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E.O.
DECLASSIFIED
11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, or (E) TOP
Date 6.26.25 1972
SECRES
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Chief Commissioner emphasizes that serious consequences
will result if this Italian beliof in AMG's presence is
allowed to go uncontradicted. He also points out the
deplorable effect on Allied prestige throughout Italy
if the Allied commitment made to Italy last September
that AMG would be set up in Venezia Giulia is not carried
out at least in Trieste. Italian feeling on this is
extremely strong.
Far from AMO having actually been set up in Venezia
Giulia, the Yugoslavs by a combination of bravado, bluff
and show of arms are getting things their own way. BBC's
broadcasting the outright lie that Partisan troops had
conquered Trieste before the British forces got there has
not helped the situation. SAC has demanded that BBC broad-
cast no commiques on the situation in Venezia Giulia
except those AFHQ issues or approves.
SAC has proposed a working arrangement with Tito
giving SAC military control of the port of Trieste and
the railway and roada from there to Austria via Gorizia.
"Full use will be made of any Yugoslav civil administra-
SERVICE
tion already set up and working satisfactorily", which
DOVER
means Yugoslav, not Allied, control of the area. This
is even less than Titó offered SAC on May 5 since Tito
also offered use of the port of Pola. Admiral Cunningham,
CINCMED, is anxious to use Pola but up to now SACMED has
overruled him. British JOS is urgently pressing American
JCS to agree to this arrangement, with a face-saving
clause that this does not affect the peace-tresty disposal
of "any pre-war Italian territory".
Kirk points out that this means the whole position
which the US has maintained with regard to Venezia Giulia
for the past several months is about to collapse. We are
even retreating further than the British position. He
observes that this withdrawal would in the eyes of the US
and world public opinion be interpreted as abandonment of
principles we have always held.
Tito
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