Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/misc.4188
Secret Action „Igre 79“: Mediterranean Games and Yugoslav Secret Services
Zlatko Begonja
; Department of history, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Luka Knez
; Department of history, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
Based on the archival sources and relevant literature, the authors analyze the activities of the Yugoslav State Security Service during the preparation and supervision of the VIII Mediterranean Games in 1979. This research is focused primarily on the working methods of intelligence structures, and especially the methods of recruiting and utilizing informants, as well as the operational measures of surveillance and monitoring of suspicious persons and (potential) enemies of the communist order. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the level of state repression and surveillance, which remained one of the basic characteristics of the Yugoslav system up until the disintegration of the state.
Keywords
VIII Mediterranean Games; State Security Service, Yugoslavia; repression; secret surveillance; informants; Croatian emigration
Hrčak ID:
306574
URI
Publication date:
24.7.2023.
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