Wi the STASI murders Tito.

As we all know tito was a pain in the back of the Soviet bloc for bscketabing them and keeping millions of people outside their area of influence, while keeping a independent foreign policy.

There is also the common knowledge that Stalin tried to murder him many times until he finally gave up, with some dispute of how these assassinations were planned.

LetsL say that Kruschev delegated to the STASI the mission to kill Tito, and with the impeccable stasi efficiency they get rid of him and escape making it look like a accident. What happens next?
 

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“Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to M̶o̶s̶c̶o̶w̶ East Berlin, and I won't have to send a second.”

— Josip Broz Tito
 
“Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to M̶o̶s̶c̶o̶w̶ East Berlin, and I won't have to send a second.”

— Josip Broz Tito

Yeah, I fail to see how the Stasi would be more effective at this than the MGB.
 
LetsL say that Kruschev delegated to the STASI the mission to kill Tito, and with the impeccable stasi efficiency they get rid of him and escape making it look like a accident. What happens next?

Why is Khrushchev going to do this? He's the one behind the 1955 Soviet-Yugoslav reconciliation. And in 1956 in the Secret Speech he specifically rebuked Stalin for overestimating the easiness of eliminating Tito. ("I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito." https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.asp)

Granted, the relations deteriorated in 1958 over the Yugoslav Communists' "revisionist" program--but this break, which lasted until 1962, was not nearly as severe as that of Stalin's time. This time, for example, the break only concerned the Communist parties of the two nations, while state-to-state relations, though chilly, still existed. And by this time it was clear that Tito had long since eliminated any elements within the League of Yugoslav Communists who might subordinate the country to the USSR, so an attempted assassination would not only be risky but even if successful would not gain any political objective.

And why use Stasi, anyway? The KGB had far more experience in dealing with Yugoslavs and cultivating anti-Tito elements than any of the "satellite" intelligence agencies. Of course by the late 1950's they realized that this cultivation hadn't done them much good, thanks to the effectiveness of Rankovic's security police.
 
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