Popovic, Zarko Rista

Biographical/Historical Note

• 1896: Born, Belgrade, Serbia
• 1905 - 1912 : Attended Cadet School in Odessa, Russia. Graduated Military Academy (Artillery) in Petrograd, Russia
• 1914 - 1919 : Served Serbian army in Serbia; twice wounded in action
• 1919 - 1921 : Member of the Serbian military mission in Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1921 - 1923 : Attended the Ecole supérieure de guerre in Paris, France
• 1924 - 1927 : Served with a regiment in the Yugoslav Army, deployed to the general staff college in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
• 1927 - 1932 : General staff officer on various assignments with the Yugoslav army, including a detail as Aide de Camp to His Majesty King Alexander of Yugoslavia
• 1932 - 1935 : Military attaché in Rome, Italy
• 1935 - 1936 : Chief of staff for an infantry division in Yugoslavia
• 1936 - 1940 : Director of intelligence, general staff, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
• 1940 - 1941 : Military Attaché in Moscow, U.S.S.R.
• 1941 - 1942 : Director of intelligence, Yugoslav Force in Egypt
• 1942: Expelled from the Yugoslav Military after the Yugoslav army "Cairo Affair"
• 1942 - 1948 : Commissioned by British military authority; served as Colonel with the British Forces in the Middle East in Egypt
• 1948 - 1949 : Co-partner and chief translator at a translating office in London
• 1951 - 1952 : Worked as an inspector with a South African insurance company in Nairobi, Kenya
• 1989: Died

From the guide to the Zarko Rista Popovic Papers, 1917-1980, (Hoover Institution Archives)