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when he turned on his radio receiver one night, and heard himself
 
mentioned by name  as a traitor and collaborationist. In addition,
 
he has questioned from time to time whether any of the vital Par-
 
tisan information released to British and Americans would find
 
its way back to the Royal Jugoslav Government and Mihailovic,
 
since we have been known to have connections with them. He told
 
me that the difficulty of getting couriers and consequently in-
 
formation, documents, or materiel through the German lines and
 
in and out of the German-held cities, was considerable. His
 
statement was corroborated by one or two other staff officers
 
but is at variance with Colonel Vladko Velebit's statement that
 
such traffic could be and was carried on regularly and with ease.
 
Whatever the personnel and organization of the Partisan intelli-
 
gence set-up may be, the external evidence in terms of results
 
certainly suggests at the very best a lop-sided group which may
 
be good for certain kinds of individmal and personal espionage,
 
but does not seem to produce much in the way or organized battle
 
order or enemy intelligence. Once or twice they have turned up
 
with an interesting German prisoner from the Abwehr or some sim-
 
ilar group, but all in all the results, as known and examined by
 
us, have been less than meager.
 
       I talked with the General about the degree to which his or-
 
ganization had at varions times up to the  present been perpetrated
 
by the enemy. He said that there had never been much penetration,
 
that there was less now than ever, that the penetration had always