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DIRECTOR'S LOG
.TEOF DATE 8:30 AM,211 Sept.- 8:30 AM,25 Sept.
)CUMENT. RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT ACTION
OPC
A translation of a secret-ink letter from a CIA-controlled
agent team in Albania has been received. Dated 5 August,
the letter acknowledges a July supply drop, the first of
three successful drops to this team and reports that the
team is .intact and active. The writer mentioned wide-spread
anti-Communist feeling in Northern Albania. He referred
specifically to one organization known as "For the Freedom
of Albania and Overthrow of Comaunism"; and said to number
both civilians and soldiers among its members. If this team
is as firmly established as the letter seems to indicate,
there is now a funnel in Northern Albania through which
supplies and additional agents can be put in.
Indications are that members of the Mlditary Junta of the
National Committee for a Free Albania cooperating with
CIA in operations against Albania havemade politically
inspired agent selections, have been lax securitywise, and
do not enjoy the confidence of at least one Albanian agent
team. Efforts will be made in future operations involving
the Junta either to isolate its members while-operations
are under way or to prevent its members from learning
operational details.
On 13 Sept. the National Committee for a Free Albania in
New York transmitted a cable to Albanian Premier Enver
Hoxha offering medicines and food stdffs to the Albanian
people, provided distribution could be supervised by an
impartial group. No reply has been received. Therefore,
the message will be released to the press and radio within
the next 2 days by the public relations' section of National
Committee for a Free Europe. Hoxhalis tacit refusal to
coopergte provides the basis for the next leaflets which
- CIA plans to disseminate to the Albanian people in the name
of the National Committee for a Free Albania.
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