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From: NEW YORK
To: MOSCOW
No: 1437
To the 8th Section [OTDEL].
Reissue (T21)
10 Oct. 44
HARE [ZAYATs][i] [D% communicates][1 group unrecovered]
the BANK[ii] a telegram from BARI of [D% 25] September, in which
is discussed the introduction by TITO of strict regulations
[about][b] the movements and activity of the military missions
of the COUNTRY [STRANA][iii] and the ISLAND [OSTROV][iv].
In the telegram it is communicated that the ISLAND has replied
by the termination of supplies to the partisans and the
evacuation of the wounded. The probable cause of the introduction
of strict measures [C% this year he considers to be the intention]
of TITO to conceal from the missions the existing control over
the country that he exercises.
RADIO ANNOUNCER [DIKTOR][v] has appointed KOCH [KOKh][vi]
chief of the Japanese section [OTDELENIE] of the secret department
[OTDEL] of the COMPETITION [KONKURENTsIYa][vii].
KOCH advises that his section had men in CHINA working
[with][b] a little group of Japanese FELLOWCOUNTRYMEN [ZEMLYaKI][viii]
in FELLOWCOUNTRYMAN [ZEMLYaKIChESKIJ] territory on the problem
of despatching people to JAPAN. The plan consists in the use of
Korean FELLOWCOUNTRYMEN and of the situation that JAPAN is
Importing Korean manpower. Details are being ascertained.
According to a communication of KOCH the IZBA is very much
concerned about the fate of its people in territories occupied
by the Red Army particularly in Germany where the concentration
of the IZBA's people is higher than [in] [b] other countries.
The IZBA fears that its people will be [C% shot] and [5 groups
Unrecovered] in [2 groups unrecovered] requirement of regulating
the question with the Russians.
[3 groups unrecoverable]
No.817
T.N. [b] Added by translator
Comments: [i] Maurice HALPERIN. IZBA - OSS
[ii] BANK - State Department
[iii] STRANA - U.S.A.
[iv] OSTROV - Great Britain
[v] DIKTOR - William S. DONOVAN
[vi] KOKh - Duncan LEE
[vii] COMPETITION - non-Soviet Intelligence Organization.
[viii] FELLOWCOUNTRYMEN - Communists.
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