ANTI-COMMUNIST ACTIVITY IN ALBANIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400540006-4
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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'.SUBJECT Anti.Comnunist Activity in Albania
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1~ Gn 3 December 1948, Albenian police suppressed two attempts at revolt in
Gjinokaster and Fieri. The two revolutionary attempts were carried out by
.'ollovrers of-Koci Koxe, who was reported last October to have been dismissed
as Minister of the Interior as a result of siding with Marshal Tito in the
'latter's dispute with the Cbminform, The revolt was planned to give Tito's
rrmod forces a pretext to occupy Albania. In suppressing the revolt police
:arrested a large though unspecified number of persons, including three high
government officials, possibly cabinet ministers. The latter were arrested
on charges of being involved in the plot and of having been in contact with
the Yugoslav Minister of the Interior, through the Albanian minority of
Kosovo0
2~ The attempted revolution was a sympton of internal divisions which at pre-
sent exist in the Albanian Ccamunist Party. The most important of these
was produced by the alig-_;riment of the Party with the Cominiorm against Marshal
Tito, versus the pro-Tito factions. Several other dissident groups within
the Party are kuovm to exist; only a few details are available,.howevors
The Zjarri Group. This group, the size of which is un-
1Qtcsvn, centersn Tirana and is composed of moderates
who, although Cormunists, are opposed to the violence
cnd terrorism which have characterized all Communist
regimes thus far, -
b? The Te Rint jee Group. To-R:Lnt je is an organisation of
omm~xn'~s gout lthough some opposition to the Coin-
monist r?gi- is known to exist within this group, it
is not believed to bra important.
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The Puna Group, ? T is a Communist labor organization,,
and .t fii i#i f, Ieftiat dissident movement is reported
vzhic h does not r9aA,rd the present Albanian Cannunist
regi a as sufficiently whole-hearted in its attempts to
realize the ,nals of Comruni on,
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113ossibie participants in the re?olt are the following groups, with a total.
membership as indioated:*
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I jarri
5,500 members
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ToRint je
8,000 members
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Pwa
7,000 retbers
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Shkoder a~x4:.i .Ccamm~ar~i_ 3 s
1.500 adherents
Anti-Cc1mTni,Si_stn ir, Arry
$00 adherents
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Anti-Communi stx, in. N ry
roTito Yugoslavs
12.000
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Vione anti.-Cm++-i"tsto
500
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Comment: It is txggested that these figures be treated
v- th-reserve nir_ce they seem to be exaggerated,
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