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Directorate for State Security (Yugoslavia)

organization of Communist Yugoslavia. It was at all times best known by the acronym UDBA, which is derived from the organization's original name in the Serbo-Croatian...

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Vinko Sindičić

Vinko Sindičić (born September 29, 1943) is a former UDBA agent. Sindičić was born in the town of Stara Baška on the island of Krk. As a child, Sindičić...

Last Update: 2023-10-14T15:12:21Z Word Count : 441

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Arkan

to the UDBA, as seen in the escape from the Lugano prison in 1981. Dolanc is quoted as having said: "One Arkan is worth more than the whole UDBA." In 1972...

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Bruno Bušić

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was one of the best-known victims of UDBA (Yugoslav secret police) killings. Bušić was born in the village of Vinjani...

Last Update: 2024-01-18T15:37:10Z Word Count : 580

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OZNA

was formed from the military part and the Directorate for State Security (UDBA) from its civilian counterpart. Since the OZNA was left without its third...

Last Update: 2024-02-15T12:38:42Z Word Count : 1494

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Crusaders (guerrilla)

Security (UDBA) blamed the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS, also called Mačekovci) and the Catholic clergy for the creation of the Crusaders. The UDBA claimed...

Last Update: 2024-03-07T17:39:13Z Word Count : 2064

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Stjepan Đureković

businessman who was assassinated by the Yugoslavian State Security Administration (UDBA) in West Germany in 1983. He was previously the CEO of the state-owned INA...

Last Update: 2024-01-18T15:48:06Z Word Count : 679

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Croatian Six

intelligence service, UDBA. Intelligence sources later confirmed that Dr Georgi Trajkovski, the Yugoslav Consul General in Melbourne, was a UDBA operative and...

Last Update: 2024-01-22T03:27:18Z Word Count : 717

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Josip Manolić

high-ranking official of the Yugoslav State Security Administration (OZNA or UDBA) and later as Prime Minister of Croatia, from 24 August 1990 to 17 July 1991...

Last Update: 2024-03-22T03:47:43Z Word Count : 1943

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Counterintelligence Service (Yugoslavia)

for Protection of the People (OZNA), with Directorate for State Security (UDBA) forming the second, civilian, component of the new security and intelligence...

Last Update: 2024-03-07T11:01:12Z Word Count : 222

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Directorate for State Security (Yugoslavia)

The State Security Service, also known by its original name as the Directorate for State Security, was the secret police organization of Communist Yugoslavia. It was at all times best known by the acronym UDBA, which is derived from the organization's original name in the Serbo-Croatian language: "Uprava državne bezbednosti" ("Directorate for State Security"). The acronyms SDB (Serbian) or SDS (Croatian) were used officially after the organization was renamed into "State Security Service". In its latter decades it was composed of eight semi-independent secret police organizations—one for each of the six Yugoslav federal republics and two for the autonomous provinces—coordinated by the central federal headquarters in the capital of Belgrade.Although it operated with more restraint than secret police agencies in the communist states of Eastern Europe, the UDBA was a feared tool of control. It is alleged that the UDBA was responsible for the "eliminations" of dozens of enemies of the state within Yugoslavia and internationally (estimates about 200 assassinations and kidnappings). Eliminations vary from those of World War II Ustaše Croat leaders Vjekoslav Luburić in Spain, to Croatian emigrant writer Bruno Bušić and Bosnian emigrant writer Dragiša Kašiković, although war criminals have to be distinguished from those assassinated only for dissent or political reasons.With the breakup of Yugoslavia, the breakaway republics went on to form their own secret police agencies, while the Serbian State Security Directorate kept its UDBA-like name.


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