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"Yet whatever the tensions in Korea, Washington's attention was not concentrated on that area. If Central Intelligence indicated the possibility of an aggression in Korea, it also indicated an equal possibility at a number of other points in the world. As a matter of fact, when Connors's telephone call reached his superior, Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the Assistant Secretary was at the house of the columnist Joseph Alsop, where the conversation centered on the threat to Yugoslavia resulting from the build-up of the Romanian and Bulgarian armies." https://archive.org/stream/crucialdecadeame006464mbp#page/n165/mode/2up
I know it's very unlikely, but suppose the Soviet Union (through satellite troops acting at the "request of the healthy elements in the Yugoslav Communist Party") did invade Yugoslavia in 1949-50? Stalin might reason "the imperialists are not going to start a third world war over it, and it will teach all the potentially disloyal elements in the Peoples' Democracies a lesson once and for all."