RECENT GUERRILLA ACTIVITIES IN ALBANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090523-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 523
• Publication Date: December 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Albania DATE OF
INFORMATION 1952
SUBJECT Military - Guerrilla activitie,,
HOW DATE DIST. W92
PUBLISHED Daily nevapa r CENTRAL I_ ELLI6ENCE A6ENC1
WHERE CLASSIFICATION
PUBLISHED Izmir Cancelled NO. OF PAGES 1
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DATE 8, !! ^O.UTY OF
PUBLISHED 29 Sep, 1 Oct 1952 ~;;e yyti~
LANGUAGE Turkish Ollie? SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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An Ankara News Agency dispatch dated 28 September from Ioannina, Greece,
reported that a 1,200-man guerrilla force led by Akif Dedo, leader of the Al-
banian nationalist guerrillas, fought a 2-day battle, on 26 - 27 September,
with an Albanian militia regiment in the mountainous area south of Tepelene.
The guerrillas, having long expected an attack and being well entrenched, eas-
ily threw back the militia and eventually routed the regiment by a counter-
attack. The battle cost the guerrillas 70 dead and more than 100 wounded;
while the militia suffered 200 deri and a number of prisoners, including the
regiment's political commissar, a Russian, who was shot immediately after be-
ing captured.(1)
According to another Ankara News Agency dispatch from Ioannina, dated
30 September, regular guerrilla units clashed with government forces in north-
ern Albania 3 days tiefore the fight at Tepelene. In spite of great pressure,
the government troops, estimated at about a division, were unable to dislodge
the guerrillas from their positions.
The dispatch added that an air of revolt is present throughout Albania
and that, in spite of threats and violence, the mountain peasants are continu-
ing to aid the guerrillas. As an example it cited the village of Avanti in
southern Albania where the villagers killed a Communist agent who had been sent
there to discover who was helping the guerrillas. According to the dispatch, the ac-
tual :caller was immediately liquidated and the entire population removed to the
gypsy villages of Hula and Heric near Tirana. The dispatch added that all the
villages in the Korce area have been similarly evacuated and that the people
concerned are now obliged to report personally every day to the police of the
localities in which they have been resettled.(2)
1. Izmir, Anadolu, 29 Sep 1952
2. Ibid., 1 Oct 1952
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