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Dragomir Bondžić, PhD
Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

 

Prof. Martin Previšić, PhD
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

 

STEVAN DEDIJER IN THE DOCUMENTS OF THE STATE SECURITY SERVICE FROM MID-1950s TO MID-1980s

God. XLIII, 2/2025, str. 439–464
https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2025.2.bon.439-464

 

APSTRAKT/REZIME:

The paper deals with reasons, course, intensity and ways of surveillance of activities of physicist and intelligence agent Stevan Dedijer by the State Security Service authorities (SDS) of the Republic of Croatia between the mid-1950s and the mid-1980s. The surveillance of Stevan Dedijer was initiated in the mid-1950s because of his support to Milovan Đilas, contacts with his brother Vladimir Dedijer, with đilasovci (Đilas’s supporters) and with foreign diplomats. Upon his departure abroad in 1961, S. Dedijer was mentioned in the SDS documents only occasionally, when he was visiting Yugoslavia, but in the early 1980s he once again came into focus of the state security authorities as an emigrant and expert in the field of intelligence operations. The paper is primarily based on Dedijer’s dossier run by Croatian SDS, which has been kept at the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb and was amended with the data from Dedijer’s autobiography, other archives and available literature.

 

KLJUČNE REČI: Stevan Dedijer, Milovan Đilas, Vladimir Dedijer, State Security Service, espionage, nuclear politics, Vinča Institute, Ruđer Bošković Institute

 

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