Day 2 of the 35 day challenge...... 2. ALBANIA Between 1949 and 1953, the U.S. and the U.K. set out to overthrow the government of Albania, the smallest and most vulnerable communist country in Eastern Europe. Exiles were recruited and trained to return to Albania to stir up dissent and plan an armed uprising. Many of the exiles involved in the plan were former collaborators with the Italian and German occupation during world war II. They included former Interior Minister Xhafer Deva, who oversaw the deportations of Jews, Communists, partisans and suspicious persons ( as described in a Nazi document) to Auschwitz. Declassified U.S. documents have since revealed that Deva was one of 743 fascist war criminals RECRUITED by the U.S. after the war.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 02:34:10 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015