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Posted on 08/21/2013 4:32:35 PM PDT by Ravnagora
Josip Broz Tito (Žika Vučić for Tanjug, file)
BELGRADE -- Josip Broz Tito was "not of Yugoslav origin," a recently declassified document published on the CIA website has asserted.
The U.S. intelligence agency said that a phonetic analysis of his speech suggested this conclusion.
Broz - who came to power in the post-WW2, single-party communist Yugoslavia, and remained president until his death in 1980 - was officially of mixed Croat-Slovenian heritage.
But the paper says that the manner in which he spoke "Serbo-Croatian" - allegedly his mother tongue, but spoken with a foreign accent - meant that his true native language, "or at least one closer to him than Serbo-Croatian," was either Russian or Polish.
The authors of the lengthy analysis conclude that it would be "logical to assume" that the controversial leader was either Russian or Polish, but stress that his true identity can only be hypothesized - but that it "certainly was not Yugoslav."
They went on to assert that his non-Yugoslav origins were the reason for his "impartiality and success in solving the various problems and conflicts of ethnic groups in Yugoslavia."
The speech that was analyzed dates back to 1977, Belgrade-based Politika and Mondo media outlets are quoting the document on Monday, adding that "any further investigation of Tito's true identity would only serve academic purposes."
Aleksandra's Note:
To read the 4 page CIA document from the NSA website, please go to the link below:
http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/is_yugoslav.pdf
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In that picutre, he reminds me of an actor — Jack, is that you?
Oh my goodness! You are so right! Although I much prefer Jack Nicholson over Tito for sure!
Well, I’m glad they finally cleared that up for me.
I can think of one other ‘leader’ who isn’t who or what he says he is. “57 States” is a clue.
My Slavic friend is turning over in his grave today.
You got me Burke. < /Jack >
By looks I would vote Polish.
I thought he was Montenegrin.
According to his Wiki bio his mother was Slovenian and he spent several years living in Slovenia. While in the Austrian Army he was captured by the Russians and spent a few years there during which he became a communist. That would explain a faint accent, I should think. The CIA couldn’t figure this out?
Tito... He’s obviously a member of the Jackson Family from Gary, Indiana.
Jackson Five
Don’t be so dismissive . . . the question would keep me up at nights.
No that was Nero Wolfe.
Imagine! A country that got taken over by a dictatorially-inclined alien communist having Zero regard or respect for the nation’s (former) constitution, religious faiths, culture, or institutions!
Thank Heaven nothing like that could ever happen in the good old USA!
“As the old joke went, Yugoslavia had eight distinct peoples in six republics, with five languages, three religions (Orthodox, Catholic, and Muslim), and two alphabets (Roman and Cyrillic), but only one Yugoslav — Tito.” Apparently, there were really no Yugoslavs.
And when they ran this on 0bama they concluded he was from Indonesia with a slight Kenyan accent, masked by feigned ghetto slang.
How many billions did that worthless piece of information cost us.... who cares?
Bump!!!
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