Dashnor Kaloçi
Part fifteen
Memorie.al publishes some archival documents extracted from the Central State Archive in Tirana (the fund of the former PPSh Central Committee), which belong to the year 1982, where there is a file with relations, reports, instructions, information, letters , minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau, the Secretariat of the Central Committee, etc., regarding the “hostile activity” of the member of the Political Bureau and the Minister of People’s Defense, Kadri Hazbiu, as well as some of his closest collaborators, such as: Feçor Shehu, Mihallaq Ziçishti, Llambi Peçini, Zoi Themeli, etc., who were accused by Enver Hoxha, as “the main collaborators of the police agent Mehmet Shehu”. In the file in question, there is also a document with Kadri Hazbi’s self-criticism, dated September 27, 1982, sent to Enver Hoxha and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PPSh, regarding “his poor work at the head of the Ministry of of Internal Affairs and the lack of vigilance, for not detecting hostile groups, all of which the party and Comrade Enver had discovered”. In this document, the former head of the Ministry of the Interior writes: “From the beginning of September, when I was getting my hair cut, a driver who works with the transport lines abroad came to me and told me that, returning from abroad, the drivers they had spoken badly about my fate. I didn’t ask him what he had been told, but I told him to go and report it where it should be. He added in more detail that he had spoken to the companion who stays with me, which I ordered him to report. He told me that he had done this. I don’t know whether I told him about this case or not, friend Hekuran. After a few days when I returned from a 3-4 day service, my family told me for the first time that they are taking us on the phone and so on, in meetings they ask about you, where are you and how are you, because we have heard things not good, as if we have escaped as a family abroad, as if I have been dismissed from my position as Minister of Defense, etc. I told you that anyone who asks about us, you say we are fine and don’t engage in further conversation. I emphasize that these things have spread so much that even one of the workers who serves in my family left without expecting that something is happening with me and my family. All these things, I told my friend Ramiz, together with my opinion that there is not enough fight against these harmful slogans and that they are spreading from Tirana in the first place”. Likewise, the document in question also contains the minutes of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PPSh, held on October 8, 1982, where the “hostile activity of Kadri Hazbi” from the period after the war when he was in the position of Chief of Army Security, which has brought fierce debates, they all discussed, starting from: Adil Çarçani, Hekuran Isai, Simon Stefani, Manush Muftiu, Rita Marko, Prokop Murra, Photo Çami, Lenka Çuko, Pali Miska, Besnik Bekteshi, Muho Asllani and Llambi Gegprifti. Even the debates and strong tones in that meeting were not absent between Enver Hoxha and Kadri Hazbiu, which continued throughout the meeting, for several sessions. But for more about these, we know the document, which is published for the first time by Memorie.al
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The document with the minutes of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PPSh, held on October 8, 1982, where the “hostile activity” of Kadri Hazbi was analyzed
ALBANIAN LABOR PARTY TOP SECRET
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
RECORDS
OF THE MEETING OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF THE PPS CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON OCTOBER 8, 1982
Agenda:
- Discussion on the serious words of friend Kadri Hazbiu
- Approval of the report on transport to the plenum
All members of the Political Bureau are present at the meeting.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEETING
The meeting was opened and led by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the PPS, Comrade Enver Hoxha.
Discussion on the serious crimes of comrade Kadri Hazbiu.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Kadri, this is what Comrade Hysni wrote to Mehmet, so that you can keep in mind. (Reads friend Hysni’s letter).
“Comrade Mehmet, Kadriu sent me this letter that talks about some of our cadres, who, when they were studying in the Soviet Union, were collaborators of our Security agencies. The Soviet Security was also aware of this, and he even had connections with some of them. Kadriu also gave me a special piece of information about Malo Harshova, which I gave back to act on, just as we agreed together when we spoke on the phone. He told me he sent it to you too. I called Kadri and asked him for explanations about these cadres who were collaborators when they were in schools in the Soviet Union…”.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: I mean that you know these people.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: (Continues reading Comrade Hysni’s letter). “He told me that the Soviet Security was notified by the Ministry, based on the connections they had at the time when the students returned.”
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: That this action was done in 1954.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Yes, he has informed them (Continues reading the letter).
“After 1960, when we broke with the Soviets, Kadriu told me, all these cadres who were called by the responsible comrades of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, were told not to have any problems, due to the fact that they had connections with the Security Soviet that the recommendations for this work have been given since then. So these cadres clarified, calmed down, and Kadriu told me, we no longer had work with them as collaborators. The documents we had about them were destroyed. I instructed Kadri to be careful with these people, because this is how the issue of Malo Harshova turns out, so the place where they will be sent to work should be well taken into account. Here, in the apparatus of the Central Committee, there has not been any document to prove that they were charged with such tasks by the internal bodies”.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: It is clear and this has been checked.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: (Continues reading Comrade Hysni’s letter), on January 13, 1975, and their appointment has been made.
COMRADE RITA MARKO: Kristaq Qarri was appointed that same year.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Even Hysniu clarifies that he had instructed Kadri to: “be careful with these cadres, that’s how it turned out with Malo Harshova”, who, in fact, we made a commander.
COMRADE RITA MARKO: As for Kristaq Qarri, he had a greater responsibility, as he was appointed director of the Operational Directorate in the Ministry of Defense.
COMRADE HEKURAN ISAI: Yes, in self-criticism, Comrade Kadri, says that he continued the tradition he found. In fact, Comrade Kadri has read this letter that he has searched for it and it is not true that he has continued the tradition he found. The report of Ismail Qineti in the Soviet Union, the operative group composed by himself, which was sent in 1947 as part of the diplomatic representation, disguised in legal functions, start from work, setting up the necessary agency, without having any connection with the cordons of the country , even, they had no knowledge of their being in our diplomatic representation. In 1949, this group left the Soviet Union and began work in 1955. It was charged with regular official liaison with Soviet counterintelligence agencies. So, what Kadriu says, that he continued the tradition, this official tradition did not exist, is true.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: It did not exist.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, what can I tell you, I know that this is how this matter existed?
COMRADE HEKURAN ISAI: Yes, look, look.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Yes, you also asked for this report, it was done in your time.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Well, no, well, I asked that they were burned.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: I mean, you saw it yourself at that time.
COMRADE ENVER HIXHA: Yes, they are dated, these are reports, and they cannot be passed easily like this.
COMRADE RITA MARKO: I also had one thing. You were aware that our Party or Comrade Enver was criticized or told by the Soviets, by Beria and by Bulganin, that in the Army, you have suspicious cadres, we have information about this.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes, that’s right.
COMRADE RITA MARKO: You were aware of this. Then, how did you organize this Discovery in June 1953?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Even I would add this, that the man who was in the meeting raised his chin, I mean Bulgani, who was next to me and said: Okay, Comrade Enver, we will give you these weapons, but we have information that in your army, there are sons of beylers, agallars, etc. I was revolted and asked him: Who gave you this information, Comrade Bulganin? This barbell and looked at Beria. I repeated the question: Please, I said, tell me this! Fap, jumped Beria, who expressed that he did not agree with Bulganin, because we also had such a situation, where it was from, in Azerbaijan, or where I know, like this, or like that. You may have done it, but we have not done it, I objected, because some of them may have been sons of beylers and agallars, but they went to war with their parents, tied them up and hanged them when were hostile, I pointed out. Later, Hurshov, when he shot Beria, said to me: “You helped us to discover Beria”, as if he did not know what Beria was. However, “you helped us”, he told us. I have the issue here, who had given this information to them?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I don’t know, maybe the advisors we had.
COMRADE RITA MARKO: How come you don’t know, friend Kadri? You were the head of Army Security; you were also the first deputy at that time.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, come out.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Kadri did not come here, the advisers did.
COMRADE LLAMBI GEGPRIFTI: What about the advisers, where did they get this information?
COMRADE ADIL ÇARÇANI: Why would they give the advisers?
COMRADE RITA MARKO: And how would the advisers give our cadres?!
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Comrade Rita, wait a minute, why will I pay for all the things? Wasn’t Beqir Balluku their agent? Mehmet Shehu, wasn’t he their agent?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes, they were, as were Feçor Shehu, Llambi Peçini, and Mihallaq Ziçishti.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Well, well, I will bear that responsibility, that as a minister; I officially left a path for the Soviet advisers to get this data that I still don’t know about today? I am saying that I do not know that this work was done without the knowledge of the Central Committee of the Party.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: How did you not know this?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, Comrade Enver, I found this practice that was applied there.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: How did you find it, like that? This is not true; it is not true at all?
COMRADE HEKURAN ISAI: You didn’t find it that way that this happened in 1955.
COMRADE ADIL ÇARÇANI: Until 1953, exactly at the time of Stalin, the situation was completely different. From this time on, all these things are officially done.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, yes, friend Adil. But you are not letting me finish thinking about a certain issue.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: You finish your opinion, finish it, but finish it very badly. Do not involve the Central Committee in this matter. Mehmet Shehu was a member of the Political Bureau, but at the same time he was an agent, while you participated in all these actions.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, I also participated in them.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: You understand now, you understand this now, but not then, because these people allegedly came to me, and these things were also done in my name.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: This is how I understand it.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Ah, no, I don’t accept that.
ALL FRIENDS: No, no, ore.
COMRADE PALI MISKA: You don’t tell us, but now how do you understand?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Because what you say is not true, why you claim in your self-criticism, that the door to the Party has never been closed to you, to express your opinion. Then, when you repeatedly went to talk to Mehmet Shehu and Beqir Balluku, why didn’t you come to me?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, for which one?
FRIEND ENVER HOXHA: For which?! Yes, to inform us about the delivery of documents, about the delivery of the agency, about all this. Why didn’t you come to me, why didn’t you at least come to Hysniu, who knows nothing about these matters?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, that’s why I say Comrade Enver that even Comrade Rita, it’s not good to say as if you don’t know anything, that these things, case by case, we have discussed with him as well.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: I am convinced that it is as Comrade Rita said that he does not know anything about these documents and actions. It is possible that we made a mistake that we did not let friend Rita knows these things, that is why he does not know them. Regarding Security issues, Hysniu should know, I should know, Mehmet Shehu should know, while friend Rita, with all Llazi Stratobërdë, followed the issues of the framework of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was then taken and decided by the Secretariat. For you to say that you went to your friend Rita and told him, this is not true.
COMRADE RITA MARKO: Not a single thing, in any way, we only dealt with personnel issues.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I told him.
COMRADE RITA MARKO: Even if you told me about anything that might have come up in the proceedings, even the smallest things, I immediately went and told Comrade Enver.
COMRADE MANUSH MYFTIU: I had a question, Comrade Kadri. Since 1975, former secretary of the Hysniu Central Committee, he writes that he knows nothing about these actions. We also do not know how these are made. In my opinion, upon receiving this signal, you should have been alarmed and come here and say that the Central Committee does not know anything about this matter, come to Comrade Enver, in the first place, and inform him that I received a verbal order from Mehmet Shehu, to act like this, like this with these cadres, when I know that you said it, while my friend Hysni lets us know that he does not know anything. How did you not care one bit about him?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, he is talking about the lists, take it, Comrade Manush.
COMRADE MANUSH MYFTIU: No, no, he is talking about agency issues.
COMRADE ADIL ÇARÇANI: What attention did you get when you found out that the Central Committee didn’t know anything? Did something catch your attention here? Is this logic?! You had to come immediately to your friend Enver and tell him what had happened.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Did you sing Hysni’s letter?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I sang it.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Did you also sing Mehmet’s letter?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, I sang that too. Memorie.al
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