BELGRADE INCIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100170091-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: May 24, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/11: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100170091-6
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THE WASHINGTON POST
24 May 1980
ACX ANDERSON I
Belgrade Incident Intelligence
reports indicate that Soviet President
Leonid Brezhnev, taking 'advantage of
President Carter's absence, scored.a hit
at Marshal Tito's ?funeral, in Belgrade.
Brezhtteir=unproved.'-his --relatiorisi'n$t
on!Kwitlrthe Yugoslavs but. with-.ot1-i4r
Europearriehders who attended, the-f-
neral:..g.rr' tom r
Brezhnev- sowed. iseeds- if-Belgrade;
according to: the reports;;which: could
1ead,_to;,a,; Soviet peace:,;; offensive' in
Europe; The real purpose, of course,
would" be to '. wean. away.. America's
iriendaandalhes au ', ;: f:,;..,.
The, American ambassador to Yugo-
slavia - Lawrence. , Eagleburger; j, had
urged Carter to attend the Tito funeral.
Now the ambassador' has:Ziecom-
mended. ? that `Carter,'- make, a'-'special
state visit to YugIoslavia 'to-Indo'the
damage.
CL ?TED
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/11: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100170091-6