RESISTANCE TO ARMS BAN IN ALBANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008000460008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Resistance to Ate. a %n in Albania
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REPORT NO.
Refugees viho have recently escaped from Al'ania state that police 1 drons
are se rahing throughout the cities and t owns of Alban-J for arms and a a.i--
ti ,~ Despite their threats, the police have been unsucceseftl as the people
have had time to hide securely the arms abandoned by Italian units during
World W .r IL
`''hese rofugees also state that in s localities of northeastern A.1 t
particularly in the Kokes are.,, the peasants have opposed by force the police
V ho have even attempted to confiscate their hunting guns needed to protect
their locks from wolves,, Because of famine conditions, the peasants in the
Tacautai. s nacre been forced to shoot their dogs for food, and their hunt ng
g ns have OOm n: their only mans of protection against i ild an ale,..
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