JUGOSLAV SPIES
Two Men Sent To Gaol
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) BELGRADE, May 17. A Jugoslavian court yesterday sentenced two men to terms of imprisonment with hard labour on charges of having worked for a foreign intelligence service whose alm was to set up an espionage netw’ork in Jugoslavia. The official Jugoslav news agency reported that one of them, Stevan Stevanovic. former counsellor at the Macedonian Reclamation Centre, received five years, and Aleksandar Stefanovski, an engineer employed by the Macedonian Secretariat of Industry, received four years. They were said to have worked with another man, Vlastimir Popovic, who was recently sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment with hard labour, the British United Press reported. In Tirana, Albania, 10 Albanians were on trial charged with espionage and plotting against Albania in co-opera-tion with Jugoslavia, Greece and the United States, Tirana radio reported, according to Reuter. All were charged with "hatching a plot to subjugate and dismember Albania,” the radio said. It gave no details of the occupations or positions of the 10 accused.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 14
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