GENERAL GRISHIN IN ALBANIA; ANTI-HOXHA ACTIVITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100530005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 8, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY
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SUBJECT General { rishin in Albania;
Anti-HIoxha i:etivity
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE Or IIITi
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INFORMAT(O
1. The Soviet Colonel General Ivan ihonovic Grishin is in Albania, exercising
the functions or Chic C of Staff of the Albanian Grmy. The Soviet Colonel
Vassilievski has undertaken the organization of the coast dofense of
Alb4.nia. One hundred and twenty officers of the Soviet Array have gone
with General Sl:iyranov to i,lh. nia.
2. Tho movement against the Hoxha regime in s.lbania is spreading in the
mountainous region of Skrapani.
3. The .Political Corsa:-issar of Koroc and marry o" his friends have taken to
4. Cesare -'ortuz9i, a person in the co;nfidenoe of King ' off;, has arrived'
in Home from Cairo. Ile is trying to persuade the Italian'7inistry of
Por?jgn f fairs to rooo^-iize the passports issued by the' Albanian Consulate
in Cairo.
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Date 11
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