1. 18 INFANTRY REGIMENT AND 111 BATTALION 2. MILITARY WAREHOUSE NEAR RUSSAN 3. MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009500190008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 29, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL !NT NCE AGENC1~ REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Albania
SUBJECT 1,. 18 Infantry RegimeiTc and 2.11 Battalion
._ ..litany Warehouse near Rusan
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3, Machine Gun Emplac
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DATE DISTR.
29 Nov 1951
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Capt. Class A Nazif Hoxha:
commanding officer
b,.
Capt. Class A Orasi Tekil:1
chief of staff
c.
it Lt. Acem Sefer: commanding officer of 13.1 battalion
d.
lot Lt. Nuredin .Magus: political commissar of 1U. Battalion
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2,, Ui Battalion has three infantry companies of equal strength, one mac ine
gun company, one mortar company, and an anti-tank platoon with seven anti-
tank rifles. The infantry companies have about 70 men divided among three
platoons; in each squad there is one sub-machine gun.
STATE
ARMY
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Infantry Regiment has the following types of weapons
7.62 :trip 1891/30 rifles
7.62 Daktyrev sub-machine guns
7.62 TT 1933 Tokarev pia 4eols
d. 762 M 1910 machine guns
e. PTRS 1941 and PTRD 1941 anti-tank rifles
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4. About 500 motor waist of the village of Rusan (R.39 -W),, there is a
sing1. tory concrete building 50 x 15 caters which is used as a
storehouse for ari ment and aa+sa nition. Informant saw personnel
tasking Soviet automatic weapons and munition from the warehouse.
Italian atme and anmunition are also reportedly stored there. A
unit of 18 men is assigned to &uurd the warehouse; during the day
there are two guards; at night there are three guards and a patrol
which movee$ around the ware1 ouae. Only the caretaker is permitted
to enter the warehouse,,' The wardwuse is surroundod by a wall one
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5. machine gun emplacmenta 50 meters north
of the bridge at location (80395 23). The emplac monta are about
100 meters atpcurty and the pm are fixed to cover the road,
in J07, 1950 infoa^mnt workad on the construction of four machine gun
e cr.te emp cCIAGntes at Virjon (V ioni). One of the emplace. onts is
oath of the valage and Was ecauth; the other three are soothcaet of
.the v4Alage and face south tst. The empl aceia is measure about an* and
one-half motors in diameter and about two and on f mentors in height,,
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