3 hours agoCIA document 1951: Yugoslav UDB efforts to recruit Albanians in Syria
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)After the breakup of relations between Albania and Yugoslavia in 1948 The Yugoslav UDB had made many attempts to overthrow Enver Hoxha's power, but had always failed. This is also evidenced by this 1951 CIA document, writes family.net CIA Document 1951: In early October 1951, Ljubo Kovacevic, adviser to [...]
After the breakup of relations between Albania and Yugoslavia in 1948 The Yugoslav UDB had made many attempts to overthrow Enver Hoxha's power, but had always failed.
This is evidenced by this 1951 CIA document, writes family.net
CIA document 1951:
In early October 1951, Ljubo Kovacevic, the Acting Adviser of Yugoslav League Affairs in Beirut, went to Damascus, Syria, with the goal of interviewing several Albanian refugees. Among them was an Albanian who, according to CIA sources, has been identified as Colonel Lieutenant Myli, “bayractar of a tribe in Malase”.
During the interview, Kovacevic proposed forming a committee to help combat Enver Hoxha's regime. The committee would have full political and financial support of the Yugoslav government. The committee's task is to lead guerrillas from Yugoslavia's territory to Albania. Refugees were also told that after the fall of the current regime in Albania, the committee would actively participate in the formation of a pro-Tito Albanian republic.
The Albanian Colonel rejected the Serb offer.
The CIA had managed to identify the Albanian colonel and believed he was Muharrem Bajraktari, a staunch anti-communist, said in the document.
