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    "ocrText": "-2-\nSECRFT\nMACEDONIA. DIFFERENCES SOLVED BY OSTENSIBLE ABOLITION OF FRONTIERS AND\nINCORPORATION OF MACEDONIA WITHIN balKan FEDERATION. ZACHARIADES NOT\nSATISFIED WITH THIS SINCE IT VIOLATED HIS PROMISE TO GREEK PEOPLE THAT NO\nPART OF GREECE WOULD BE GIVEN UP. UNDER PRESSURE FROM MOLOTOV AND ZHDANOV,\nMARKO GIVEN OSTENSIBLE LEADERSHIP FREE GOVERNMENT WITH IOANNIDES AS\nPOLITICAL COMMISSAR.\n5. ACCORDING GORKY, MOLOTOV DECIDED FREE GOVERNMENT BE ANNOUNCED\n23 DECEMBER AND RADIO STATIONS BELGRADE AND ALBANIA BE PLACED AT ITS\nDISPOSAL. SEAT OF GOVERNMENT TO BE IN YUGOSLAVIA WITH SUBCOUNCIL\nTEMPORARILY LOCATED IN SAMARINA IN GRAMMOS MOUNTAINS. EVERY EFFORT TO\nBE MADE TO SEIZE AND HOLD SUFFICIENT AREA TO PERMIT SEAT OF GOVERNMENT TO\nBE IN GREECE.\n6. GORKY STATED THAT WITHIN PERIOD OF 3 MONTHS, FREE GOVERNMENT TO\nBE RECOGNIZED BY ALBANIA, YUGOSLAVIA, HUNGARY, POLAND AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA.\nRECOGNITI ON BY TRUMANIA OBSTRUCTED BY KING MICHAEL WOULD BE GIVEN AFTER\nMICHAEL DETHRONED WITHIN 3 MONTHS FOLLOWING COMINTERN DECISION. FOR\nPRACTICAL REASONS, RUSSIA WILL NOT GIVE RECOGNITION BUT WILL GIVE FULL\nMILITARY AND MORAL SUPPORT. ARMY OF GENERAL TOLBUKIN WILL PROVIDE 200\nTRUMANA\nMOTOR CARS, 12 ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS AND 14 TANKS. YUGOSLAVIA WILL PROVIDE\nNew is SERVICER\n\"NATIONAL\n70 LIGHT TANKS AND 60 ARMOURED CARS AS WELL AS WEAPONS, SUPPLIES AND\nVOLUNTEER UNITS. ALBANIA WILL SUPPLY VARIOUS TYPES HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT AND\nMILITARY SUPPLIES LEFT BEHIND BY ITALIANS. THESE WOULD BE GIVEN IMMEDIATELY\nTO ENABLE ATTACKS AGAINST CITIES. also, RUSSIA WILL PROVIDE 14 AEROPLANES\nAND OFFICERS IN GREEK UNIFORM. PLANES WILL CARRY RED STRIP AND LEFT WING\nAND BLUE STRIP ON RIGHT WING WITH HAMMER AND SICKLE SUPER-IMPOSED. GERMAN\nSECRET"
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