Possible Courses of Action by the Soviet Union in Order to Regain Complete Control Over Yugoslavia. Report by the Joint Intelligence Committee

(as I assume was the case with Finland in 1940). Neither of these conditions applies to Yugoslavia at the present moment. 6. You ask what alternatives are open to Stalin if he decides that Yugoslavia must be brought back into the fold. As was pointed out in my despatch under reference, the Cominform's tactics have so far been to foment dissatisfaction with Tito inside Yugoslavia, (a) among communists, by showing them the extent of the gulf which has been opened between them and their former comrades and by spreading rumours that Tito has been negotiating secretly with the imperialists; (b) among the workers and people in general, by increasing Yugoslavia's economic difficulties and claiming that these difficulties are the inevitable consequence of Tito's deviation; and possibly (c) among national minorities (Bulgarians, Hungarians and Albanians) in Yugoslavia.