State Security Service (FR Yugoslavia)

The State Security Service (Serbian: Ресор државне безбедности, romanized: Resor državne bezbednosti; abbr. СДБ / SDB or РДБ / RDB), or simply State Security (Serbian: Државна безбедност, romanized: Državna bezbednost; abbr. ДБ / DB), was the security agency within the Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia tasked with protecting the country from internal threats.

State Security Service
Ресор државне безбедности
Resor državne bezbednosti
Državna bezbednost
Secret police overview
Formed13 March 1991 (1991-03-13)
Preceding Secret police
Dissolved1 August 2002 (2002-08-01)
Superseding agency
JurisdictionSerbia and Montenegro
HeadquartersBelgrade

History

It was formed in March 1991 after the dissolution of State Security Administration (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.[1] Among those were Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers), Special Operations Unit (Red Berets) and Scorpions.[1]

Officially, the Special Operations Unit (JSO) was incorporated into the State Security Service not before 1996.

Directors

Source: [2]

Status
  Denotes service as acting Director
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Took office Left office
1 Zoran Janaćković
(1939–2015)		 31 October 1990 30 December 1991
2 Jovica Stanišić
(born 1950)		 1 January 1992 26 October 1998
3 Radomir Marković
(born 1946)		 27 October 1998 25 January 2001[lower-alpha 1]
4 Goran Petrović
(born in 1961)		 26 January 2001 15 November 2001[lower-alpha 2]
– Andreja Savić
(born 1947)		 15 November 2001 1 August 2002

See also

Notes
  1. Resigned in the aftermath of the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević.
  2. Dismissed in the aftermath of the JSO mutiny.

References
  1. Carla Del Ponte/Serge Brammertz (10 July 2008). "The Prosecutor vs. Jovica Stanišić & Franko Simatović - Third Amended Indictment" (PDF). International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  2. "Serbian ministries, etc". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
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