State Security Service (FR Yugoslavia)
The State Security Service ( or ; abbr. СДБ / SDB or РДБ / RDB) or simply State Security (; 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). 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. Among those were Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers), Special Operations Unit (Red Berets) and Scorpions. Officially, the Special Operations Unit (JSO) was incorporated into the State Security Service not before 1996.