State Security Directorate (Serbia)

State Security Directorate
Ресор државне безбедности
Secret police overview
Formed	13 March 1991
Preceding Secret police	UDBA;
Dissolved	1 August 2002
Superseding agency	BIA;
Jurisdiction	Serbia and Montenegro
Hauptsitz	Belgrade

The State Security Service (Serbian: Ресор државне безбедности, Resor državne bezbednosti; abbr. СДБ / SDB or РДБ / RDB), or simply State Security (Serbian: Државна безбедност, 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.

History

It was formed in March 1991 after the dissolution of State Security Administration (UDBA).^{[citation needed]} 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.	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^[a]
4	Goran Petrović (born in 1961)	26 January 2001	15 November 2001^[b]
-	Andreja Savić (born 1947)	15 November 2001	1 August 2002

Notes

^ Resigned in the aftermath of the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević.
^ Dismissed in the aftermath of the JSO mutiny.

References

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ "Serbian ministries, etc". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 1 December 2018.

External links

[3] Resigned in the aftermath of the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević.

[4] Dismissed in the aftermath of the JSO mutiny.

[icty-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.

[rulers-2] "Serbian ministries, etc". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 1 December 2018.

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