INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R000400070008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 5, 1947
• Content Type: REPORT

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for recruiting of International
Albania is increasing. The
tare Co=mitt a for Anti?Paseist
air of erratic Spain and Greece"
usible for forming the International
Brigades Props ands is directed by the prop-
agenda section o N SH ( st organization of'
the Albanian Youth Movement) . L H is assisted
b the similar Yugoslav organisation UoSkOtT and by
. His assistants ar. brans Perovie, a
slay, and Nicholas ritidis, a Greek.
rajor General Koko Spiru. Minister of National
Colonel Ramadan Xhangolli, has five fully
equipped battalions at its disposal, 'Theo
Military Ceittes: the president of which a~t.
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7th "Batai3onet Bore i Kombit She3nas ?uka" G3inokastrai
The mar depot of arms and munitions from Yugoslavia
and Ca mhoslouakta is at Soder as well as the 38th
*batal4onet Here 3 bit Vojo Sushi", fah is
in the process of completing formation.
R excteption of ?Zoaov
proper names mentioned in paragraphs
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2 and 3 above are are names of Albanian
partisans wbo were, killed in the
resistance. Kosova is the name of an
Albanian female detachment of the
Albanian guerrillas.
of all the above battalions is directed
Evanc>`v of the Soviet Army& who lives
Cemes It is not known whether
this vas nbv :Lx the same as the head of
the present Soviet Mi11tary Mission in
Tyra..
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