SOVIET TECHNICIANS TAKE OVER ALBANIAN CHROME MINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040569-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 569
• Publication Date: February 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGFNCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOR?_IGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
Economic - Chromium
Political - Soviet control
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Skoplje
DATE
PUBLISHED 18 Sep 1951
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INFORMATION 1951
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REPORT NO.
Skoplje, 18 September -- According to reports from Albania, Soviet tech-
nicians are taking over complete control of the chrome mine in Bulqize, where
600 Albanians work. The mine director, Xhavid Nasiti, is an Albanian known
for his cruelty to the workers, but the actual management of. the mine is in the
hands of two Russians, Nikola Pavlov and his assistant Ivan Nikolayev, aided by
eight other Soviet technicians.
Ore from this mine is not retained for Albania but is shipped through
Durres to other Cominform countries.
The B-hour workday is observed only on paper. Reasons are constantly in-
vented for overtime work, workers being forced to work in honor of Enver Aoxha
or Stalin, or on state holidays. Working conditions are very poor. Pay and
food are bad. Because of the workers' inimical attitude toward the government,
the management is forced to hold regular political meetings, at which it at-
tempts to divert the miners' attention from their poor living conditions by
denouncing Yugoslavia.
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