During the early years of the Cold War, Marshal Josip Broz Tito was an unlikely ally for Harry Truman and the U.S.-led anti-Communist West. Tito came to power in Yugoslavia as a Communist, of course, and acted like it: collective farms, paranoid show trials, and other features of Communist dictatorships came to Yugoslavia after World War II. But Tito wanted to be more than a mere puppet of Moscow, and Truman exploited the crack in the Soviet sphere. The U.S. furnished Tito with weapons and aid