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es Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6 “ SECRET/CONTROL ~ U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 25X1A ~4A- an officer serving with an unidentified division in Serbia was relieved of his duties and denounced to a military tribunal by a political commissar for having held a conversation with soldiers on duty near the border. Having the best of intentions, he had talked of the Bulgarians not as being Comin-~ formists but rather as being Nationalist elements traditionally hostile to Yugoslavia. Among his other mistakes, this officer had also affirmed that the assassin of King Alexander I was a Bulgarian, The Political Commissariat of the Army has also forbidden the transfer to Croatian Territory of units composed exclusively of Croats, As a result of frequent manifestations on the part of officers of Croat origin this political trend is being followed very strictly. Relations among officers ' of various Yugoslav nationalities are generally good. It is interesting to note that, in a report to the Politburo on the disposition and comportment of the army, the Supreme Political Commissariat of the Yugoslav Armed Forces had declared that officers of Moslem faith are among the most devoted to the regime, ; : 25X1A | Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6