GENERAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100040064-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2002
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: October 12, 1949
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. British views on Soviet-Tito conflict- -According to US
Easy London, the present es Fiff&te of the British For-
eign Office concerning the Soviet-Tito conflict is that:
(a) the USSR is increasingly impatient with the continuance
of the Tito regime despite the Soviet Union's estimate that
time is on its side; (b) the Kremlin has been forced by the
failure of its economic and political pressure against Tito
to make new plans and will attempt to instigate armed
rebellion against Tito s Government, stopping short, how-
ever, of direct action by the Soviet Army; (c) direct mill-
tarry action by the Soviet Army is possible at a later dates
t this planned rebellion fails, unless the USSR becomes
persuaded that the invasion of Yugoslavia would start a
general war for which the Soviet Union is probably unpre-
pared; and (d) although the Yugoslav economic situation is
worse than previously estimated, only direct Soviet military
action can overthrow Tito if he can survive the winter,,
2@ Views on greed point board for Trieste--US Ambassador
a no 1'e rode expresses W-Re-w regarding the d l-
culties of obtaining Yugoslav collaboration in a proposed
joint -British-Yugoslav consultative board in the Free
Territory of Trieste, that the Yugoslavs are not prepared
at present to offer genuine cooperation in such an enterprise
and their participation in such a board is highly unlikely.
Cannon believes that Yugoslavia would not grant the western
powers an effective voice in fe Yugoslav Zone without de-
manding "'extravagant rights" in the Western Zone, He adds
that Tito's present position with the Cominform and with his
own party is such as to cause him to hesitate a long time
before embarking on so ""tangible an adventure of collabora-
tion'e with the West;,
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