DESERTION AND PROBABLE SABOTAGE IN THE YUGOSLAV ARMED FORCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008800160014-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CE ELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO. dr-~E~.w~ ?~ 1NI: A'TION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
Yugoslnvie
DATE DISTR. 28 Sept, 1951
SUBJECT
Desertion and Probrble t'a.iotage in the
Yugoslav Arred Forces
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It is requested that information appearing below
be evaluated. It is requested-further that any
duplication of this information be noted and
reported, regardless of the point of origin.
1. Three non-cos?nissioned officers of the Yugoslav Air Force reportedly absconded
from the airfield at Djevd jeli ja in a YAK fighter plane on 3,3 May 1951.
Lt General 1adovan Vukanovic, the corzmanding ,general of the : alitary
District of Skoplje, I ediately ordered a thorough investigation which
resulted in the arrest of a certain t is. jor Tra jkovic, the corr-anding officer
of the Djevdjelija airfield, on the charge that he had aided the three
deserting non-corm issloned officers.
2. According to source, on 22 Ifay 1951 four cadets from the Technical Air
Force 'chool at Lajlovac, near rarajevo, deserted because they had
wounded one of their instructors, Lt. Iiha jlo I3uric. Notwithstanding a
thorough search and a rigid Investigation the deserters were not
apprehended b : ya jor Boris L.rusic, the corrrianding officer of the school,
i+as relieved of his corr-?a nd and ordered to appear before the General
I; &dquarters of the Air Force at Zemun wherc he ,as personally
interrogated on the incidents
3. On the nigh of 21 :ay 1951, at approxi"'ately 2200 hours, it is reported
that a fire b:oke out in the aeronautical section of the Central Library
for the Yugoslav Argj, tiahich is located on 29 Pdovember x treet '.a. 4, in
Belgrade. This section of the Library which is used by the Air Force
contains technics?, publications on aerormauttcs and the aeronautic industry
and about 200 of tlese books as well as 5 cases of archives were allegedly
destroyed. The night watchman, Konrad .enezic, was arrested followinLl tl.e
incident. The source speculates that it is an interesting- coincidence that
the fire broke out on the nationally celebrated "Air Force IDlay,"
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