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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R011700030002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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MAY 1949 51.61 CLASSIFICATION SSECRET/C~ONTTaUL - U.S. OFFICIALS O: L AEG CENTRALS IN~IGENCEENCY REPORT
eat a ;? ; 29' INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. 50X1-HUM
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Economic Information
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF I14FO
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 50
U. S. C.. 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRO-
HIS I TED BY LAW, REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR. 3 October 1952
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REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORP
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containing Yugos av economic in orma :Lon .
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railroad track has beet rerouted over it; the second bridge has
been demolished.
A railroad line is under construction from BANJA LUKA to IN DOB0.
The railroad line from BRCKO to BANOVIC has been completed.
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a) Miscellaneous
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January-December 1951 Aid from Abroad
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the following material was unloaded
in the port during the period indicated in the margin:
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SECURITY INFORMATION
POLITICAL INFORMATION
a) Government
December 1951 Ministry of Finances of the People's
Republic of SERBIA
Located on BRANKOVA Street No 21, in a five-story building
divided as follows:
a) 1sttfloor: Supply office; records; supply room. The
director of the supply office is PETROVIC.
b) 2nd floor: Cadres section, to which CANOVIC, Spaso, and his
wife are assigned; secretariat section, to which RASEVIC, Borisav is
assigned (this section also includes the UDBa of the Ministry, which
is in charge of surveillance of personnel); office of the Ministry;
Minister's cabinet.
c) 3rd floor: legal section; tax section.
d) 4th floor: auditing section; statistical section.
4) 5th floor: budgetary section; administrative and bookkeeping
.section.
Personnel employed: about 300.
The Ministry has under its jurisdiction on every People's Committee
of a subprefecture or individual city a financial section, a collector's
office, and a customs guard (POVERENISTVO ZA FINANSIJE), as an executive
and inspection body.
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There are three deputy ministers with the following duties:
1) .
2) JOVANOVIC
3) ASKOVIC
legal and administrative matters;
- taxes;
bookkeeping, auditing, and statistics.
Collector's Office and Customs Guard, for the Ist Quarter
(POVERN,NISTVO ZA FINANSIJE I. RAJONA)
Located in the same building as the Ministry, with its own
office and entrance.
Director: MILACIC, Rasko (his title is "POVERENIK ZA FINANSIJEE').
This office is in a wing of the building, on the first and second
floors.
First floor:
- Records and auditing section.
- Cashier's office.
Second floor:
- Office of the director.
- Office of the deputy director, a certain DURAKOVIC, assigned
to personnel;
- Tax section.
- Land registry section.
- Bookkeeping section.
plainclothes
Customs Guard section, with 5 office workers and 10/guards.
b) Public Opinion and Trends
February 1952
A rumor is circulating among the Yugoslav population to the effect
that the present army is being organized mainly for guerilla activities
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in case of aggression, for the purpose of gaining time and maintaining
the continuity of the present state. The population is of the opinion
that such gue'illa warfare is doomed to failure because of lack of
cooperation from the people.
February 1952
In spite of all the efforts of the regime to get the population
on its side, the people are unwilling to collaborate with TITO in the
cold war against Cominformism. TITO can expect no support from the
people in case of aggression from any quarter, because the people are
convinced that taking active part in the struggle would serve only
to maintain TITO and his henchmen in power. The people are so
exasperated that, even though they are anti-Communist, they
would be disposed to accept a Cominformist regime rather than continue
'living under the present regime; even a Cominformist occupation would
armed
be preferred, because it would provoke/intervention by the Western
powers and a consequent liberation of the country from Communism.
strengthens TITO's position to the detriment of the Yugoslavs; they
February 1952
The entire Yugoslav people are opposed to economic and 50X1-HUM
military assistance. According to the people, such assistance merely
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are not fully aware of the situation which
has developed as a result of continued aid.
believe that
February 1952
The internal political situation has improved somewhat,
their
especially between Serbs and Groats; t only objective is to overthrow
TITO. Anticlerical persecution continues unabated, against both the
Catholic and Orthodox faiths; everything possible is done to sabotage
the religious sentiments of the pd people.
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c) Miscellaneous
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SECURITY WFORMATION
February 1952 FIUME
In the S. CATERINA Quarter there are various small fortifications,
formerly Italian;
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guarded by sentries, who are frequently fired upon or pelted with rocks
by members of the national reeistlince
sole purpose of creating a tense atmosphere unfavorable to the
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TITO regime; vMis~gapproved by the entire population.
February 1952
Throughout the entire country there are members of the national
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resistance, who have fled to the mountains and organized themselves
in small groups. They do not carry out guerrilla activities but are.
following a policy of waiting. The xmc largest groups are in the
region of HOMOLJE (northeast SERBIA), BOSNIA, and MACEDONIA.
in the area of NEGCTIN and ZAJECAR and in
the mountain villages of the region of HOMAJIE, every farmer is
equipped with well-concealed weapons$,and due to the nature of the
terrain the government authorities are uncle to take action against
them. Considering, in addition to the terrain, the nationalistic
sentiments of the people, it is easy to predict that the resistance
elements in these regions will have a good chance.
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OSIJEK - 1951
There is a small gasholder at OSIJEK and a cannery at NADEN.
SRBOBRAN - 1952
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There is a hemp mill and s.neiswAIMM factory. The former employs
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There is a consumer goods factory near the railroad station. There
is a small brewery at an unidentified location.
3UBOTICA - February 1952
An electric motor factory called "SEVER" is located on the left of
the road leading to the village of PALIC.
various factories along the road;
POLITICAL INFORMATION
SREMSKA MITROVICA - 1951
There is a labor camp for political prisoners.
VELIKA KIKINDA - December 1951
two Yugoslav officers
fled to HUNGARY in December 1951.1
officers with Cominformist leanings occur frequently.
flights of 50X1 -HUM
SRBOBRAN - 1952
The local UDBa headquarters operates a reception center for
refugees from RUMANIA or HUNGARY. This center is located in the
vicinity but at an unspecified location.
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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
For about a year the government authorities have been showing
greater tolerance toward all religions. However, the political police
continue to keep the clergy under surveillance.
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SECURITY O;FORIrIAiI"
PRESS AND PROPAGANDA
The Serbian press takes every opportunity to emphasize the strikes
which occur
ECONOMIC INFORMATION
CURUG - 1952 Iv-
There are two kilns in the city with about 300-400 workers, who
work only in summer. The material produced is used for civilian
construction.
Electric power is supplied to the city from a thermal electric
power plant at STARI BECEJ. This power is supplied continuously except
for a few times when the mayor, GAVRILOVIC, Miograd, has it shut off
to prevent the people from listening to foreign news broadcasts.
There is no acqueduct.
The only supplies which have reached the area of CURUG
are a few cases of powdered eggs.
OSIJEK - 1952
There is a steel mill in the city with a conspicuous smokestack.
The steel mill is located near the railroad line which connects
the city with DALJ.
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION
NOVI SAD - 1952
Of the two former bridges across the DANUBE which were damaged by
bombing during the war, the highway bridge has been repaired and the
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