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This Central Intelligence Agency file, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, gathers biographical index cards on Albanian Communist leader Enver Hoxha. The entries cover the years 1943 to 1954. They record his roles as Prime Minister, Commander in Chief and party Secretary-General, his trips to Moscow and his relations with Tito and Yugoslavia. They also note rumored rifts with Mehmet Shehu and Tuk Jakova, the 1951 Tirana bombing, and his giving up the premiership in July 1954. The file contains no UFO material.
SO-61211* Tm-10206 C 1 .8818) to of Info: /9 Feb. 51 *3 IN 30058 L.. a 6655) * 8080518 Info:31/3/51 SOMA, Caen . 7"S 17.1e esit,lfl5) Tiara 7 are850 Smhiect,. Charna o g t in Carell o g .,:inisters, attended P celebration meeting on the oe .nr.Sinr. af the 33rd Rzniverescr 7 of the ;n eat Cetoba Socialist Realution organized '21. the Central Committee of the Arosnian Wofn ere . PertY, in the martini, ti.catro Mama. uf /234Subject attended a celebration meeting on the occasion of the -IBIS •sixth anniversary of the Liberation, organized by leaders of the / Dec 1950 Democratic Front of A/bertin and the Tirana front. Chairman of the Council Tirana 29 Nov mf of Ministers of the : People's Republic of Aibinia. of the Albanian Armed Forces, Prime Minister, Minister of National General of the Army, Secretary General of the Party, Supreme Commamier on ORE Info 1 Defense,'Mirdster of Foreign Affairs, and President of OF. Deputy Paper EER-78 for Tirana '..C.Citict of the new People's Assembly, whose first session dtd 3 July 50 opened on 28 June 50. Pa The discharge of Spiro FANO and Rita MARIO ( Tin) Ma is cited by source as a further indication of EOM's preoccupation with the dis- loyalty of his official entourage. . clo Reports of 22 March 1951, b e4lev4d.reliable , state that Subject and vice-premier Thk JAKOVA(qv) are at odds and that JAKOVA was imprisoned on or about 12 March 1951. ab Rumors of a rift between subject and Mehmet Shehu based aaalleged rivalry for power, have been current-RISI•ce elections of the summer of 1950. It ie also being said that many Army officers and high State officials have taken the side of Shehu*. *Washington Comment: Source has not been able to secure any definite evidence confirming or denying this report. Such speculation hen been going on for some time past in Albanian circles outside the country, while similar rumors have also previously been reported by contacts in Albania. See SO l s 28835b, 30069, 33424, 37753 and 42920. sib SO-61209(IN-31935, 0•704 • Tv-3213.6/c 3 8a09); C .1 C-3 50-59696'- -TN C .2-8483) rata of Info: March /95/ B-3 The bombing incident in Tirana occurred on 19 Feb. 51 during a gathering of subject and his Soviet advisers; the bomb consisted of a tin of "compressed gasoline" (sic). Of 1,000 persons • arrested, including members of the police end army, 50 were shot immediate/y, and their families interned. There is said to have been some difference of opinion between subject and Mehmet Shehu (qv) regarding the type of punishment to be inflicted; Subject reportedly opposed the death penalty. mb
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 24 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.