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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, dated October 1995, contains the proceedings of a conference on ethnic conflict held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored it. Academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials presented papers on ethnic and territorial conflict in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. They also discussed what these conflicts mean for US policy. The document contains no UFO material.
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C00123268 its relations with Turkey. Thus, in the event of a widen- By continuing to legitimize Serbian aggression, we ing war, we may find Serbia and Greece isolated and are once again letting the people of Eastern Europe Turkey, Bulgaria, and Albania backed by Russia, know that we do not support democratic governments Croatia, Hungary, and many Middle Eastern States. It or independent nation-states in that region. We should is doubtful that we could do anything under those cir- therefore not be surprised that a greater and far more cumstances in terms of any involvement, serious war may be looming on the horizon. The alienation of the Turks and of Turkey is a far more Although one can paint other scenarios, one thing is serious issue in the realm of geopolitical reality than clear-the West made a grave error in allowing and the support of Serbian delusions of grandeur. We risk promoting Serbian aggression. Some say it is too late not only a great Balkan war but also one that may to do anything. That is an absurd position. In 1940 one result in Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey changing their could say that Germany had won the war and that it national borders. Inaction in Bosnia has also resulted was too late to do anything to free Poland or Czecho- in a massive rise of anti-Western and anti-American slovakia. The Russians proved otherwise. Serbia is not sentiment throughout the Middle East and other Mus- a great power and need not be feared. If after three lim areas. The United States should rethink its posi- years of vast military superiority the Serbs still have tion on Serbia. not won, they would be easy to push back. The main- tenance of the embargo against the Bosnian Muslims should be lifted and airpower should be used to liber- ate Bosnia. It is certainly not too late to do that. 36
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.