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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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IR- 5615.172 25 Aug. 1954 SGA 2779 dtd 17 Gal.15/1 MOXRA, Enver' Albania - 24 :-Aw Weal Developments • I. RDAs and Shebn in South. Albanian press and • radii reports indicate tttlIztt_lirt Tirana soon after he rewidned as Premier on July 20 and went to Kor9e, in southern Albania, • '10bere he taught before the war and "hare his Cammutist activities had -their inception in the late 1930 1 s. Thia was probably the reason he , not attend the reception at the Polish thabassy in Tirana on July 22.1 rn the first days of August he begin appearing at agricultural collectives . in the Dile area, and em August %accompanied by Premier Menet Shshu and other Commect Party officials, he visited the agricultural collective at Rembeo village. Shehu apparently went south in order to appear in public with Bombe and thus spike widespread rumors originating in the country and • from abroad that the trio men were at loggerheads. An Albanian • intellectual who fled to Greene late in July reported that Rotate risitiatto,- " , pnawiniguir hielwide rspareuesions in Albania and that Beta had beat actually forced to.gtre uP the post as had of ;..the sowertnect. caewneek The replaced ex-fres. of Government Subject, retains Only /est of General Seerctaiy Of Albanian G.P. The re/icon for a/m reilecement has not been known in Albania. It was rumoured only that Subject had inwediate need or rest because for many years he held position of }r1-Minister, and was in charre of other Ministries as tell, so that he was excessively timid or bork load. keople do not believe in aim rumours, and replamment lowered morale or people, beei..un:: nes iri-Ministee is erlxiinal, ' vioistn, and cruel character, contrast/tic. to Subj./et wbo was fluch bjf ROMA, accompanied by Eyed ICAPO and Gogo =SRI, members of the IBIS -.Politburo. visited the agrioulttwal fair in &kudos. 10/11/54 bk SORRA among prominent officials invited by the Soviet Governmsnt and P1/S-321 the CPS9 Central Committee for a Mail; visit to the USSR. The 4/11/52 Albanian Government and Mortars Party delegation was led by S. cw
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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.