3 minutes agoFBI believed there was another Tito
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)On April 20, 1955, Marian John Markel entered the FBI office in LoS He told a shocking story. The man who was then represented as Josip Broz Tito was not really Tito. He was a Russian agent who got Tito's identity after real Josip Broz disappeared in Russia more [...]
Marian Marcul was born in Livno in 1909. He moved to the United States in 1936 and became a citizen after serving for two years in the American Army.
Notes of the meeting of FBI and Markel agents reportedly visited Yugoslavia in 1953 and met with Tito twice. The first meeting lasted about an hour, and he noticed that Tito had five fingers in each hand. Markl claims that the real Tito lost his middle finger and his right finger. He added that Tito, with whom he had talked in 1953, was educated and played the piano. On the other hand, true Tito was uneducated, and according to Markl's knowledge, he could not play the piano.
Among other things, Markel claims Josip Broz was about 18 inches [180 cm] long, while the root Tito was only 160cm. Markl also said the man who was introduced as Tito in the 1950s spoke with a soft Russian accent, while true Tito spoke with determination and severity. Markel claims that the real Tito was sick and had tuberculosis and disappeared in Russia in 1937.
After accepting a meeting with Tito in 1953, Marian visited a married sister in Zagreb. They were reluctant to talk about whether Tito was the real one, or not. The sister told Markl that she and her husband lived with the conviction that Tito on 15th Street was a common fraud. Markl added that his father, Ivan Markal, had a similar opinion. Ivan Markel and Josip Broz had worked in the same town, and Ivan was convinced Tito in Belgrade was not the same as fellow Tito 50 secretary of the Communist Party in Yugoslavia.
Markil himself said he spent several years in Russia and that he had seen many Russian agents on the streets of Yugoslavia. In 1930, he went to Russia and thought that society was well organized but was arrested for failing to meet his work quotas. He told American agents that he had fled Russia three years later through Siberia.
“Marku argues that Yugoslav authorities are becoming at odds with the USSR to receive US assistance and that there is actually no real dispute between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union”, the FBI document said.
