EXTENSION OF TITOIST COMMUNISM EASTWARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200010050-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: March 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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U.S. Officials Only
CENTRAL INTELLIQOCE AGENCY
INFORMATIO REPORT
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Extension of Titoist Communism Eastward
TNI UNITES STATES. ?171115 TNI NEANINS OP TITLE IS. SECTIONS 79
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
the USSR and Titoms-government are multiplying. It is even said that the Central
Committee of the Communist Union in Yugoslavia has secretly resumed relations with
the Central Committee of the Soviet Covaunist Party-and this with the tacit
approval of the Ministry of the Interior at Belgrade. Nothing is said of the
attitude of the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry.
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2. Under the terms of the secret agreement between the USQ;R Communists and the
Yugoslav Communists, it is reported, the USSR will permit the Yugoslav Communists
rights equal with their own in the effort to spread Communist doctrine in the Middle
East and in Southeastern Asia.
3. Special institutions have been set up for this purpose. The first of these is to
be called the Party Institute. Its purpose is to train special propagandists,
who will be sent into Asia. The second is called the Institute for Political
Questions. It Is to receive Communists and Socialists from Oriental countries,
including Arabs, who desire Yugoslav training in Leninist-Titoist principles. This
center for student propagandists will operate in Belgrade, in the building of the
Higher Training School of the UDB (formerly OZNft, the Yugoslav espionage and
counterespionage service).
4. The Soviet Communists see noi:hing to be alarmed about in the Yugoslav initiative:
The USSR Communists think that this will bring into the Communist fold a good many
advanced Sociaiists,,,Indians, Burmese, Siamese, and Indonesians, among others. Even
if the coriverts adopt the Titolut brand of Communism, they wid.i at least have
broken away from the official Socialism of the Vast, which has always been under
the influence of Western Socialists, who have both means and experience.
U.S. Officials Only
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5. The 4ow=xist educational center in Berlin would be inspired by KUTV (Komunistki
Univerzitet Trujasci Vostoka, or 'Pomuunist Labor University of the Fast), which
was originally founded by 1'?talin. The purpose of RUTV was to prepare ?:'oamunist activ-
ists for all the countries of the East.
6. The Milovan a+jilas affair is one of the episodes in a surreptitious struggle that
has been going on between those Yugoslav communists who are secretly homesick for
the Cominform, on the one hand, and moderate Titoists who favor democratization
of the Yugoslav regime, on the other. njilas was one of the men who managed tht-
break with Moscow, a fact that must never be forgotten. He has been accused of
flirting with Bevan. His renunciation of Leninist-?talinist theories was flagrant.
The "hard" Commaaists of Yugoslavia were looking for a chance to smash TJilas,
anyhow, because of his deviationism. The rest of the motives underlying the )jilwt.
affair are merely dua to a desire to get rid of an opponent. This is, today, an
aCcuuplisneu x'aci;.
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