| Summary/Abstract |
Our intention is to demonstrate, based on research, which elements support teamwork in HUMINT, or alternatively to show the advantage of using traditional intelligence methods. We conducted research among the operational intelligence officers of the intelligence services of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Slovenia. These intelligence services, which evolved in the 1990s, witnessed the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in 1992 and the establishment of new countries in the Balkan region, along with experiencing the area's cruelest wars. The Republic of Slovenia, the first to gain independence from the SFRY, was also the first to become a member of the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Bosnia and Herzegovina underwent a terrifying war. The Dayton Agreements set the elements for the establishment of the new country's intelligence community but today “Dayton” clearly needs an appropriate update. Montenegro, a country with a long tradition, was not directly entangled in the Balkan wars of the ‘90s. Due to its geo-strategic position, however, its territory and inhabitants were often a logistics base or a refuge for various paramilitary groups and individual war criminals, whether in the direction of western Bosnia and Herzegovina or towards northeast Kosovo.
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