NOF ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300090007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 27, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT NOF Activities
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1. On 8 August 1948, at an unidentified place in Western Macedonia, there was
a meeting of the Plenum of the Central Committee of NOF. A report was
made on the activity of NOF from the convention of 13 January 1948 until the
above date. The report complained of weaknesses in all fields of activity
(propaganda, enlightenment, recruiting, and above all rousing the Macedonian
Slav population to join the struggle of the Democratic Army).
2. The Plenum declared Paschalis Mitropoulos and Michael Kermitzis responsible
for this situation. They have developed an opposition faction within the
organization, and this antagonism is regarded as tending toward the dissolution
of NOF.
5, This attack against the two leading officials was merely a pretext. The truth
is that no weakness has been observed in the various fields of activity of
NOF, but on the contrary the organization has fully performed its functions.
The attack against Mitropoulos and Keramitzis was inspired by Guerrilla
Headquarters and was aimed at removing the two leaders from the Central
Committee of NOF, because they are regarded as followers of Tito and
opposed to the Cominform. They were to be replaced by others more faithful
to the Cominform and more sincere collaborators of KKE and Markos.
I r.,- Cominform and KKE had bdcome afraid that Keramitzis and Mitropoulos
might follow the policy of Gotsev during the period of Elas activity.
Gotsev, as is well known, withdrew from Elas and formed independent Slavo-
Macedonian units and in collaboration with Tito sought an Autonomous Macedonia
federated with Yugoslavia.
On 8 August 1948 in Melbourne, Australia, there was a celebration of
Ilinden attended by the Yugoslav Consul General Zarkovic. Christos Altis,
from the village of Triantafyllia (near FlorinR made a speech praising the
struggles of NOF as a continuation of the Gotse-Deltchev work. He stated
that the time is at hand for the fulfillment of the desires and ideals of the
fighters of Ilinden for the establishment of an Autonomous Macedonia with
its capital at Skoplje, and added that NOF, in alliance with the "Democratic
Army" of Greece, has succeeded in liberating the Prespa region. Soon, he said,
the first step will be the declaration of this region as autonomous.
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