CIA Reading Room cia-rdp80t00246a069000460001-5: YUGOSLAV NAVY: ORGANZATION, PERSONNEL, INSTALLATIONS, ORDNANCE

gH Declassified in Part N (=) be AR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ‘This material contsins information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title * 18, U.8.C. Gees, 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to en unsuthorized person is prohibited by law. CONFIDENTIAL SU UM 5 NO FOREIGN DISSEM 50X1-HUM ee a ce countryYugoslavia REPORT SUBJECT Yugoslav Navy: Organization, DATE Distr. 124Us 50X1-HUM Personnel, Itstallations, Ordnance ‘963 ; NO. PAGES 1 REFERENCES RD DATE OF INFO. PLACE & DATE ACQ. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 50X1-HUM ~ 50X1-HUM Yugoslav Navy organization, personnel, installations, ships, and equipment. The report includes the following: f Ll. General description of the central and peripheral organizations of the : Yugoslav Navy. (The information is apparently prior to the reorganization of the Armed Forces which took place in the fall of 1962, inasmch as Admiral Jerkovic is named as the "Supreme Commander of the Yugoslav Navy", with headquarters at Split.) 50X1-HUM 2. Panoramic Survey of Naval Defense Installations, beginning at the northern tip of Yugoslavia and extending down the Adriatic coast to the Albanian border. This description is graphically presented on the map attached to the revort. | 3. Naval Training Schools, with details on staff members and types of curricula in several cases. 4. Communications: a general description of the Naval radio-telegraphy network (Komanda Mreza). Data on equipment and scope of the various telecommunications lines are not included. ; 50X1-HUM ‘ Distribution of Attachment as noted: Navy: Retention of 1 copy of Italian text and translation ' 50X1-HUM ORR: Retention of 1 copy of translation 5 4 ‘ 3 CONFIDENTIAL — ; 3 NO FOREIGN DISSEM SroupeR aaa ATEN TIO SAE x [Te TR DECLASSIPIOATION ° {Note: Washington dirtribution indicated by distribution by INFORMATION REPORT. INFORMATION RE iS Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/27 : CIA-RDP80T00246A069000460001-5 Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/27 : CIA-RDP80T00246A069000460001-5 GEWTRAL AND PERIPHERAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE YUGOSLAV NAVY 50X1-HUM began to Right after the war, the new Yugoslav regime Aevotel particular “attention to building up its navy, which was considered a basic fac\ tor in the natdeaet defense system. It accordingly constructed light, speedy units of limited draft designed for effective control of the Adriatic, and also suitable for navigation along the indented Dalmatian coastline. The regime also concerned itself with securing territorial defense by control of ‘the navigable rivers:!‘he Danube, the Sava, and the Drava, as well as lakes Ohrid and Prespa (located on the borders of Albania and Greece), for which purpose it created a special branch of the navy. The general command of the Yugoslav navy, whose headquarters are located at Hanes like the other armed services, comes under a single ministry of the government in Belgrade, namely, the MINISTARSTVO NARODNE OBRANE, or the Ministry of iapensas The General Headquarters of the Navy are located in a 5-story building on Riva Saveznicka Obale, north of the city and about one kilometer from President Tito's summer residence. "Serving at General Headquarters are the following regular and superior officers: : Admiral JERKOVIC Mate Supreme Commander of the Yugoslav Navy; . N : GROG 4 Excluged trom teste Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/27 : CIA-RDP80T00246A069000460001-5 Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/27 : CIA-RDP80T00246A069000460001-5 ‘ _RONHDENTIAL NoFoRN DISSEM Rear Admiral BOZANIC Andrija; and rm Ss ! Captain ZUZULJ Ljubo. : Under Ghai Géneralacdnntade are the; high commands in charge of ‘ollowing the/three operational areas of a oo region: uv lst Military Area at POT comprising the "northern sector" (from Capodistria tc ge S elit end pepe Area at SPApePO comprising the "central sector" (tron sao ra Metkovic); and the 3rd Military Area at KOTOR comprising the "southern sector" (from Metkovic to Ulcinj). ‘ The. river fleet, or "RATNA RIJECNA FLOTILA," also comes under the Ministry of Defense, but has its:own general headquarters at NOVI-SAD, subordinate to which are the river base commands of BELGRADE, NOVI-SAD, and SABAC, as well as the OHRID Lake base command for both Lake Prespa and lake Ohrid, Not included, probably because of their greater strategic importance, are the Lake SKADAR sevices, which come tinder the general hegdquarters at Spetete, S Pp fir The Radio-Telegraph Communication service also follows the same subdivision, and is directly subordinate to the Communication rhe at Boerne? The principal redio stations are the PREMONTURA Cope and Enkjise-otations. In these cities and in KOTOR are the main transmitting stations EL stazioni Sajeiuletiay for the respec« tive operationa