-14- subject on which he "exhibited such an attitude. He said that with Tito's permission, he would give me a description of their set-up, but I felt for a number of reasons that the time was not advantageous to press for more information, and decided to wait until some future date. I believe that we can obtain at least some information on this subject from the Partisans any time we want to insist on it. The General did say that they had a com- plete military intelligence organization; that they were well satisfied with it, and its workings; and that if I wished to locate American intelligence officers at the different army corps headquarters, it would be possible for those officers to work with the Partisan chief intelligence officer. Major Alston, the British G-2 on Brigadier MacLean's mis- sion, told me that there had been rumors that, the entire Parti- san intelligence organization had been disbanded at about the time of the establishing of the Anglo-American mission to Tito's headquarters; and that so far as he could discover, it had prob- ably taken place owing to the Partisans' finding that the organ- ization had been extensively penetrated. Since that time they have re-established their new set-up. If the penetration story is true, it would certainly help to explain Iovanovic's reluc- tance in giving any details of how they now operate. Also, he himself has been among the more suspicious Partisan officers in his dealings with the British and the Americans. The BBC some months ago fell somewhat short of winning Iovanovic's friendship, |