MIHAILOVIC, DRAZA• 359MI14.The War Office section during World War II responsible for
compiling the German order of battle, formerlyMI3(b).
MI15.The military intelligence designation in the War Office for the
section responsible for photographic intelligence.
MI19.The military intelligence designation of theCombined Services
Detailed Interrogation Centre.
MIDDLE EAST INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (MEIC).Headed by
Brigadier Walter Cawthorn, the MEIC coordinated subversion, cen-
sorship, propaganda, and military intelligence from September 1939
until July 1943. When Cawthorn was posted to India as director of
military intelligence in 1941 he was succeeded by his deputy, Colo-
nelSir Iltyd Clayton. The MEIC then became the Middle East Polit-
ical Intelligence Centre.
MIDDLE EAST MISSION. Special Operations Executive’s re-
gional headquarters inCairosupervised representatives in Beirut,
Tehran, Jerusalem, Istanbul, and Baghdad and ran operations into
Crete, Cyprus, North Africa, and the Near and Middle East, having
absorbed the local assets of two earlier clandestine organizations,
Section DandG(R). The first heads of mission were Arthur Good-
will of Section D (May–September 1940) and Sir George Pollock
(September 1940–August 1941). Pollock’s replacement, Brigadier
Taverner, was captured after his seaplane was shot down in the Bay
of Biscay, so Terence Maxwell was appointed instead (August 1941–
August 1942). He was followed by Lord Glenconner (September
1942–October 1943); W. A. Stawell (1943–45); and Henry Benson
(1945–46).
MIHAILOVIC, DRAZA.A rival to Tito, General Draza Mihailovic
and his Cetniks provided the first organized resistance to the Axis
occupation ofYugoslavia, and the controversial decision bySpecial
Operations Executive(SOE) to abandon them in favor of Tito’s Par-
tisans led to almost total Communist domination of the anti-Axis
guerrilla forces. The very last British presence in Yugoslavia, Briga-
dier Armstrong’s mission, was finally extracted in May 1944 by 267