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...four hours the departure was kept secret, then a brief bulletin issued by the Tanjug agency broke the news to a startled Yugoslavia and a wondering world. Eight days earlier Khrushchev had flown just as suddenly into Belgrade, under the thin pretense of taking a vacation (TIME, Oct. 1), and had remained in close conclave with Tito. The flight to Yalta provoked wide and wild speculation in the world's capitals. Western diplomats, normally an "I told you so" lot, frankly confessed bafflement. None offered a better guess as to its cause than that of one Belgrader: "Something serious...
Last week, Tanjug, official Yugoslav press agency, denounced the interview as "completely imaginary." Since U.S. News & World Report "has no editors or correspondents in Yugoslavia," said the agency, "an interview could not have been given them...
...Yugoslav official whom he had presumed was empowered to talk for Tito's government. Said Flieger: "There is no doubt in my mind that the story as we printed it is the authentic official attitude." But he refused to name either the talkative official or the courier. Tanjug's denial, Flieger said, should be filed under the "inscrutable Communists...