The Secret Police of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Absztrakt

The civil security-intelligence work has been institutionalized for the first time in Serbia in 1899. A Law on amendments of the Central State Administration was adopted on October 5/17 1899 on the session of the National Assembly held in Nis. The Department for Secret Police Work was established within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with task "to ensure the preservation of the internal state order and worldly security in general ". Respecting the significance of the first legal structuring of civil security-intelligence work in Serbia, the current civil security service the Security-Information Agency celebrates October 17 as its day. In this article the author go through the history of different Yugoslavian intelligence organizations and introduce some examples on their secret activities from 1944 to 2002.