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Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Albanian Intelligence Director (SHISH) Vlora Hyseni has travelled last month towards Washington, DC, for two very important meetings with key figures of US intelligence services. Hyseni had been deputy chairman of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency (AKI) until 2021, when he was dismissed from the double Albin Kurti and Vjosa Osmani. [...]
It is reported that at the meeting with John Ratcliffe, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a series of bilateral co-operation issues were discussed, where the excellent partnership with the SHESH was stressed in the interest of identifying and preventing common threats.
Ratings were exchanged on the regional and international security situation, discussed deepening co-operation, as well as boosting intelligence capacities.
In the American capital, Mrs. Hyseni also met with leaders and senior officials of the US National Intelligence Office (ODNI), the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), within bilateral co-operation and strategic partnerships.
At the meeting with Mrs. Tolsi Gabbard, the director of US National Intelligence, discussed issues of co-operation and challenges in the field of intelligence and security, with interest in Albania and Kosovo's national security.
Vlora Hyseni was fired from her post at AKI at the start of receiving mandate from Albin Kurti and President Vjosa Osmani.
In June 2021 it was dismissed. President Vjosa Osmani and Prime Minister Albin Kurti were announced by the prime minister's office, ruling on Hysen's dismissal.
“The decision is taken in support of Article 6 (paragraph 4) of Law No. 03 L-063 for the Kosovo Intelligence Agency ( GZ, No. 30, June 15, 2008). The dismissal decision is binding on Mrs. Vlora Hyseni makes the delivery of all the tools and materials he has been loaded with. Also, Mrs. Vlora Hyseni, according to the verdict, is obliged to store all the information he received during his duty exercise, whether he was given access to them or in any other form has managed to possess classified information. The discovery or failure of classified information represents criminal acts punishable under the No.06/074 Code Criminal of the Republic of Kosovo, Law No. 03,L-178 for Classification of Information and Verification of Security and other relevant legislation related to classified”, the world was said in announcing the Office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo.
However, this decision did not leave Mrs. Hyseni without other options. Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama, had immediately invited Hyseni to Albania and made him director of Albanian intelligence.
