CIA'S SECRET DOCUMENTS REVEALED ABOUT SFRY: They knew Yugoslavia will fall apart in 1970

American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) published in the middle of the month their charts on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the intelligence cartographic center.

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The former Yugoslavia is becoming more and more interesting in the seventies, a particularly intriguing CIA report published in those years, which speaks of strengthening of decentralization and predicts that "stability in post Tito period" is not clear, reports Zagreb's "Jutarnji List".

- The aspirations of Croats for an independent Croatia are the main source of tension in the Yugoslav political system - the report says CIA.

Croat are nationalists, with the exception of the Dalmatians, which are closer to a unique country, it added.

There is a particularly indicative sentence that says: "After Tito's death, only the Army will remain", which says about the increasingly stronger power of the republics.

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And on Slovenia was seen as a republic, which was prone to its links with the West, but it is too small for the division. Croatian could do it, and they key argument is economic contribution to the former Federation which is disproportionate to its influence. It was claimed for Yugoslavia at the time that it could be defined as Great Serbia, reports Croatian papers.

SFRY maps appear from 1981, after the Tito's death because CIA was aware that Yugoslavia will fall apart back in 1970.

(Telegraf.co.uk)