Ustroj in delovanje slovenske tajne politične policije v drugi polovici šestdesetih let dvajsetega stoletja

Abstract

The authors shed light on the organizational structure of the State Security Service in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia based on a systematic analysis of the corresponding preserved archival material kept by the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia. The organizational structure was grounded in the two-phase post-1966 restructuring of the service, following the IV (Brioni) Plenum of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. The first phase focused on the adaptation of the work area of the service. The second phase unfolded at the beginning of 1967 and aimed at the rapid establishment of the organizational structure of the Service. In 1969, a new regulation was adopted, which divided the SDV into the service headquarters and seven (after 1970 eight) analytical, technical, and operational departments. The organizational structure established in 1967 and modified and enlarged in 1969 functioned as the structural and operational foundation on which the secret political police in the Slovenian lands operated until Yugoslavia's break-up.