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Slučaj Aleksandra Rankovića prema dokumentima KOS-a: Da li je bilo prisluškivanja?
The Case Of Aleksandar Ranković According To The Documents Of The Yugoslav Army Counterintelligence Service

Author(s): Bojan B. Dimitrijević, Svetko Kovač
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd

Summary/Abstract: The article reviews the issue of the affair and the political fall of the Aleksandar Ranković in 1966. Ranković was the establisher and the main responsible man for the work of the Yugoslav security services after the 1944. In June 1966, he was accused for the illegal taping of the Tito and his wife Jovanka in their premises. It was the pretext for further accusations for his conservative political attitude, which then used for the establishment of the wider accusations presented to the wider party circles at party Central Committee gathering at Brioni island on the 1st July 1966, known as the Brionski Plenum. After this event, Ranković and some of his close collaborators from the Yugoslav and Serbian Security services were removed from political life. This article discuss the accusations based on the research in the archives of the Yugoslav Army Counterintelligence services, which were responsible for the investigation on the technical side of the accusations of the alleged Ranković and security taping of the Tito’s activities’ in summer of the 1966.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-22
  • Page Count: 14