[Graham Boak]

Quite the reverse, Franek. Maclean's experience had also included reporting on Stalin's show trials in the thrities, so he had no illusions about the Communists. It was as a result of Fitzroy Maclean's investigations that British aid was switched from Mihailovitch's Chetniks to Tito. The Chetniks had come to an agreement with the occupiers and were using the aid to eliminate competition.

It is a bit difficult to argue that Tito was not fighting the Germans, for they were quite definitely fighting him. Maclean's mission was present in the evacuation, under fire, of Tito's base. It was Tito's partisans that "assisted" the removal of German forces from Yugoslavia, not something carried out without a certain amount of physical persuasion?

Perhaps your historian had his own axe to grind?