MILITARY PROJECTS IN BELGRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010900050003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FES 1952
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT
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PLACE
ACQUIRED
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Military Projects in Belgrade
DATE
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794,, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR. 12 March 1952
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Three antiaircraft batteries, equipped with early-warning devices, surround the
observatory on Veliki Vracar. It appears that the guns, which were recently
installed, are 88 mm. in caliber.
2. Three new apartment buildings located on Karabuxna, on the intersection of
Partizanski Road and Mija Kovac.evica Street, have been requisitioned and are
currently used to quarter consecutive groups of men in the military reserve
from the Banat who are in Belgrade for a period of two months1training. Each
building contains 42 two-room apartments.
3. A new militia command headquarters is under construction near the Dunav railroad
station at 29 November Street. The compound will cover the entire block which
is bordered by the Orecka, Vatrosava Lisinskog, and Jovana Avakumovica Streets,
In addition to offices for the staff headquarters and private quarters, the
building will contain a mess hall and a motion-picture theater. Five hundred
convicts are being employed in the construction work. ,
A new KNOW headquarters command is currently being built by the army on the
corner of Skadarska and 29 November Streets, on the same block where the French
Church and Politika press office are located. -
A new building to house the Yugoslav Ministry of Interior is under construction
on Kneza Milosa Street, between Durmitorska and Visegradska Streets. The
building is being built by convicts, and will be six stories high.
6. KNOJ barracks and the military prison are located in Palilula, where the guard
battalion was formerly housed. The barracks are surrounded by barbed wire, but
no guards have been observed during the day. T_-
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