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THE SITUATION IN YUGOSLAVIA. NOTE s: "Intelligence Digest" has published in N2 161 of April 1952 a news=story based on a story in the "Tiroler Tageszeitung" of March 4th concerning an alleged escape of Colonel Jachelic. It is very regrettable that in this case something was published without due checking of the sources of this alleged report. Our checks in Trieste have shown, that the whole story is fully untrue. It is the résult/of either the deliberate lie of the corr: spondent, or, more likely still, a deliberate plant by the re-activated Deminfom ( see Intelligence Digest, seme issue, page 14 ). In general it is important to call the attention of "Intelligence Digest" tol the fact, that stories emanating from Trieste are to be taken with more than usual care. The Commgnist machinery in that town, as directed by the first-class Agent Vittorio Vidali, is more deadly efficient than in most other places on the continent, Under these conditions it is suggested that future publications of that kind be first submitted to a careful double=check, very startling has t . place, but many smaller moves heve shown that the regime ; inues its old policy : namely to try to preserve as much 4s bessible of its basic Conmunist tenets without to much antagonizing the Americans on whom one has to rely for the most essential help. This fundamental difficulty is the reason for the vac= Cilation of the country's policy, for the often surpeising lack of clarity in the directives, and for moves which oftentimes are in both directions at the same time. The most interesting in this connection has been the In the political situation of the past month, nothing 2 + gious freedom and tolerance, The latest moves nevertheless were again in the opposite sense. There was first the move of giving ter ae.
