[GunRunner]

It was deliberate malevolence on the part of Soviet agents within the State Department. Pick up a copy of "Blacklisted By History." The relevant chapter is 7 (I had to look that part up).

But I thought the Russians were on the side of the Serbs this time. Why would Soviet agents want to hurt the Serbs?

Even pre-communist Russia supported the Serbian nationalists in WWI, I believe.

[nina0113]

The short version, because my copy of the book is at home:

During the war, the Soviet moles at State had us backing, both financially and with materiel, the Communist partisans in Yugoslavia rather than the anti-Communist ones, who we cut off at the pockets. Both sets of partisans were Serbs.