RESISTANCE GROUPS IN VARDAR,MACEDONIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400400013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELI GE~GtF~G C REPORT NO.
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Yugoslavia
Resistance Groups in Vardar, Macedonia
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25X1X i., In 1950 the following anti-Communist organizations existed in Vardar,
Macedonia:
a. U"RO (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization)1
b. National Shipetar Demokrati,. an Albanian Moslem nationalist organization.
whose objective is the annexation of Kosovo and l=ietohija to Albania.
co Indjel$ a Moslem anti-Communist organization
d, A Yugoslav faction which included both royalists2 and republicans whose
objective was the establishment of a democratic regime in Yugoslavia
which rould include the territory of Vardar, Macedonia as a federal unit.
This faction was strengthened by the Bulgarian occupation of Vardar,
Macedonian, during World '~'ar III
None of these organizations were well organized rind they had failed to draw
up a clear cut program of activities. These organizations confined them-
selves generally to promoting propaganda although even this activity was not
coordinated in different areas,
2? During 1947 approximately 60 members of the National Shipetar Demokrati3
organization were arrested and tried. Four of these individuals were executed
and the rest were given prison sentences of 3 to 20 years. Mahmut Dumanip
one of the organization's outstanding leaders was confined to the central
prison in Skoplje.
3. Indjel, the Wsleet anti-Communist organization was discovered by Yugoslav
authorities in 1948, and approximately 30 leaders of the organization were
apprehended and tried. Four of these individuals were executed and the
rest received prison terms ranging from 3 to 20 years. These persons were
charged with promoting anti'Cormunist activity and were accused of maintaining
contact with the Turkish Consulate in Skoplje.
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During the tire the informants were .in Macedonia, the studentst branch of
It' i.0 in 5koplje attempted to buy an old Awerican printing press in Zagreb;
homever, the group was unsuccessful in collecting the 35,E dinars deeded
for this purchase. The plan. of the students I!"K() group had been to publish.
a new3paper in the Bulgarian language for distribution throughout I a.eedonia,
This nfn,,spe,er wag to contain trsnz~iattnns of articles published in the
United States under the title of P!alce? jonn
11"R10 pronaga-nda.was promoted in gynnastwna end universities bat groups o
three rner^bers. The hellgvtrters of the university, students% branch of 1t,`R0
sae located in 3kop3jep This.branch had groups in the universities-in
Belgrade And Zagreb. ; The I';1tl groune in. nalgra.de collaborated with en
anti-Communist organip-ation called Zisti Orso (golden -agle) which had
members throughout 7Cu";oslavia a In the University of Bel de there was
another entiaGQmmunist student organization called 7iti Mrav. In the
University of Zagreb students who belonged to the :0,11O organisation worked
with a Croatian anti-Communist student organization knom+m as Krizeri
(Crusadere),, In Zagreb there was also. a Croatian anti-Communist student.
Ustashi- orgenitzation. Altogether there were anpro:eimntely 4,000
Fflacedonians in Zagreba . .
6 ,11 of three s"-nti'Tito groups hive reporter iy been ruthlessly.pore ectr ad
by the Tito regime. Inrorrr.ents estimated th?Rt during the five yee.r period
beta,t-on 1945 and 1950, between 80() to 1.000 persons accuse! of nnti4o111run1at.
or Tl''R( activity, were apprehended end. tried in the different distrirts'Of
T"eeer orti.a, the rn jority of them in kopl je and Bttotj.5 Many, of these
indi *idval.. ,~ smang them priests, military personnel, university end rnnaeiuv
teachers and eta erne, professional persons and large groups of poe.sontsa
were executed or given orison sentences ranging from 2 to .20 years of
i rn pr . ostment
the students at Ckon'P. je University are thou ht to be adherents of It.R00
,.CCorA-1ng to one informant the rpjority of the Persons
tried Sr sari,enced in. +'F"ncedonia were r ambers of IV . HotRever,, several
other informants atleged that the individuals ar?restei qnd trier'- in
?^cedonta belonged to dif 'arent reststrinCe r"rsvorrrnts, but that the regime
labeled them ,as XIlt0 membere because a trial of "rsc-oa..ret.ists" would
aorleel more to .the pe_zblico
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