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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.
Born in Noskater, Albania in 1912. • kd EL9A-1314 (Encl . 42) dtd Nov 51t C/C Dalt 23 UP 48 c°^ "6660(INr413C8/ C 7984) C-3 on-oialt(FIR'-//597) C: C - 6 dt int mid-Sept '51 • • NOMA, Enver Albania - v. Ir. • fairly reliable source reports that Subject (spelled Hodja) is • presently in Moscow. Rehash Shehu (qv) Minister of Interior end a strong party leader, is acting during his abeence. The Italian • Intelligence organisation considers this viait highly .possible • although it is not confirmed. (Legation Comment -- The course shares the long-atapding belief that Subject is definitely in • disfavor with Moscow, thile the popularity of Shehu with the Soviets is soaring. At present Shehu appears to be the likely successor to Subject. • okd InfoISATE-115P. SIC rpt containing info on armed forces persenalitiss,R-ios-r . hospitals, Soviet families, Greet guerrillas, roads, and economics in ArmyA Greece . Albania reports that subject is Prime Minister (Cry* Ministri); (SIC/LA/71) Minister of National Defence (Ministri Nbrojtjee Yombtere), and dt int Up to Nov 50 General of the Any (GjemeralArmate)during the period 1948 to , Dec. SO, Listed as Goiania General (Kolonel Gjeneral). mb MS USAF, Intel. • Summary, No, 325 18 Sep 51 Secretary General of Albanian Workers Party. Subject welcomed F3/St No. 218 delegates,frma all over the world, attending the 10th anniversary dtd 1 Nov 1951 festivities of the formation of the Albanian Workers Party. • 5Th to Europe okd 31 October 1951 At end of October 1951, Subject and Ail/. CARGANI(qv), vere present at the opening of A. new cotton processing factory at Fier. nO Split between Subj. and Mehmet SHEINJ(qv), which until recently had remained latent, has now beivar o sore pronounced. Rumors :1.detproad In Tirana that presence of both in Moscow in May "a due to their aolog to Soviet. Union bl . seek resolution or their personal , differeneas; if this the rea ,ona, however, trip unsuccessful, And tilt:. has deepened. Enmity stens partly from SHFlill's im- prisonment of various HMG' nnt ,srters and from SHEHU widening his personal power under pretext of his ttirdetry position; wi n %%Tread to Workers' Party itself, which ir gradually cplittinj intoA factio:m. ab Source's informant is confidential tiource,from Belgrade. About P05-7131 L 'J itiC-3 middle Aug 0 51 Masan DOSTI(W) sent cable to Sabi. saying that large dt 1a prior 19 00,151 quantities food, clothing and shoes had been collected and were ready to be sent to Albania for distribution, but that distribition must be made by International Red Cross or by a Comm. of the UN.
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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.