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Josip Broz Tito person

also: Tito, Joseph Tito

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Josip Broz Tito overthrew Yugoslavia book_quoted
“In addition, there was socialist Yugoslavia, which after Tito's break with Stalin in 1947, represented an important Balkan partner for American and particularly British diplomacy. For this reason, representatives of separatist Croats, Serbs…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 44:39
Josip Broz Tito targeted_for_regime_change Miklós Horthy documented
“repeatedly reached secret verdicts that they believed necessary to construct the post-war Germany. As early as the summer of 1945, Murphy was willing to defy U.S. treaty obligations concerning high-ranking Nazis and Axis collaborators when …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 40:12
Josip Broz Tito targeted_for_regime_change Trieste documented
“But Joseph Tito's well-organized Yugoslav partisans regarded the city and its environment as part of a liberated Yugoslavia, and they opposed the U.S.-British initiative. The inter-allied clash over what might otherwise be an obscure seapor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 44:37
Alexander Kirk spied_on Josip Broz Tito host_asserted
“the hardline policy against the Soviet Union. Kirk convinced himself and Washington that Tito's forces were acting as a cat's paw of the Soviet Union and that the Yugoslav claim to the port was an example of aggression. Winston Churchill an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 45:32

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Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background
▶ 42:39 During World War II, MI6 had worked with those Yugoslav partisans like Tito, so they had this relationship. And so Stalin never trusted him, even though he was probably loyal. Anyways, they had this split. And then after the Cold War, the U…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 44:37 But Joseph Tito's well-organized Yugoslav partisans regarded the city and its environment as part of a liberated Yugoslavia, and they opposed the U.S.-British initiative. The inter-allied clash over what might otherwise be an obscure seapor…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 45:05 and criticized his adventurism in backing left-wing nationalist guerrillas in the Taris area and in Greece. But that was not how things appeared in Washington. The chief U.S. political advisor on the scene, Alexander Kirk, K-I-R-K, had been…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 49:49 Ideological-driven U.S. conviction that Tito was simply a pawn of the Soviet Union expanded what was in reality a local dispute with Tito into a more fundamental clash between superpowers. The Soviets saw their action during the port crisis…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 51:12 Tito's government made repeated details requests of the Western allies to turn over scores of Yugoslavian Nazis and collaborators who had fallen into the U.S. and British hands. Most of those requests were straightforward and not controvers…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 52:09 but the defeated anti-Tito faction in Yugoslavia had powerful friends abroad, not the least of whom was Pope Pius XII. For the Pope, the militantly Catholic Ustasis seemed to be a viable alternative to Tito, and the Pope and leading Croatia…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 53:53 repeatedly intervened to block any cooperation. The U.S. commitments in the Moscow Declaration at Yalta was thrown out the window. Conservative nationalist and monarchist Yugoslavians lobbied on behalf of the Yugoslav leader Draža Mihailovi…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 54:18 vacillated during the war between an alliance with the West against Hitler and an alliance with Hitler, Yugoslav minority leaders, notably the Slovenes, pressured U.S. congressmen on behalf of the old comrades, who records during the war ha…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 54:47 Pressures combined with a geopolitical confrontation over the port, the State Department suspended authorization for the transfer of prisoners to the Yugoslav government on the bureaucratic pretext of the port conflict. Though State continu…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 58:02 Didn't have a clue what was happening, and we in Washington know better. In a related development, the Yugoslavs formally requested the transfer of Nikola Rusnovic, a leading Ustasi ideologue, whom the wartime Croatian regime had appointed …
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b
▶ 40:12 repeatedly reached secret verdicts that they believed necessary to construct the post-war Germany. As early as the summer of 1945, Murphy was willing to defy U.S. treaty obligations concerning high-ranking Nazis and Axis collaborators when …
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6
▶ 44:39 In addition, there was socialist Yugoslavia, which after Tito's break with Stalin in 1947, represented an important Balkan partner for American and particularly British diplomacy. For this reason, representatives of separatist Croats, Serbs…