MILITARY INFORMATION ON ALBANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002900050001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Albania
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SUBJECT Military Information on Albania
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1r 5 Division, under the command of Vassili Bollass (a native of Roz't e n 1, rirue,
from the town o f Korea), has its headquarters at G jinokastera
2, 7 and. 31 Infantry Regiments are also stationed at Gjinokasster, while 18 Regi-
ment is at Sarande*
3p 31 Infantry Regiment at (jinokaster has recently been reinforced by a heavy
battery composed of four 120 mm guns.
5~ A now heavy artillery regiment is being formed at Elbasaan**.
f o Of the 3-ton military trucks which Russia has given to Albania, eight have
been allotted to each battery. Similar Russian trucks have also been assigned
to field artillery units of 75 mm. guns to replace the draft animals hitherto
In use.
7p The greater part of the anti-aircraft artillery of the Gjinokaeter Division
is posted on the heights north of that town, and a smaller part at the for-
tress at Gjinokaster. It is composed of four 37 mm guns and four 2G mm. guns.
S. Recently a company of engineers has been moved from Gjinokaster to Gjorgucat
in order to calm tract fortifications in that area. Workmen and masons are
a ready assembled there for this purpose.
9a Six Russian officers, headed by a lieutfuent colonel, are reportedly staying
in Gjinokasstera On 17 and 18 April 3.949 three of them, accompanied by Albanian
officers, inspected the front line sectors on the border between Kakavje and
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indicates the units belong to 3 Divia on
para. 2, reports the formation of a DMP
regiment at sang, these tiro reports, however, need not necessarily be
mutually exclusive.
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Archivist of the United States.
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