YUGOSLAV IMMIGRANTS IN BOLIVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003200130010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 6, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY
Bolivia
REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT
Yugoslav Immigrants in Bolivia
DATE DISTR. 6 , January 1954
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REQUIREMENT NO.
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. There are approximately 1350 Yugoslavs at present residing in Bolivia. Of
these, approximately 925 arrived in Bolivia prior to the outbreak of World
War II, and 400 following the war. About twenty of the pre-war arrivals have
since left Bolivia; most of these have gone to Chile and maintain business
interests in Bolivia. Ten of the post-war immigrants have also since left
Bolivia.
2. There are active Yugoslav clubs in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Oruro, composed of
Titoists, who comprise the greater part of the.Yugoslav colony in Bolivia.
While there is a small number of fervent Ccxnmunists sympathetic toward the USSR
and international Communism, the.'' majority are waists only in the sense of
being ardent Yugoslav patriots, who support tYie Tito regime as the best thing
for Yugoslavia. The Club Yugoslav in La Paz, is headed by~'Srecko ':Saeiatilt ~ a
leading La Paz businessman, and is composed for the mostpp.rt of well-to-do
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merchants and industrialists. That in Cochabamba is headed by an M.
and is also composed primarily of merchants and industrialists.., " U7ilikd `the',' '
group in La Paz, most of the Yugoslavs in Cochabamba are pre-World War II
immigrants. In Oruro, where the Club Yugoslav owns its own building and is
extremely active, the majority of the members are connected with the mines..
One J. I?Cy lh is president of the Oruro Club.
3. There are only a few, if any, anti-Tito Yugoslavs in Oruro, and very few of
them in La Paz and Cochabamba. Even these are not organized into groups, and
there are no recognized leaders. Na open din C~habambasis composed primarily s
and anti-Tito farces. The anti-Tito group
of Yugoslav Catholic missionaries in that area.
4. There are no locally-inspired news or propaganda publications in Serbo-Croat.
Considerable quantities of such material are received through the clubs from
the Yugoslav Embassy and other Yugoslav organizations in Buenos Aires. Also
received are newspapers pr.nted in.'.Serbo-Croat from the United States.
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