Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NeslNAVAL AIDE) 443 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON DECLASSIFIED State By DEP NLT, 05181-11-85 Dept. E.O. 12065, Guidelines, Sec. March 3-402 6, 1982 December 15, 1952 TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS YUGOSLAV-TURKISH The Secretary General of the Turkish MILITARY TALKS Foreign Office has discussed with our Ambassador at Ankara the forthcoming visit of a Turkish mili- tary delegation to Yugoslavia. These discussions, originally scheduled for December 10, have been delayed until December 20 at the request of the Yugoslavs who indicated they expected to be able to discuss in principle and along general lines the common aims to be reached. It will be recalled that when a Greek mili- tary delegation arrived at Belgrade in early December they were not prepared to enter into substantive discussions and the con- versations were postponed. Although it is not confirmed, the Turks have some expectation that a Greek military delegation will arrive in Belgrade at the same time as theirs. The Turkish delegation has been in- structed that anything discussed or conclusions reached must be ad referendum to two governments and must be acceptable to NATO. The Turkish Secretary General has stated that if the results of the visit are hopeful the Turks would then talk with the US, Britain, and France. He emphasized that Turkey does not wish to do anything outside of NATO which would interfere with its NATO responsibilities; that Turkey, Yugoslavia and Greece cannot make an alliance which ignores NATO but that the problem remains to find a linkage between Yugoslavia and the West which must be acceptable to Yugoslavia and NATO. TRIESTE In discussing with De Gasperi the recent US proposal looking to a solution of the Trieste problem, Ambassador Bunker reemphasized the practical limitation on what can be accomplished with Tito and the fact that we have had no clear indication that Tito. would accept even the Capodistria line solution. He stressed that Trieste itself was a TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORIVATTON