YUGOSLAV SUBMARINE ACTIVITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800710010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 2, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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dockyards and assembled at. the Tivat and Kzr-,ajevica doC arcs. .phis worn; was
carried out by = group of German engineers under Soviet supervision vho had
been sent to Yugoslavia directly from the Soviet Union- They were assisted.
by trusted Communist Yugoslav workers.
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A Soviet Admiral was chief su' ervisor. He zlt?'a,ys wore civilian clothes r-nl
called himself Kdavi_jenkovskY? but it has been ascertained. that his real Pame
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The work of assernbl ing ti he submarines lasted four rind. a half ronths, ^nd
was carried out day and night. The T.,orker were kept. under s ;riot coniroll
by 3 agents.
4,. The launching of the Yugoslav submarines took place without special ceremony
although Marshal Tito was present. The submarines are now de-oloyed in ?0'ell.-
T,rotected locations in the neighborhood of Fiume and Susak.
5., A total. of 12 subT.narines of various types were launched in June l948T Si:: yof
them are of the (sermon 'ISnck T nterse~=boot I' type with a crew of 20 mien. The
h:tuzenrints of these craft were taken 'by the Soviet anthoritles f om the -ref=iv ..
of the Ue: ~n.. ~ These su:amarines --,re eo-aio,ed, -i ,- twe 100
,rtmas.n ?_ Latry of Marine. xnc.
.;millimeter guns and several machineguns -hich can be used. slso as znti-az:c?cx?ni''
:"u:lss, There are torpedo tubes with a range of about :'0 nautical miles, These
.ubra.rines have extra;~ord na.rily efficient Zeiss ikon ortICal A.p'rar.ntus. g`smil'r
manufactured in the soviet Union at a new
optical a!% aratus are not' being
factory in Leningrad.
type. They carry a cret-i of ,2 ? ien5
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