ORDER OF BATTLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R009900040002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 4, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Order of Battle
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miscellaneous observations on internal
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KNOJ unit headquarters, and commanding officer,
a lieutenant, Croatian.
b)r Troops
Unidentified KNOJ unit for service along the border line, housed in a MISCEK
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of the locality indicated in the margin.
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the force of the unit itself l 120 to 25 men, and
the commanding officer, a second lieutenant, speaks Serbian.
existence of a KNOJ unit inthe
locality
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civilian house in the locality indicated in the margin.
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Unidentified KNOJ unit for service along the border line, housed in BRITOV
a barracks about 100 meters from the JUDRIO River.
This locality cannot be located on the map, but is about 4 kilometers
from MISCEK.
Approximately 20 men, the commanding officer is a noncommissioned
The units dUtAtedtc,:eU at MISCEK,- COLLOBRIDA and BRITOV, are said to
be responsible to the headquarte_s of the KNOJ unit located at DESCLA
officer who speaks Croatian.
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PEOPLE'S MILITIA
Jan. 1951 The barrack of the People's Army is in a civilian house in the localityl
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indicated in the margin.
Commanding officer: a noncommissioned officer, approximately 7-8
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Housing for i soldiers with families are in the same
location.
c) Miscellaneous
Almost all the soldiers belonging to the KNOJ, located on the border line
near the locality indicated in the margin, are Croatians.
training which they wouL,d have to undergo in the other branches of
the anDyy, and because the food given them is better and more
abundant.
they are doing military service unwillingly, but that they
prefer to do it with the KNOJ units because, although they have
rather heavy duties ( night and day shifts which they :rust do
along the border), they are not subjected to the long and heavy
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B) ECONOMIC INFORMATION
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I) Agriculture
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A few peasant landowners of the locality indicated in the margin
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and of other bordering localities, are taking part in a "zadruga"
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"state agricultural. society".
A few, the minority, have joined willingly, believing at first in the
value of the institution, while others, the majority, have been forced
to join, half through fear of being subjected to reprisals if they
did not belong, and half because it was made impossible for them to
pay the taxes which were levied against landowners who tried to
do their own farm work.
Those who participate in these societies must sign a three year
contract.
The society is directed by a president, the selection of whom is
based on the criterion of political affiliation rather thah capability,
and who is responsible for art manager.
The president controls the management of the work, while the manager
controls the administrative side of things.
The farmer's pay is bated on the hours of work he does, and he receives
a certain amount of produce.
The farmer himself, however, does not own anything, even his work
tools are common property, and he is paid only because he works.
Thus, besides the abolition of private property, the farmer is only
a means of labor to the advantage, not of the communitpr,,for everyone
has a hard time making both ends meet, but of the few who support the
regime in good or bad faith, and enjoy numerous privileges.
This, in short, is the
opinion of all the local farmers.
As a result of all this, while the propaganda continues so that other
landowners will join the societies, those who already belong are
waiting for the three year term to expire so that they cah try to
get out.
The original members initiated the activities of the societies in the M
month of November - December 1949, so the three years expire in December
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2) Food
The amount of commodities distributed through the ration cards
continues to be completely inadequate. Therefore, even bartering
continues, in order to obtain necessary commodities.
food supplies coming
from America, but nothing more is being distributed, which seems
to indicate that they are going into stock piles.
3) Industries
Several workers have been dismissed from the cement factory which
is in the locality indicated in the margin.
Mostly ex farmers are concerned who, after the collectivization
of the land, were absorbed by the cement factory in order to
increase production. Now they are trying to return them to the
farms which have -re been left almost deserted.
The same thing is happening to other farmers in the area, who have
been working in other industries, and who are now returning to farm
work.
C)- POLITICAL INFORMATION
I) - Propaganda
Jan. 1951 Propaganda is tending towards convincing the Slovenes that the
Slovene Republic enjoys particular privileges since the standard
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territory, in which the people are subjected to greater privations.
Almost no one believes as much however., considering the miserable
moral and material. conditions of the life they are forced to lead.
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