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espionage links in the highest echelons of the administration. ‘The
foreign agents which are pumped into Yugoslavia, are for the most
part criminal elements. hese elements are permitted to go free
schools against Yugoslavia, which operate in Hungary, “omania and "
Bulgaria and in which Russian officers are the instructors. While
this system has been fairly well known in the past, it has caused
wide alarm in Yugoslavia that a new school for murderers and
terrorists has just been started near the city Dupnica in Bulgariae
This school which is mostly run by Soviet experts of the MVR
recruits its students only among the worst criminals scum of East
Europe: murderers, arsonists, and their like. These worst elements
most of them with a long police record, receive the training for
political murder and major sabotage. After finishing their course,
they are transferred into a near-by camps, where they are kept on
ice. So far, agents from Dupnica have not ye& crossed into Yugo=
Slavia3 but they are obviously a very grave threat which is causing
much worry to Yugoslav counter=intelligence. There is a reservoir
which, if used, could create much mischief everywhere in Yugoslaviae
The probable reason for these preparations for the step-up
of the sabotage action lies in the fact well known in Soviet
intelligence quarters of the discovery in Yugoslavia of large
deposits of uranium. While it is as yet too early to state hw big
these deposiis are, there is the feeling that they might easily
become among the most important in the world. They had been dis¬
covered by Yugoslav technicians in the Kapsonik mountains in the
middle of Serbia, between Morava anda Ibar. There are also indications
that these unranium deposits extend into Macedonia, clsoe to the
Bulgarian borders In this connection it might be remembered that
a year ago, serious informations from Bulgaria told us that a Soviet
geological mission had discovered uranium South of the town of
Gorna, in Bulgaria. This deposit would be, according to news from
Yugoslavia, only the outer frigge of the Yugoslav uranium fieldse
Th se diecovereies are at present considered top secret by the
Yugoslav government , especially since the Tito regime sees in the
deposit a potential magnificient bargaining position in its negociatio
with the West. But in order to make full use of this, the Betgrade
government is at present making painstaking research, in order to
be able, when the time comes, -ffectively to substantiate its cla&ims
at being the largest uranium producing country of Europe. It is
also obvious to the yugoslav regime that this situation is greatly
increasing the danger of its positiom, since it is bound to arouse
the interest of the USSR.
While these important things go on, and while the
Yugoslav regime continues to ponder the possibilities of a new
policy, the domestic affairs of the country continue as yet in the
old track. The Gommunist Party Congress of Zagreb has brought no
sensa&tional turns. It certainely was a new step in the Liberalizgatiol
of Party rules, but nothing fundamental really happened. Observers
neverthe&tss noted that, while much was said of a new titoist
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