ORDER OF BATTLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R009900070021-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2012
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: December 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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MAY 1949'
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CENWRALWAWIAENCY REPOF
INFORMATION REPORT
'7tOUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Order of Battle
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFO.
WIPA41
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 6 December 1951
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS. 1
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 50
U. S. C., 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO.
HIBITED BY LAW, REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
military units together with miscellaneous observations on internal
conditions
CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS C
STATE
NAVY
NSRB
DISTRIBUTION
ARMY
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) YUGOSLAV GROUND FORCES
a) Headquarters
Apr 51- U.D.Ba. Headquarters
Quarters noted.
Commanding officer: a captain, a native of LJUBLUANA.
The former commandng officer, captain STRNAT, is still in SALCANO.
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About 30 officers servewii this headquarters.
b) Miscellaneousecit military information
Mar 51- Cominformist inscriptions in barracks
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SALCANO
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in February 1951 the following words were found on kkexmaitexef txxxamki
C 0.A4 rck e
a barracks wall: "Zivio drug Stalin" (Long liveAStalin). The milit ry police
intervened immediately and had the handwriting of all the soldiers who
were quartered in the barmacke examined but they did not discover the guilty
partyiwho4disappeared.
B) ECONOMIC INFORMATION
1) Industry
,Mar 51- "ZELJEZARNA" (1 Fok" /\)ott..)
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Production
Finished producti,
- nails of every type
- bedsprings
- metal rods for buildings
I- t4
- wire of all dimensions
- copper wire
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- 2 iron tanks of huge dimensinls f(1) the electric power plant at ZIROVNICA
woe* sik love If ark JR
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They were assembled there.
Copper wire production:
Exegjimitax,ilibei2xxxib-gariaistsxgre 10-12 rail.Vailialoads a day.
Loading: almost always at night.
Destination of product not known.
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Restricted unit: There iSin the establishment a restricted unit iwbe
which it is strictly forbidden to enter unless one is employed there.
It is rumored that the unit builds partsjifbr tanks.
Arrival of raw material:
at the establishment
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Approximately every tai days 7-8 tons of tin arrivel
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Machigarx from_abroad : At the beginning of this year (1951) 700 a-ppa,natuseva
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arrivA at the establishment each packed in sealed:ftboxes 80 x 30 x 15 an?
they were prooably pressure gauges as they consisted of
two main parts:
- a glass retort
- an ammeter
In November 1950 2 12-ton cranes arrived
each mounted on a truck,
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Manager of the establishment: Engineer JANKO fOKRAR,
Foreign engineers: 3 Germans hired with regular work contracts. Their
families are with them.
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numb ere
Total/of workers employed in the establishment: 7500
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Guard service of the establishment: immulTii-by the Industrial Militia.
CommaCing officer: a lieutenant of the PE0PL13 MILITIA.
Militiamen: about 300.
Guard service:- at the gates
- nightly rounds around the establialment (about 70 man every
night)
Armament: German Mauser rifles.
Ote-vrdIttrkyal TaHEO
Qinple,..le4a accidents: from June 1950 to March 1951 there, were 3Aaccidents
zimodAdmgRi#0,405tpa41:he establishment. - 2 - U. S. OFFICIALS HMI
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Vimline.
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Damage to installations: Ia..* day in October or November 1950, toward 1200,
a blast furnace wmffmr, was damaged by an explosion zmuradoc*m frx* rami of
some foreign matter which was thrown into the furnace along with the ferrous
material mut despite the thuvough inspection of each piece to be placed in
the furnaces.
Cause: itrwasmaxikaixikxkxxxiassmxrtir*kulanixtemmmtetagaperxe Ammito the
severe intervention of the police and the investigation which followed, it
can be assumed that the incident was attributed to sabotage.
The damaged furnace ceased operation for three days.
Morale of the workers ink the establishment.
Distinction should be made between the two categories of workers:
- workers from the locality and its environs (30 %)
- workers from the ether areas of the country (70 %)
butxiirmi The workers in tie first category are, in general, satisfied
because they manage to live, as well as the case permits, near their families.
The others, on the other hand, with the small pay they receive, are not
even able to provide food for their families) who are gar away from them.
For that reason,
the dissatisfied workers ares found in this group .
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4? ncidents occur daily am=ng these workers
,q.s-oi at the establishment
and their chiefs. Itoisin November upon the arrival/of 170 Workers
from Montenegro, the barracks chief was seriously wounded with ai* knife
by one of Am these men, 444...44404itie because they were exasperated at
the pear treatment they received upon ilipmir arrival in contrast to the
many promises of complete assistance made them when they were hired.
and 1110+e. nflr;ns
II) Motlm_power
and
the police EZEKR also fear
b
the wrath of the SerlsA
to stay away from them as muchr as possible.
Mar 51- kYRR Hydroelectric power plant of -
It is now being completed. The Sava had previou4y been dammed with a
wall about 80 meters high; thus its water had already formed an artificial
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lake.
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"mole sift
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The turbines have already arrived)as they were equipped and built at the
"LITOSTROJ" in LJUBLJANA.
The orders, maim some time ago i!k, firms in eastern GERMANY have not, for
well known reasons, been continued'
TEECKPEKLigkiXalfiliXfulitledatinaltfisXfilKiiiiiaMECKhiaiiiiiCafX3.
It is planned kr/this power plant to begin operations at the end of this year
(constmmttion was begun in 1946)
III) Buildinii 321:1115DC .corleVris
witif (Pfri ct
Jun 50- The "ZIDGRAD" constrtection-sampearAwas formed toas...t.Lat_zoiL merging qf the
"PRIMO R- JE" an: the "SOCIA"
It is in charge of the construction of the new (10RIZIA.
IV) Wine cooperative
Dec )9- The "GORIZIA Wine Cooperative" is in char e orf the collection of all the SkEPAT40
nine in the followTh areas:
- COUTO
-GORIZTAM
Director: one ZOTIC, native of RANZIAIT1
Employees: 10-12
Workers: 354u
Collection: Inikxxxxxx 1949 250 carloads of wine were collected,m0a0Wt
mmaigmamo.
Prices: - obligatory collection (an amount estaolished by the committee
for each producer): at 13 clinar a liter (for the best wine)
- *ow market: 31-33 dinars a liter (also f,:q' the best ne)
Destination of the plo uct:
- The best wine is sent to S-1,0ENIA/Where it is bottled and
then exported.
- The ordinary wine is for oomestic corsumption.
The producers are allowed to keeo 250 liters of wine for each oember of
tie family- ovi. 17 years old.
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