Војна обавештајна служба у Краљевини СХС/Југославији 1918–1941
Military Intelligence Service in the Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia, 1918–1941

Summary/Abstract: The Military Intelligence Service in the Kingdom of SHS / Yugoslavia was developed in continuity with the Military Intelligence Service of the Kingdom of Serbia. In the period between the two world wars the service was professionalized and branched out in accordance with global trends concerning development of military intelligence services of that time, important intelligence network with respect to the possibilities of the country, as well as staff that were able to achieve remarkable results even in European framework, were created. In the first years of work, major efforts of the service were directed to intelligence and counterintelligence work directed towards hostile neighboring countries (Italy, Hungary, to an extent Austria, Albania and Bulgaria), and after 1938 main tasks of the service were monitoring activities of Germany and Italy. Shortly after the outbreak of the World War II, infrastructure of the service, with approval from the highest levels of government (Prince Pavle Karadjordjevic), was placed to support war efforts of Great Britain against the Axis, while some parts of the service took active part in pro-British coup on the 27 March 1941. After the defeat of the Yugoslav Army in the April War in 1941, the service itself saw its end. However, its personnel and experience served later on as the basis for building military intelligence and security services in the Socialist Yugoslavia.

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