SITUATION OF THE JEWS IN YUGOSLAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100100002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 1, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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DP82-00457R0001001
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Y'agoslavia,
SUBJECT Situation of the Jewt, in
' ugoelavia
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[HST. 2 October 1946
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1. The majority of the Jews in Yugoslavia support the Communist Party and are
led by Uosa Pi jade, a leader in the Yugoslav Communist Party.
The reminder of the Jew who are anti-Communist are led by Dr. Jacob Cheelem
bonovich and by Dr. Frederic Pope. Both, are prominent and influential. %ttor-
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2. Pi jade is attempting to draw into Yugoslavia all Jews .moose these parts of
Europe which are at present under Soviet domination. Such persons are given
important positions in state adminis?tra;;ion, agricu1ti ral and industrial
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Fl jade heads a seoret organization created for the purpose of selecting and
training nati and foreign Jews in terroristic activities and sending them
to Palestine.
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sr ien .t by fir. Dragoi jub Jovanovich. )
Conetanta (Ruda) has been chosen as the main assembly center for these
persons. While at Couttnta they carry on propaganda regarding their home-
lessness and their suffering; during the war?, and attempt to embark either
by peaceful means or by force on ships bound for Palestine. It is said
that the terrorists are mixed in with the old people and children who are
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