YUGOSLAV POLICY VIS-A-VIS ALBANIAN REFUGES IN YUGOSLVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009300300002-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Yugoslav control. The Committee leaders Apostol Tenef and Nik SojColi
CENTRAL INTELLIGENC REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Albania/Yugoslavi~
SUBJECT Yugoslav Policy Vie-a-Vis Albanian Refugees
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OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN 714E MEANING OF TITLE 10. SECTIONS 795
AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE. A3 AMENDED. ITS TRAIISUISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT DY AN UNAMHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED DY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORD IS PROHIBITED-
apparent respect for the BKI is a matter of implementing Yugoslav
policy. with the exception of Lutfi Spahiu,1
who is living in isolation and complete neutrality at -'rizren, the other50X1-HUM
Committee members are the tools of Tenef and Sokoli.
Yugoslav authorities dislike hearing referencesto U. N. principles and
fear that in future peace settlements, Yugoslavia will lose the Kosovo.
As a counter measure they are making an all-out effort to assimilate the
Kosovo with Yugoslavia, and toward this end are orientating and in-
structing the Kosovars in the Tosk dialect. 50X1-HUM
a. Albanian refugees in Yugoslavia total approximately 6,000. Upon
arrival from Albania, where persecution and general 50X1-HUM
misery are still mounting, the refugees are greeted with open arms'
Later treatment by the Yugoslavs depends upon the refugeeee subsequent
manifestation of sympathy for the Tito regime.
b. The Prizren Committee is an instrument of the Yugoslavs for spying on
Albanian refugees in Yugoslavia and for bringing them under close
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c. Certain BKI leaders, who are known to have entered Yugoslavia in the
past few months, are under constant UDB surveillance. Publicly, the
BKI is the object of adulation, as the Yugoslavs hope to exploit BKI
leadership in carrying out their designs with regard to Albania.
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information on Albanian refugee activities in Yugoslavia
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