KOS (Yugoslavia)

The Counterintelligence Service or KOS (Serbo-Croatian: Kontraobavještajna služba, Контраобавештајна служба; Slovene: Kontraobveščevalna služba; Macedonian: Контраразузнавачка служба) was the counterintelligence service of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) that existed from 1946 until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. In 1992, the Security Administration continued its work in Serbia and Montenegro.

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]).

gollark: Hey, what if I allow length-terminated strings to have length-terminated lengths represented as strings *to arbitrary depths*?
gollark: Poe's law applies to reality, evidently.
gollark: PRs welcome!
gollark: It tries between 1 and 4 bytes and sees if any work.
gollark: It's not a length terminated int, just 1 to 4 bytes some endianness.

See also

References
  1. BORR Terrorism News: Yugoslav Army's Central Intelligence Unit: Clandestine Operations Foment War Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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