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SOVIET UNION
Politburo Maneuvers Continuing political maneuvers on the
YUGOSLAVIA
highest level of the Soviet Government are revealed by recenl indications that Nlcolai VoEnesensky, recently deposed chairman of the State Planning Commission, has airparently also been ousted from his PolitburoVoznesensky's failure to be appointed, as were tho other Politburo members, an honorary delegate to several recont conferences, points to his probable dismissal from the top government body, the only such removal in the last decade. Voxncsensky's relationship to the late Andrei Zhdanov strongly suggests that these latest developmentseflection of the rise of Malenkov following Zhdanov's death.
Guerrilla Moves Recent Yugoslav denunciations of sub-
7 versivc efforts by Com inform agents along the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border may indicate that guerrilla forays against Tito have already begun. The Yugoslavclaims to have prevented Com inform Yugoslavs in Bulgaria from establishing contact with units In Yugoslavia. At the same time, Tito's Government has suspended an agreement with Bulgaria which permitted militiamen of either cation to escort trains across the common frontier. Although Tito appears to be in control cf the situation, the Comlnforra will probably increase its efforts to harass the Yugoslavs through subversive and guerrilla action.
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BULGARIA
Communist Deviation The arrest of Traicho Kostov, vice premier and second most important Communist leader in Bulgaria, along with several other leaders in the Government and Party, indicates that thehas not yet been able to obtain the complete loyalty of the Satellite Communists. These arrests underscore theof the Kremlin's problem and the strength of Tito-like nationalism; they occurredatellite often used by the Kremlin as an example for the other Satellites. Moreover, Kostov has generally been regarded as absolutely loyal to Moscow. The official communique describing his expulsion charged thatacked sincerity in his dealings with Soviet representatives (he apparently resisted economicof Bulgaria by theisregarded Party and Governmentromoted distrust and suspicion within the Bulgarian Communist Party;pposed the Bulgarian Politburo. Apparently Rostov's cardinal sin was his effort as chairman of the Committee for Economic and Financial Questions to oppose Soviet exploitation of tbe Bulgarian economy. Although it is not known to what extent Kostov and those arrested with him had succeeded in forming an antt-Cominform organization, the recent denunciation by Interior Minister Yugov of the tendency of nationalist devia-tionists to form sects suggests that atoose kind of grouping was developing.
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