SABOTAGE BY COMINFORM AND ANTI-REGIME ELEMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500220012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP82-00457R008500220012-5
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENI~I_i'GENC REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Sabotage by ' Comi form and Anti-Regime,
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1m The Public ossec.ator of Sarajevo was reportedly assassinated in June 1951
About the saute time a group of alleged Comnforrnists reportedly blew up an
as unition depot located near the canal in Sibeni.kq
2. Forty men of unstated politics, led by an officer, attacked and burned the
B Barracks in Kra jovac during July and also set fire to two peasant
cooperatives. As the group were attacking the KraguSevac i?unition Factories,
they were destroyed by regular arar r units. The incident has not been made
public; however, 10B and litany Police are investigating the case since
it appeared that the attackers had apparently counted on the mutiny of those
troops guarding the factories,. As a result, the Kragujc area is now
heavily patrolled, and completed arms and munition are being stored :. ware-
houses and are not being distributed to the troops. The quantity o:
material. reportedly stored is estimated to be :sufficient to equip two
divisions
3e On 10 July 1951 Krizari anti-regime elements engaged in an assault at an
unspecified location on four farm cooperatives, killing livestock and burning
gram a Two UDS barracks also were burned and an unknown number of soldiers
were killed.
4o Frequent desertions among troops in Skopl. je are reportedly occurring as a
result of Cominfor nist propaganda. The troops, badly clothed and fed,
suffered a serious epidemic of malaria in Jaya
5. On 13 July 1951 an unknown group attacked a prison detail near Lepoglava.
Although the guards fought back, they were overcome, two guards were
killed and two were wounded while the group freed the prisoners n
6. In Nova Vas Co tnforanist elements have ? llegedly set fire to a farm
machinery ga ?age, destroying the harvesters, tractors and grain stock.
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