The Counterintelligence Service or KOS ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Kontraobavještajna služba, Контраобавештајна служба; sl, Kontraobveščevalna služba; mk, Контраразузнавачка служба) was the

counterintelligence Counterintelligence is an activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting activities to prevent espionage, sabotage, assassinations or ...

service of the

Yugoslav People's Army The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska ar ...

(JNA) that existed from 1946 until the

breakup of Yugoslavia The breakup of Yugoslavia occurred as a result of a series of political upheavals and conflicts during the early 1990s. After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

in 1991. In 1992, the Security Administration continued its work in

Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of ...

Founding and structure

KOS was formed in 1946 as one of the remnants of the Department for Protection of the People (OZNA), with State Security Administration (UDBA) forming the second, civilian, component of the new security and intelligence structure of

SFR Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yu ...

. In 1955 changed its name to Security Administration and relocated from the General Staff to State Secretariat of People's Defence, later Federal Secretariat of Peoples Defence.

Activities

Most information is still scant due to its classification as

military secret Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. Secrecy is often controvers ...

, but some can be traced in the media, especially during the Milošević tenure and the role played in the break-up of

SFRY The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yu ...

(e.g.

Operation Labrador Operation Labrador was a false flag operation carried out by the Yugoslav Air Force's Counterintelligence Service (KOS) in the Croatian capital city of Zagreb during the early stages of the Croatian War of Independence. It was devised as a serie ...

BORR Terrorism News: Yugoslav Army's Central Intelligence Unit: Clandestine Operations Foment War
).

References

External links

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, 'questioning' transcripts on Operations "Labrador" and "Opera".

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Founding and structure

Activities

See also

References

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