EXPULSIONS FROM THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CROATIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006700690011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 31, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAL
t,JBJECT Expulsions from the Central Committee of the
Co mx un i.st Par y of Croatia
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
;N FO,
Introduction
in Zagreb. CLASSIFICATION SE
CD NO.
NO. OF RAGES 5
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
In September 1950 three members of the Central Committee of the Cormuua ist
:'arty of Croatia;, Rade Zigic, Dusan Brkic, St,anko Canica.Opacic, and a
certain Bogoljub Rapajic, editor of Srpska :.i..) , were arrested by the
police, charged with pro- Cominform ac iv ies and economic sabotage ahd
expelled from the Communist Party of Croatian
Rade ZigL:, was a member of the Politburo of the Central. Committee of the
Yugoslav Communist Party and of Croatia. he Joined the
G mmunist Party at an early age before the ware
During
the war he filled various political appointments, ending up as Political.
Carvniss+a.r of the Second Yugoslav Arm'. After the wax, he was appointed
t.ntster of Heavy Industries in the Republic of Croatia, During the re-
organization of Industry and administration which was initiated in Croatia
in 1950, he was appointed President of the Council of Tndustry,
.ndu.str1al, policy in Croatia.
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Dusan Brktc, I was a member cf the Politburo of the Central
Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party and of the Communist Party of
Croatia. A lawyer, by profession, he filled during the war various political
and military appointments in Slavonia,. After the wad, he became
i nister
M
of Justice of the Republic of Croatia., and later Vice President of Croatia
and President of the Legislative Council. Prior to the reorganization of
Croatian industry in 1950 and the creation of a Croatian Council of Industiy,
Bride, in his capacity as Vice President of Croatia, was rwsponsibl_e for
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it. Stanko Canica -Opacic was a member of the Central Committee of the Comratnist
Parity of Groa ~.Laa
He joined the Partisans in 1941 and after the war became Minister of
Building and :later Minister of Forests and the Timber Industry in Croatia.
Bob oijub Tnapa jic held no Communist Party appointments,, he 50X1-HUM
worked as a journalist in Zagreb before the sr0 After the war, he ecru
secretary of the Serb Club in Zagreb and editor of Sr ska Rijec published
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
I Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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