THE COMINFORM RESOLUTION DENOUNCING MARSHAL TITO AND THE OTHER TOP YUGOSLAV COMMUNISTS MAY REPRESENT A DESPERATE ATTEMPT BY THE KREMLIN TO DISCIPLINE TITO

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2013
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• Publication Date: June 29, 1946
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Cemintome meantime demeeneing harehal Tit.wet the
other top ?oseelsw CessiOalets way sepreemat a deoperate attempt by the
Irealin to Alseipline rite ad restore stylist Subemestimeal Ossemmeist
esmtwol ever the mere astioaalist Toeseler Commalet Potty. Per the
first time. the Irealis has been oblige& to dieelpline a national
Osemimiet Pest, latish offetrole all the inetrumeats of power la the
state. Ilessel 0411111111111ilia Party aleakeels apparently beim peeled Ina-
fectusl eat the Kremlin haw bess. forest to the distastefel aresseity
of airing pabliely & gestot?latollite disegremmutt. thereever. throe*
Its pablie ilsioselation of Tito. the VSsa Urn osertuuts4 Tsetelostsi
with the tameliate ariemitr of deterstidne its future sulatieaship
with the Soviet bloc
Althea* the peosibility exists that tit* emit his aseesiatee
are in Seriet meted, that the Ceidafere reselatiee vas desiipked
to owlets his fall frees power mid crawl.*** the deetreetiost if his
prestige. the best amilable iniIrrmatima indiestes that fito sed. his
*Ikea ere still la sentrelIa Tegeolawia. It is emlitely that OW
Imalle weld bam *ailed woe the Caitstelli It it seal bore disposed
of rite free within. liereerer. mush & oeup within the Navels, Com-
mvelet Party would prebabl7 net tare Use promoted by may publicity.
Ia deterninieg their meatieut to the Oesdnform aetima. the
amused Ilesseler Ossmaists am fess& with the realisatlen that they
see nein as statement shish will pormemently heal the breath Wawa
them sad the Itremlin. Complete ataissiee of milt by Tito sod his
lieutenants would net may de little toward leeseniag tb. Ina&
ii?tinidatafin 4111almbe the. but well probably meel-
erste the peones. Os the other beet, Vito ix probably seluctaat to
risk at this time a owlet* break with the Kreelin by flatly denying
the Ooninfem amessatimes.
Coneseasetly, lite* s meet probable immediate reaction will be
to issue a temporising statoeset in order to poetpeme a flail desists*.
I* the later's, Tito sea be aspected to (I) take stops to aseeelidate
his Position vitida 1seeeltr1et4 (2) extend esetious feelers to deter-
Mae Western reastion if l'admelavia ehould vithdreg free the Soviet nes;
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and (e) attempt to drive a bargain with the Kremlin which 411 grant
TadmilavIc greater autonomy within the Soviet bloc while simultaneously
delaying effective Soviet retaliation.
The Tito-Stalin rift will probebly have no eignifioant effect
on the other Satellites immediately. The Communist regimes in eastern
Europe are firmly under Moscow control and are dominated by old-line
Communists trained in oscow. In TUgoslavic, howevtr, the Communist
Party hat its roots within the country and has no internctionalints of
the stature of Llmitrov in 'Bulgaria, Panker in Rumania, Gottwald in
Oseehoslovakia. or Berman in Poland. These "internationalists" can
effsetively control any attempte by *nationalist" elements to waste
Tito. Moreover, the Zremlin will probably tighten its secnritY con-
trols over the other Satellite:: in order to prevsnt a recuurence of
Ti to s deviation.
R. E. TaLLIMICZTTM
sear Admiral. USN
Direetor of Central intelligence
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