ODJEK BRIONSKOG PLENUMA NA SLUŽBU UNUTRAŠNJIH POSLOVA 1966 - 1970.
THE INFLUENCE OF THE BRIONI PLENUM ON THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS 1966 - 1970

Summary/Abstract: The available information pertaining to the period above shows that the reorganization of state security in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was thorough in its legal, personnel, organizational, and archival aspects. State security was carried over to republican level, while in the years immediately following the Brioni Plenum the entire Federal Secretariat of Internal Affairs was marginalized and subjected to a drastic cut-down. Cadres were assigned to official duties and positions according to criteria depending on republican and national affiliation, a new policy whose various controversial aspects would become evident in the period to come. The entire department of Internal Affairs experienced a process of swift additional training and education of personnel, whose members were now selected according to their professional qualifications. The complex conditions in the sphere of security required increased engagement of police and state security forces, and the need was felt to establish special police units for various crisis situations in the country. This idea was, however, not put in effect before the seventies, after several terrorist acts had taken place. Revision of the department’s activities and the destruction of its records led state security to restrict its activities aimed at the general supervision of citizens. The remaining information and the specific political tendency of those who ordered this revision in policy leaves room for doubt in regard to the content of the important (historical) material that was destroyed, and to the true intentions of the people in charge of this campaign, which may have served the additional purpose of eliminating documents and records compromising to them and of clearing the way for their future political activity.

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