ECONOMIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240472-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 472
• Publication Date: July 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFIG+TION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY AlDania
SUBJECT Economic
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily : eoepaper
LANGUAGE
WHERE
PUBLISHED Andizbar., USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 21 May 1949
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CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIST7v'ul 1949
NO. OF PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.?
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOURCE Stalinskoye Zz ya, No 98 (2071), 1949.
During the war, most of the mines, factories, and power plants in Albania
were either destroyed or plundered of their machinery. Almost all the bridges
in Albania and the harbor inatallatione in Durres and Vlore flalonag were
blown up, and 37 percent of the residential buildings were burned. The State
Bank was thoroughly lotted.
Through the enthualastic efforts of the people, and especially through
the brigades of voluntesr workers formed by the Albanian youth, the water was
pumped out of flooded mines, bridges were built over mountain torrents, old .
roads Lj_Fi repaired and new ones in i-5_ The Durres-Pegin railroad and the paved
mountain highway between Eukau end Poshkopi were built by Albanian youth.
Workers at the Kuoove and Patos oil wells undertook to ros*..:~re the oil wells
on their own initiative, often working around the clock. By mid-1947, all
Albanian industry had beep fully restored, end ?was producing better than in
1935.
Since the war, Albanian workers have been building new factories and
plants as well as expanding existing ones. At the end of last year, a major
'factory for spare p3.rts for motor vehicles was built in Tirana, and the first
sugar refinery in Albania was built at gotta. The Tirana-Durres railroad line
connecting the capital with the main Albanian seaport was completed this year.
A large textile combine is under construction in Tirana. Another sugar re-
finery to be built this year near Eorce will be able to supply all the addi-
tional sugar reguirsmeats of the country.
STATE HAW MSRB
ARMY AIR FBI
'y-~ D I.STR I B LITI O
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