US watched this developments → increasing anxiety.
US spies → reported → to Truman → that Stalin was using Cominform to help communists → win power in Malaya + Indonesia + Burma + Philippines + Korea
To Truman and US Spies → this suggested conspiracy.
- feared that communist countries → acting together to spread communism → and would overrun Asia.
- Truman and Acheson → convinced → Stalin → was orchestrating process of communist expansion worldwide.
- They were determined to stop him