- 15 - 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 |