54 PRIESTS LISTED AS SLAIN IN ALBANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01416R000100080109-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 109
• Publication Date: March 8, 1953
• Content Type: NSPR

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Catholic Agency Report D ath
of Archbishop b~- 'or#~re'
-19 Others Ate in -Jail wit
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but Fhes d C4VQi}ii~, tou
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iori,9f;tlte clergy aricl the G itholic.
?4 PRIESTS; LISTED
AS SLAIN I h #IA
urcllest' a was ,reported to Piave,
Id.. 'TA lar'beor"e'the whole
our:-or srax rith.grest' ctness
ROME, March 7-Of ty~:
ecclesiastics tvho composed
Albanian RQman. ` Catholic, tte
lar clergy# the advent q., e
Communist. regime .In 1tiloveln er,
1944, fifty-four are knpwiti;fe liaye
,been killed end nineteen e
prison, according to the`';Cathoc
Fides News Agency, which- oeed
a "well-informed' person who "le`t
Albania recently",,
.Among those 'listed as dG'
Msgr. Nicholas Vincent Y'r nuahi,
Archbishop of Durazao', 8s
ansested 3n 1947 d r~ie ~er,
,=torture and indign(tie ; e;agetioy
'said. His death mui~ta occ~irlr0
recently, since the official Catholic
Yearbook ;for .1952.lists''bim `aa, tl e
only Albanian bishop still all Ve
Several of the ecclesiaatioa kill's
were tortured, the Catholic etgenCy
said. Speaking of tortures,' it de
Glared, # We mention onlyy' some:
breaking of bones,- cutting info
muscles' ;and f tabbfng' ;i It .Ito
wounds, :Jmmersing `~ the etelf r
scalding water, iausing the *Ic
to- stand: immerged to big'1ecit In
filth of a'septic tank, p licption
of hot irons to various pars of tl'e
body, electric shock: ,We prept
to mention mome of the tortures.'
The report added that"' 8threvo-
lution devours some of 'Its own in
Albania, !too:' ,In this: Conn ction
it mentioned the case `of eut.
Pierin Kcira, ` former member
the security police in Scutaxi,,who
was condemned to fifteen years:
;imprisonment After his .'sentence
;be rose in court and accueed
Communists `of obli in him'to` . n-
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rown .nto e ye''~",#tch into
Bich elf, ad, thrown, the'
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