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.
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