INFORMATION ON ALBANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100270005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 2, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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', VF E OF I INFO October 1948
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General Military Information
On 15 December 1-48, men born in 1928 are to be called up for military
;service.
2. Men born in 1926 and 1927 are now serving in the ranks of the Albanian
Arr:).y.
The men cornpo:;ing the border ruard are paid rind trusted members of the
Communist Party of Albania. Their monthly salary amounts to 3s,OCO lek.
In the Loskovik-Korce sectors there are three battalions of border guards.
`f?hc first battalion is based in Korce, the selond in t.rseke, and the third
In Leskovik.
>. In the large towns near the border in the Leskovik-Korce sectors is based
a special military sarv .ce called Seksion Siln:irimi. (Security Section). This
aervice is in close contact with the guard-posts along the Albanian border,,
a: d it has special agent, to collect intelligence from Greece.
Move mints in Durres Harbor
On 15 September 1948 the Soviet S.S. PUSHKIN arrived in Durres with a cargo
af. 2,600 tons of wheat and v .th farm tools. TL- _s was in compliance with
he provisions of the commercial treaty signed :l .n September b t.:een the
Soviet Union and Albania.
On 22 September 1948 the Rumanian S.S. Tj?ANSYLVA11IA arrived in Durres bringing
600 tons of newsprint and many covered cases whose content were unknon ..
. mrbuniti. on Dump;
There is a store of war materiel in the Church of *gios Nikolaos ir, the villame
of LiasoL"o(sic).
in the village of Tsarisovo (sic) there are stores of war materiels clothing,
foodstuffs. There is alsc a military bakery.
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100 There is an anti-aircraft gun permanently mounted at the place called
Koutrolitsa (sic) at Leskovik.
conomie and Industrial Information
11. During September 1948 in `oseow a commercial treaty was signed by the
Minister of Foreign Cora morce of the Soviet Union Mikoyan and by an Albanian
commercial representation consisting of six members led by Tuk Jakova,
Minister of Industry and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of
Albania. This treaty is for the year 1948; on the basis of it the Soviet
Union will send to Albania a large quantity of grain, automobiles, and
machinery. A special article of this treaty provides for its renewal
.for the follotiarinr_; year.
12. On the basis of the commercial treaty between the Government of the Soviet
Union and Enver Hoxha, which was signed during Fioxha's trip to r'oscow
in duly 1947, the Soviet Union will sell three factories to Albania:
a. A sugar refinery with an annual (sic) capacity of 1,000 tons. This
factory will be erected near Lake Maliki (sic) near Korce. It will
employ about 500 unskilled and skilled workmen. Construction work will
begin in March 1949 and is to be completed in 1951. 'Production is to
start in the fall of 1951. Near the refinery will be constructed a
housing project for the corkers and their families.
b. A woolen mill with an annual capacity of 20,000,000 meters of cloth.
This will be constructed in Tirana. Construction is to commence about
the end of 1950, and production is to begin in 1951.
c. A leather factory, also to be erected in Tirana. Construction will
begin about the end of 1950, and production is to commence about the
end of 1951. A housing project for 4,600 persons is to be erected in
Tirana for the workers in the leather factory and the woolen mills.
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