Counter-terrorism efforts of Slovenian intelligence-security system between 1945 and 1952

Po koncu 2. svetovne vojne, ko je politično oblast v Jugoslaviji v svoje roke v celoti prevzela Komunistična partija, ki je z avtoritarnimi prijemi izvedla radikalno preobrazbo političnega in gospodarskega sistema, je del jugoslovanske politične in vojaške emigracije ob podpori tujih obveščevalno-varnostnih služb z organiziranjem oziroma s povezovanjem že organiziranih ilegalnih skupin želel z oboroženim prevratom zrušiti novonastali komunistični režim. Na območju Slovenije so bile v obdobju prvih povojnih let med oboroženimi subverzivnimi skupinami najaktivnejše skupine »Matjaževe vojske«, ki so izvedle številne teroristične napade. V diplomskem delu so prikazane nekatere poglavitne metode, ki se jih je v boju zoper tem skupinam posluževal »Oddelek za zaščito ljudstva« oziroma od leta 1946 naprej »Uprava državne varnosti« kot osrednja služba tedanjega slovenskega obveščevalno-varnostnega sistema, ki je imela v postopkih zoper osumljence terorističnih kaznivih dejanj absolutno pristojnost ter je pri tem z usmeritvami določala tudi delo ostalih varnostnih organov. To delo je temeljilo na različnih tajnih oblikah delovanja, zlasti na uporabi tajnih sodelavcev.After the end of Second World War, when political power in Yugoslavia was completely taken over by the Communist Party, which carried out a radical transformation of the political and economic system with authoritarian approaches, a part of Yugoslav political and military emigration wanted to violently overthrow the newly formed communist regime. With the support of foreign intelligence-security services, they tried to either organize or unite already organized illegal groups for the purpose of an armed coup. Among the most active armed subversive groups in post-war Slovenia there were groups of so-called »Matjaž army«, which carried out numerous terrorist attacks. The diploma thesis presents some of the main methods, used in the fight against those groups by the Department for the Protection of the People and, since 1946, by the State Security Administration, the central service of the Slovenian intelligence-security system at that time. In proceedings against suspects of terrorist offenses, the State Security Administration had absolute jurisdiction and, as such, determined the work of other security bodies. That work was based on various forms of covert activities, particularly in the use of secret collaborators