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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060056-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: January 1, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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Views on .possible Trieste settlement--Acting US Political
Advisor Judd in Trieste transmits the view of General Airey,
Commander of the British-US Zone, that the Allied Military
Government (AMG) in Trieste should be terminated before
the expected end of the European recovery program in 1952.
According to Judd, General Airey believes that AMG's pro-
blems are sure to increase and that Allied withdrawal now
is likely to be less awkward than at a later date. Airey also
expressed the opinion that although British and US pressure
may be necessary, present circumstances are favorable for
direct Italo-Yugoslav negotiations on the Trieste problem.
Airey believes that the Allies should retreat as little as
possible from their present stand that the entire Trieste
territory be returned to Italy and that negotiations should
be prolonged at least until Atlantic Pact arrangements near
completion, Judd comments that he personally favors, as
a means of obtaining some indication of Tito's intentions, a
preliminary and informal approach to the Yugoslavs with
the clear statement that "the US would be unable to support
Yugoslav territorial and other claims."
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