiting their land in Rum xian territory (sic). The situation
along the entire Yugoslav border in the Vojvodina is tense,, and border
incidents frequently occur.
2. Yugoslavia, is reported to be undergoing in addition to a serious agricultural
and economic crisis, an industrial crisis as well, the nature of which is not
to be rmderesti-mated. Government authorities have gone to much trouble to
conceal the existence. of an industrial crisis, the import of which together
Frith the economic and agricultural situation would bring to light the total
failure of the ;resent regime which has pinned the excuse for the agricultural.
situation to the draught of 1950.
3. Yugoslav industrial efforts, particularly the war production, have consumed
considerable stockpiles of raw material.. Numerous cheraica7. factories have
failed to pass on from the experimental stage of production to mass production.
The failure of achieving production norms imposed upon various branches of
industry, has obliged the government to import vast amounts of machinery from
Austria, Italy and Great Britain. Steel and iron continue to be scarce mid
deficient. The shortage of medical products is great. They are In general
imported from the West, but the quantities are insufficient to meet the demand.
collection is somewhat retntrded.
United States aid to Yugoslavia in the form of food supplies has only lightly
benefited the civilian population. The reason for this is that large stocks
have found their u v.7 into military shops. Sowing of the current crop has not
reached the dosired proportions, and prospects for the present year's harvest
do not appear to be favorable. The Governlrisnt's effort to repair the situation
by exempting the peasants from the surrender of cortain products to the Etate
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