YUGOSLAVIA

This page provides a guide to the digitized National Security Country Files on Yugoslavia housed in Texas Scholar Works. The originals are located in the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.

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This collection of documents provides a window into US relations with Yugoslavia, the only socialist state in Eastern Europe independent of Moscow from 1948 to the end of the Cold War period. The US had ties with Yugoslavia throughout the period, but there were also periods of tension. The Yugoslav national security files reveal US efforts to overcome tensions and establish more robust trade relations in the 1960s. The collection provides insights into Yugoslavia’s leading role in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), founded in 1955, which sought a diplomatic alternative to the Cold War's two-camp global system. As the LBJ files document, NAM was critical of colonial powers and condemned the US role in Vietnam, which created issues for bilateral US-Yugoslav relations. Documents also provide intelligence on Yugoslav domestic developments, including efforts at political liberalization.​

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