Nikola Tesla Electro-Technical Institute Reorganised in Belgrade

The Nikola Tesla Electro-Technical Institute formally begins operations in Belgrade on 1 July 1961, inheriting the older Institute for Survey of Electrical Phenomena Nikola Tesla under Regulation No. 148 issued 25 March 1961 by the People's Republic of Serbia. The reorganised institute is sponsored by the Federal Executive Board of the Republic of Serbia, the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Belgrade's Elektrosrbija Enterprise, and the Mosa Pijade Cable Factory in Svetozarevo. Founding researchers include B. Mitrakovic, J. Despotovic, V. Knezevic and D. Skenderdzic. The institute's work is documented in the Croatian-language periodical Casopis za elektroprivredu i elektroindustriju, then translated into English by the United States Joint Publications Research Service as JPRS report 16,375 on 27 November 1962 — evidence of continued American intelligence interest in Tesla-related research nearly two decades after Tesla's death.