RECRUITMENT OF TSAMIDES AND ALBANIAN COLLABORATION WITH THE GREEK GUERRILLAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002800750010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE DISTR. 21 y?ak and Masan., where they received some training and then were taken to
K:rrce on their way to join the guerrilla forces.*
2. The compulsory mobilization of Greek citizens living in Albania,) 'which:
a arced on 13 ;larch 1949, has yielded approximately 1;,500 men and vwanen between
the ages of 16 and 40a, lifter 20 days of military training at Sukth and
E bananw they were sent to Karoo at the beginning of. April 1949 to join the
gu.erriila units.
5 L the middle of April 1949? a large number of vehicles belonging to the
Pe oplo' s Security police were observed moving along the G jinokas ter-Logou
road. Two hundred large "Chevrolet" trucks are being kept at Gjinokaater;
they are used to transport artillery.
4, E rtranco into the area from Kakavjo to Koehovice was banned on 1 April 1949.
5,; It.- is believed that Greek guerrillas based in Albania will invade Greece to
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