REARMANMENT OF THE ALBANIAN ARMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009300470012-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 16, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION
CENTRAL TIC I WG% AGENCY REPORT
INFO ATIO 1` -REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Albania,/USSR
SUBJECT Rearmament of the Albanian Army
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCOAERT CONTAi&$ INFORMATION AFFECTING TEE NATIONAL OEFEN$E
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE EEANIEO OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 708
AND E4. OF THE V. S. CODE. AS ATIERDED- ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF 11$ COSTERT$ TO OR EECEIPT ST AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED ET LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS PORN IS PRONIDITED.
DATE DISTR. 16 Nov. 1951
NO. OF PAGES 1
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Antes are being shipped to Albania from other Satellite countries in line with
the Soviet Union o s plan to furnish the Albanian Army with more modern and
standardized equipment.
2. The weapons arrive in Albanian ports packed in huge boxes with contents
marked as various types of machinery.
3. An attempt is being made to supply artillery units with equipment of
Soviet manufacture. Infantry units are reportedly to be furnished arms
of German manufacture taken from Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland
and shipped to Albania by way of Gdynia.
4? Some infantry units on the Yugoslav border, however, are equipped with
Soviet sub-machine guns.
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