Stranica 2 [2]
OCR
XeAw 20 December 52s s page two " 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 discovered 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 6. intents = sda abae SSEL, Ath Maal aos 2 Alaa
