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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.
•FBID Daily 2oport No. 243-1949 19 Dec. 1919 (APP. French Press Service, 17 Dec. 1949) "Be/grade -- It is learned from c good source that :river 20/241, Albanian ?major, returned . on December 15 to Tirana' after a stay of about one month in Moscow. - According to well informed circles, the Albanian Premier studied with the Russian leaders the situa- tion resulting from the liquidation of the civil mar in Greece, which now....Albania from the other satellites, as well as the consequences of Yugoslavia's denunciatiow . on November 12 of this friendship treaty betwmen the two countries. imsl1y, according to certain. persons, it is -feasible that :le. UUKLA,who was accompanied in his trip by the Soviet Minister to Tirana, asked for increased aid from Russia." fc The Am. Zahessy, Moscow, has not beea able to confirm the rumored Control-12119 Uosoow visit of NO.YEA. The Soviet press reported that'Urs. Am. Bahasa:, Moscow BatMA(qv) represented Albania at a session of the 7fiDi council 1 2974, dated 50 Nov. 49 just held in Ummow. It is also possible that, though no • mention of it has been 'made, EWA may have attended the C ominfonn meeting in Hungary. • The French Ambassador (wIto together with the Italian Ambassador last night attended a dinner; 'given by the new Albanian-miste r in Iiciscow) says he is sure hurts has not been in• id.— • • new mili tar,: ti Un (..Sar:I.s.1 of ilia isrmy) .1Asy b.; ”rcparscor:., ■:o sendinu ;:w 1, Ar..:y 1:0 .0 n“.iothinc, a la ;:eLC64OV:31;Y in a :.:,:ei.sbiously increasLac eOtit ml ovsiv LI:e count:7 s.eldon 'el.': or the is :Laid, exposed satellite. The d.:',11C;1 Ldni;7, ■:iij very General Hoehn granted a farewell audience to Hungarian Minietor on 18 Deo. 49. FBIB 24.; ' 19 Dec. 49 . die The Frenoh Embassy reports the return of MUSA to Tirana on Control-6333 18 Deo. The continuous absence of !NAHA since 16 Nov. is Am. Embasay, Be/greue partly confirmed by the fact that BOOCHA signed no ministerial No. 1301 decrees in the 'interim period. .20 Deo. 1949 to Subject returned to Tirana from MOSCOW with two special TS IN-12898 advisors for military and political affairs. No political VIEN-3560 changes are evident but a military reorganisation is underway. 3 Jeri. 1950 to (qv) Shygeri'CUC/T'a/innt, who is resident in Albania, is- the- P 1I1-6472 - . of Um Subject. ab dt int Hero!, 19W
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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.