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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.
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F MINA, thver • Albania - 18 t • I Attended the reception given by loan TOTOLANI (qv), Rumanian diplomatic• representative in Tirana, in honor of the fifth anniversary of the - • Rumanian Republic. r• I at e I RBIS #1-dtd 2 Jen53 Tfrana, Home,. 31 Dec 1952 PSIS t38 dtd 26 Feb 1953 Tirana, Home 22 Feb 1953 snaann DT /UFO July 1952 h #45 citzi 9 Mar 1953 6nrideren eah, 11497e3 PARIS APP RADIO- TMETYPC IN PUNCH TO NIS ANTRICAS. 9 Feb 1953 FEIS,j46 dt4 10 Larch 19;•:. Tann:, Hors, 9 : rch FBIS ;44 dtd 10 larch .1953 Tirana, No:os 9 March 1953 PHIS //L.7 dtd.11..L'arch.1953. 'Tirana, Horre 11 Larch 1953 Received at the brigade's palace in Tirana, a group of about 203 Pioneers FBIS #1 with Mehmet sHaru, /lea ,RAFO, Gogo NUSHI; Spiro NOLDCA, Pilo FLRIST21, dtd 2 Jan 1953 I and Famish EYFTIU (qqv). trana, Home - I • 31 Dee 1952 af Subject attended a meeting in the People's Theater in Tirana on the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the formation of the Soviet Army, on 22 Feb 1953. Directs the Foreign Affairs, People's Defense Section, of t/.3 Prime Minister's office.. Jdk Secretary General of the Albanian Workers Party and Chief of the • Council of Ministers. SubJedt with member of the Central Cornoittee, the Government, and the People's Presidium, paid a condolence visit on the occasion of STALIN'S death,to the Soviet Legation, on. 6 March.• Jdk The fact that Subject Pruader, who is also Secretary General of the Albanian Communist Party was the only one among the six leaders of the Communist Parties in the People's Democracies not to go to Moscow for Stalin's funeral has been holding the attention of Balkan Affairs specialists in Paris. They interpret this absence as nn indication of 41:3 tension prevailing in Albania on the day following STALIN'S death. According to them, this interpretation is strengthened by the fact that Interior Linister Cehmet SIP31U (qv) did not figure in Albania's delegation, which vas headed by Vice frernier and Politburo mernbur Spiro NOLIIA (qv). • jolt • ;read in oath of ItIv p•:oplu to r,TALIN ot ur.i.ott of fuourtd 'tt it.lrer y !!:.•rmi i•Are ( • v) to 60,000 perzions .:tired •.ucretary GencraLiCohf Coo Albanian ..orkera Party ors! (#1,1ei • of the 2.0U:Ici.). of :Ulster!. lubJect, Omer 1:3311,181 (C y ), Fr1/4). ( t•cruty Pi• uidors Of the Per:Tic's AaAe.nbly, visited tho Lreviel legation in Tirana on ae occasion of STALIN'S funeral, on 9 Lerch 1953. 3ubJect,. Dr. Omer IIISHANI, and menbere of the Politburo, the Central Committee of the Party,. of the-Government,- and.of. the.People's.. Presidium, signed an Oath to SPALIN addressed to the Soviet Union, on 10 gareh 1953 Signing of the oath began in Albania on 9 Larch. 3clk
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