ALLEGED IMPRISONMENT OF GENERAL HOXHA, TUK JAKOVA AND OTHERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600140008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
IN OF AT ON REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
Albania
DATE DISTR. 2? March 1050
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Alleged Imprisonment of Go r
Tuk Jakova and others UI D
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L. An ueconfirmed report states that General Unver Hoxha has been i::. prison
at 5hengjir for the past 15 days, and that power has been seized by Lieu-
ten t General i hmet Shehu. In addition, Tuk Jakova, tho LLtnisters of
Finance* and Lducation , as well as the Chief of the Executive Cei mittee
of the ilbani .n Coitunist Party in Tirana, have also reportedly been arrested,
Source also aided that Azbod_in Dhehu oonraitted suicide.
A well-placed informant status that the authority of 132ver Hoxha over the
Albanian Army has greatly diminished; the majority of the officers and
enlisted men, even those who had once sup.)ortod the proseix' regime, wore
anxious to revolt. The armed forces are reportedly held in line only through
strict discipline, surveillance by L12, and because of the fact that the army
is composed of Communist veteraale so compromised that their liven depend upon
the continuance of the present govorru.ieiit.
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Commont s Abdul Val 1 ari and Ke:hreraan Yeli, respectively. in
theal cormec - on,` see FBIS Noe 49, dated 13 March 1950., thioh reported
the dismissal of Shugri 1ellesi.
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