KOS (Yugoslavia)
The Counterintelligence Service or KOS (Bosnian: Kontraobavještanja služba; Croatian: Protuobavještajna služba; Serbian: Контраобавештајна служба/Kontraobaveštajna služba; Slovene: Kontraobveščevalna služba; Macedonian: Контраразузнавачка служба) was the counterintelligence service of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) that existed between 1946 and the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. In 1992, the Security Administration continued its work in Serbia and Montenegro.
Contents
1 Founding and structure
2 Activities
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
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 Directorate (UDBA) forming the second, civilian, component of the new security and intelligence structure of SFR Yugoslavia.
Activities
Most information is still scant due to its classification as military secret, but some can be traced in the media, especially during the Milošević tenure and the role played in the break-up of SFRY (e.g. Operation Labrador[1]).
See also
Department of National Security (OZNA)
State Security Administration (UDBA)- Yugoslav People's Army
References
^ BORR Terrorism News: Yugoslav Army's Central Intelligence Unit: Clandestine Operations Foment War Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
External links
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, 'questioning' transcripts on Operations "Labrador" and "Opera".
- KOS @ GlobalSecurity.org
