ANTI-COMMUNIST REGIME SKETCHES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R008100010002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

FORM NO. 51.61
MAY 1949
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
Yugoslavia
DATE DISTR. 10 May 1951
SUBJECT
Anti-Communist Regime Sketches
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The attached sketches, together with the anti-Communist regime explanations
given below, are forwarded to you for your possible interest and retention.
1. Picture 1
This depicts the corner of Cika Ljubina and Kneginje Ljubice Streets in
Belgrade. This kind of scene can be seen at all times of the day. People
are standing in line in front of the mess waiting to receive their meagre
meal. Among them are former professors, lawyers, merchants, officers,
employees and workers. At the other corner behind the mess is an office
issuing food coupons. Pension cards are also issued here. By this method
the poor population is regimented and impoverished.
Picture 2
Thousands of land owners are sent out on forced labor projects only because
they wished to cultivate their land themselves. All those who dared to say
they did. not wish toluntarily to join the Peasants Workers Cooperatives have
met with a fate described in the attached picture. The land owner and his
wife are handcuffed by the militia and sent to jail and their entire estate
is requisitioned. Everything is taken from their home. In the spring and
summer of 1949, the Communists reported that a large number of peasants had
joined the workers cooperatives. This actually did take place but under the
greatest pressure exerted by the Party and its agents. Thousands of people
were sent out on forced labor projects. One need no longer ask why there is
starvation in Communist countries and why the fields do not bear crops.
3, Picture 3
This building under construction is located on Milosa Velikog street and
next to it is a large forced labor ccamp. In it are former engineers, workers,
industrialists, merchants and tradesmen. The Ministry of Internal Affairs
alone, when constructing its building, used 12,000 forced laborers. These
laborers worked both day and night under pressure of the guards who are
Communists. Guns are constantly aimed at the workers. There are a number
of similar labor camps in Belgrade, in Senjak, Cukrica, and on the Danube
River, and there are two camps which belong to the Ministry of Internal
Affairs of Serbia.
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4. Picture 4
This is the method used by the national Communist authorities, whereby
UDB and KNOJ agents, the militia and officers receive supplies. Their
stores, which do not have displays and are very well camouflaged with
curtains, contain everything and these people can buy what they wish.
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