PRESENCE OF SOVIET PLANES AT SHKODER AIRPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008700340011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Albania/Yugoslavia/USSR DATE DISTR.
SUBJECT Presence of Soviet Plane" NO. OF PAGES
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Upon further checking the allegation that Soviet RIG-l5 fighter planes had
been seen at Shkoder airport was false? and
suggests that it was an "invention o ito a propaganda., esigned to repre-
sent Yugoslavia as being potentially threatened and thus in the need of
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there are only YAK fighter planes in Albania, and
even these are of an obsolete type,,
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