YUGOSLAV FOURTH ARMY AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004100700004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 23, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
A special infantry brigade was for. ed in ICa:irsik in late :max:te_.aaer
or early October 1949. in forrain,; the brigade, the ,,.;ecification
was -lade that no reservists would be included in its ranks.
Shortly after its forl:;?tion, the bri ;ade as sent to Te. ierin near
the Yugoslav-Hun, roan borciur, a11e Yedly because the Soviets had
sassed troo_.s on the Yu-;ucla.v-tiun ;c.ri.an ant; Yu;osl.v-L.u::>anian
burc,i.rs.
Since mid Novouber l94J there h;:.4so been no troop movera..:i,ts in the
Fourth Army area. Troo.s in the area who :u..d corn;;l,:ted their tour
of duty .:ei-e demobilized on 3 Decez.ioer 1949. At the oa.ae time,
most .-yen in the 1929 a,,e ;roue ,;ere called to duty,. .~eserv; sts who
hc~'. been c:_Llled for two :~onths of active duty were released and
placed on inactive status.
In late Ttovember 1949 a unit of 2-4 armed rien was observed in the
vicinity of Liureka Sobota, in the triangle ford by the. Au.F tro.
Yu ;oslav-}iun;avian boec~er4 o The unit se en .lrgly entered Yugoslavia
from Austria.. :ilitia fx'om 'iurska Sobota en;a ;ed the aen in a
skirmish in which six ni litia.raen were killed.. The number of invaders
killed or wounded ..,as not ascerta.irned,,
Approved For Release 2000/05/18 : CIA-RDP82-00457R004100700004-9
This document is he, ---!)y regraded to +
CONFIDENTIAL in accxdance with the
letter of 13 Cr;oYc; 1373 from the
Director of (e r: cal Ir,tc i;gence to the
Archivist of Uie Sties.
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