COMINFORM ACTIVITIES IN YUGOSLAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003900420011-5
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 9, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Cominform Activities in Yugoslavia
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The Yugoslav Government is making extensive use of "volunteer" work
brigades in carrying out the Five Year Plan. Brigades are employed in
all types of work, including priority projects currently behind schedules
2. Because of the vulnerability of the brigades, the Cominform is en-
deavoring to place at least one man in every formation. These agents
are responsible for:
a. Reporting on brigade activities and personalities, especially those
unsympathetic to the government.
b. 17here cirected, to instigate slowdown tactics and sabotage,
3. Agents in the brigades report to "centers of clandestine Cominform cells
of work brigades". Each Federal Republic allegedly has four such
centers, in every case directed by a leader of Yugoslav nationality who
is responsible for collecting and compiling information from each brigade.
On oasis of the information, cell leaders issue instructions on specific
targets and directions for sabotage to brigade agents.
ii.. Agents always maintain a pro-Tito cover. They become friendly with less
enthusiastic members, lend..them money, gradually build up a hatred of the
regime, and eventually provide subversive literature. If the individual
is interested, he is considered as an active collaborator and is reported
to the cell center. If he is not receptive, -the Cominform agent" t reports
him to the brigade captain as "Cominformist"- Thus the agent. wins*the
trust of the captain and continues to organize with maximum, security,
Though the system is hazardous, success to date apparently warrants
continuance.
In addition to low level agents, Cominfornists use special agents on
directive and administrative levels of more important industries. These
are usually professionals, such as engineers, architects and technicians
who can cause considerable damage even without the use of explosives.
Agents are well paid, and usually receive from twenty to thirty thousand
dinars monthly, as well as bonuses, according to the task accomplished.
6. The Yugoslav Government has arrested enough of these agents to understand
their methods of operating, but the conspiracy is so vast that it is
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