The State Security Service ( sr, Ресор државне безбедности, Resor državne bezbednosti;
abbr. СДБ / SDB or РДБ / RDB) or simply State Security ( sr, Државна безбедност, Državna bezbednost; abbr. ДБ / DB), was the
security agency
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within the
Ministry of the Interior
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Lists of current ministries of internal affairs
Named "ministry"
* Ministr ...
of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
tasked with protecting the country from internal threats.
History
It was formed in March 1991 after the dissolution of
State Security Administration
The State Security Service ( hr, Služba državne sigurnosti, sr, Служба државне безбедности; mk, Служба за државна безбедност; sl, Služba državne varnosti), also known by its original name ...
(UDBA). It was dissolved in July 2002 and replaced with
Security Information Agency (BIA) on 1 August 2002.
Special forces
According to the indictment in the series of trials before the
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the ''Yugoslav Special Forces'', also known as ''Yugoslav Paramilitaries'', were secretly established by or with the assistance of the State Security Service.
Among those were
Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers),
Special Operations Unit (Red Berets) and
Scorpions
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.
Officially, the
Special Operations Unit (JSO) was incorporated into the State Security Service not before 1996.
Directors
Source:
; Status
See also
*
State Security Administration
The State Security Service ( hr, Služba državne sigurnosti, sr, Служба државне безбедности; mk, Служба за државна безбедност; sl, Služba državne varnosti), also known by its original name ...
(UDBA)
*
Security Intelligence Agency
The Security Intelligence Agency ('' sr, Безбедносно-информативна агенција / Bezbednosno-informativna agencija''; abbr. ''BIA'') is a national intelligence agency of Serbia. The agency is responsible for collecting, r ...
(BIA)
*
Security Administration (FR Yugoslavia)
Notes
References
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