OZNA was created as autonomous, military organization whose unitary structure and centralized leadership were to ensure a tough political line in the intelligence and counter-intelligence services.
OZNA was in direct command of counter-intelligence protection of military command posts, institutions, and units.
The operation of bourgeois cleansing was immediately launched by a special department of the Partisan Army, called OZNA, an abbreviation for one of many cynical Communist appellations meaning the Department for the Protection of the People.
OZNA was established in May 1944, and it was immediately introduced into Serbian towns upon Communist entrance.
The empty streets of the capital were flooded by OZNA agents.
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The task of carrying out this mission was handed over to the OZNA, which later, after Word War II, changed its name to the civilian police security apparatus, under the name of UDBA and the KOS.
The early OZNA chose as its first victim Dr. Ivan Protulipac, who was assassinated in Trieste, Italy, on January 31, 1946.
Protulipac was a founder of "The Eagle and Crusading Youth" in the former monarchic Yugoslavia.
This sudden awakening of the rule of law in the case of one of numerous private investigative agencies in Serbia surprised the public in Sumadija [central Serbia], since it was assumed by many that Ozna was doing what it was doing with tacit approval of, if not in close collaboration with the competent state institutions.
Let us recall that the Ozna agency became known in the domestic public and even abroad when it announced that it was looking for and working on the exchange of the missing participants in the most recent "Kosovo battle".
Since, despite huge media attention this exchange was covered with an impenetrable veil of secrecy, the district public prosecutor in Kragujevac requested that it be checked whether Ozna has a permit for this type of activity, then whether a crime was committed and finally that the identity of exchanged Serbs be established.
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Jovanovic says he co-operates with the Centre for Peace in the Balkans, which passes on details of his activities to the International Red Cross, KFOR and the Albanian government.
OZNA says that an Albanian Driza Meriti came to them offering 20.000 German marks to help find and release his son who was imprisoned somewhere in Serbia.
Clearly, the releases secured by OZNA could not have been achieved without the knowledge of the Serbian government and military courts of the Yugoslav Army.
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Owner and director of Ozna Zivadin Jovanovic says for Danas that the intermediary (between Ozna and Medit) at first expressed interest whether this private investigation agency from Kragujevac would look for missing Albanians, since it is claimed in Kosovo that it does look for abducted Serbs.
The mentioned intermediary, according to Jovanovic, was told during this contact that Ozna in this case would not work for money but that "it would be good to perform an exchange of Rusiti Medit for abducted Serbs who, according to reliable information, are held in private prisons in Drenica".
He adds that this was the first time that Ozna was looking for a missing ethnic Albanian, but that is has been contacted lately by another two families of Kosovo Albanians who are interested for the same type of service.
OZNA thus became a centralised security and intelligence organization with a single structure and uniform working methods throughout the territory that was later to become Yugoslavia.
4 OZNA was organised in four divisions: the first was in charge of operations abroad and on the occupied territory; the second operated on the liberated territory; the third had counterintelligence tasks in the NOV and POJ; and the fourth dealt with statistical and technical issues.
In March 1946, the First and the Second OZNA Divisions merged to form the State Security Service (UDB) at the Ministry of Internal Affairs; the Third OZNA Division was transformed into the Counterintelligence Service of the Yugoslav Army (KOS) as the Ministry of People's Defense.
Though the decision to "make a kill" had to be first reached at the very top of the late Yugoslav Communist regime, there was the whole spectrum of UDBA victims, particularly among former Croatian political emigres living under foreign Western jurisdictions.
Mass and individual killings were carried out through the OZNACommunist leadership during and immediately after World War II.
Following the dissolution of the pro-fascist NDH ("Independent State of Croatia") in 1945, the OZNA received the order to continue eliminating well-known Croats immediately after its first round of killings in the post-World War II era.
The assassination attempts were carried out by Yugoslav secret police (OZNA, UDBA) agents – although the decision "to make a kill" had first to be reached at the very top of the late Yugoslav Communist regime.
Among the Croatian people, this organization brings back bad memories, because it was through the OZNA that the Communist leadership carried out mass or individual killings during and immediately after Word War II.
From these figures it can be seen that for the period stretching from 1946 to 1990, the OZNA, the UDBA, and the KOS carried out over one hundred assassinations and/or assassination attempts against Croat émigrés.
The identity of exchanged Serbs, according to Jovanovic, cannot be revealed for now because two brothers and the father of one of released Serbs are still held in Albanian-run prisons in Kosovo.
"Ozna" searches for missing persons all over the world, and the data in connection with Kosovo are forwarded by the agency to the Center for Peace in the Balkans in Toronto and via this organization to the International Red Cross, the Albanian government and KFOR.
Ethnic Albanians are guarding the abducted Serbs well, in order to exchange them for true terrorists, because they are aware that 'foot soldiers' who haven't committed war crimes, will be released by the end of the year," said the owner of "Ozna", but added that "there is a solution for that as well".
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This was stated by Zivorad Jovanovic, the director and owner of the agency, at a press conference.
According to Jovanovic, the Albanians found out via Internet that "Ozna" was looking for three Serbs (from Pristina and Djakovica regions).
All legal rules were observed and the Albanian prisoners were released by the court," stressed Jovanovic, adding that "Ozna" is engaged in negotiations regarding the release of abducted policemen Ljubisa Biocanin and Miodrag Krstic.
He told the investigating judge and the Maribor press “that out of court killings were perpetrated by OZNA, which also possessed data on those arrested and killed in different districts”.
Lists of ‘hostile elements’ were being prepared by OZNA as early as during the war, so that the arrests of ‘agents and hostile elements’ could begin immediately after the ‘liberation’.
He was an OZNA general who, copying Vishinsky, did his best to insult and ridicule the defendants.
On May 13th 1944, by order of Supreme Commander, section is transferred into department for protection of the people at Committee for people's defense of National Committee for liberation of Yugoslavia.
By this OZNA has become central security organization covering entire Yugoslavia.
In the beginning OZNA was mostly doing intelligence work gathering information's for operational units, later it was more orientated to fighting spy's and fifth-column.
OZNA Joint Stock Company OJSC is a specialised enterprise which designs and manufactures equipment for development of oil fields and which has been established in the market of Russia and CIS since 1953.
Main products are: stationary and mobile units for measuring products from high and low molybdenum wells, drill compression-pump stations, transfer and booster pump stations, agent batchers, foam fire-fighting modules, oil quality and quantity measurement systems, spare parts to drill pumps and automated gas measuring units, boilers for different types of fuel.
All products are certified, new standard ISO 9001-2000 has been introduced.
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CIC information sheet, containing information possibly intercepted from OZNA on Ante Pavelic.
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From the US Army File on Ante Pavelic: A sheet detailing information acquired from unknown sources.
The four letters at the top - OZNA - would appear to indicate that this information was acquired from the Yugoslav secret police, which was known as OZNA at the time.
G-2 Rome received the following information dated 15 May 1947 from I.A.I.-RAAC.
