By Afrim Imaj
Part four
Memorie.al / “I, the Security Operative of the Burrel Prison, who coexisted with the ‘enemies of the people'”! However, I will try to make this statement; “to respect” in its essence. I say in its essence, that the forms used by the State Security, such as: the secret network, operational techniques, surveillance, postal control and others, have already appeared in the market. In my stories, I will try to be accurate. To be as truthful as possible, I am obliged to mention concrete names, but never those that should remain a secret. I have decided to take these with me to the grave. After finishing the School of the Ministry of the Interior, I started working with the image that they had created for us as “enemies of the class and the motherland”. I did not encounter this image in practice as it was preached to us, and gradually in my consciousness, it began to fade. A powerful influence, in changing the concept created in me about the class enemy, has played “coexistence”, with the convicts of the prison of Burrell, for many years in a row.
Continues from last issue
It was afternoon when we arrived in Gjirokastra. According to the order, Avdul Banushi (the agent who would eliminate Enver Hoxha) was placed in one of the dungeons of the Department of Internal Affairs.The news of his arrival set the Banushi tribe, brothers, sister and brother-in-law in motion.
A full four days and four nights. They met and talked with Avdul. Returning to Burrel, stirred him even more spiritually. In the late hours of the evening, as I left him in his room, in prison, realizing what I was thinking, he said to me: – You will leave me alone for some time, until I gather myself…!
– No problem, I told him. When you are ready, let me know…! After three days, in the mailbox, I found the letter that Avduli sent me. I opened the envelope in one breath and read: “I’m waiting for you to come. As we left it, we will start talking just the two of us, without the presence of others.
I want to show you, as a start, a problem that constitutes a real labyrinth…”! I prepared the office and ordered the guard officer to bring him there. I filled two glasses with brandy and we clinked them, congratulating each other. As soon as we took the first sip, Avduli spoke:
– Today I want to talk about our base at the “X” hotel in Durrës, where we would stay after entering Albania. We would go there, with the help of the Yugoslav Intelligence agent, Abibe C., residing in the city of Kavaje. We would establish links with it through the slogan: “The Rock of Kavaja is mined” and against the slogan: “We have a specialist, for the deactivation of mines”.
Abibe C., was in contact with the other agent of the Yugoslav Intelligence, ZH.D., a major officer in the ranks of the army, from whom he received military information, of interest to the Yugoslavs. These data, Abibe C., delivered to the UDB officer, J.M., in the physical meetings, every three months, that they held in a village of Shishtavec, in the district of Kukës and sometimes in the Yugoslav territory.
Abibe C., is originally from the villages of Kukës and has some relatives there. This justifies her visit there. She is about 35 years old and separated from her husband, of average height, brunette, presentable and well-kept female. When I left for Albania, A.H., originally from Gjakova, living in New York, who had come to America from Kosovo not long ago and had become close to our organization, told me about it. A.H. had been an officer of the UDB and had a relationship with Abibe C.,
He gave me her photo, a week before departure, and when I was arrested at the border, the photo, along with some other items, were seized and confiscated. When they asked me in the interrogator about the pictures, I said they were my friends in America. A.H. also told me about the channel that the Yugoslav Discovery had in Durrës. K.L., residing in this city and working at the “X” hotel, maintained connections with the UDB through Abibe C.
I am convinced that the fugitive Xhevdet Mustafa, who came as a saboteur in 1982, after the clash with the Albanian police, headed for Kavajë, with the idea of taking refuge with Abibe C…!
AGENT IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
While talking to me in good faith, Avduli stayed for a while and after some time, he reminded me that he would tell me the names of other agents who worked for foreign intelligence. In the next meeting, he told me, I will talk about a major officer, in the Ministry of Defense, who serves for an anti-Albanian agency. One of his brothers is an officer of the Ministry of Interior.
It is named after an ancient Greek philosopher. He is passionate about hunting. I learned this fact in Ioannina, in 1974, when I had come from America to enter Albania. There, through my friend, Nikolla Plasoti, a fugitive from Albania, living in Preveza, I met Ilia P., who was the secretary of a Western embassy in Tirana and served as a secret spy.
That’s it, Avduli told me those moments and after asking my permission, he left. So, I went to my office in the Branch and started to process the information that had to do with the foreign intelligence network.
In summary, I mentioned what Avduli told me about the intelligence agent in the Ministry of Defense and the embassy secretary, Ilia P. The next day, as soon as I entered the prison, I went to Avduli’s room. I ordered the service policeman to lock the door from the outside and come there only when I called him.
We started the conversation. I had planned to stay longer and started to ask him. He answered quietly. I often checked the clock and when the moment came that the tape was about to end and had to be changed, I would go out and “go to the toilet”.
-You mean that the secretary of the embassy, Ilia P., performs American intelligence duties? – I interrupted him.
-Of course. I have something else for I.P. In 1973, he employed a girl, named Sh., with whom he had an intimate relationship. As he told me in Ioannina, he took them to her
and a gift television. Sh. works as a nurse in the Military Hospital and through an oficer provides information of interest, about Ilia P. The officer, as N. Plasoti told me, is originally from the South…!
– Ilia P., – continued Avdyli, when we met in Ioannina, he spoke with N. Plasoti and L. Guveli about three people, from a southern city of Albania, that later from N. Plasoti, I learned that they were K.K., Q.J. , B.A., who acted in cooperation, as senior agents. One of these was an important functionary. N. Plasoti, suggested to me that; when I entered Albania, I would try to meet them, with the slogan “We must love the source”.
With them you will find safe bases and away from danger. Because they are trusted by the government. I was surprised by this information, not only that I knew the above persons personally, but that I had obtained this very information before from another trusted source. I was sure that if I sent this information to the ministry, it would be appreciated immediately. Although they were trusted by the power, they were not part of any powerful clan.
Afterwards, Avduli told me about the bases of FRASH in Tirana, Vlorë, Gjirokastër, Korçë, Elbasan and elsewhere. Meanwhile, he also remembered the name of the major officer in the Ministry of Defense, who was in contact with the secretary of the foreign embassy, who was called S.M., and one of his brothers worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
– The secretary of the embassy, Ilia P., – continued Avduli, – in Ioannina, told N. Plasot and L. Guveli, that S.M., with the intervention of Ilia, a year ago, was transferred from the district where he served and appointed to the Ministry of Defense. He gave him an expensive shotgun.
Next, Avdyli told me previously unknown facts. He told me about some people who were in the service of the organization FRASH, abroad. I knew some of them, especially those living in Vlora and Gjirokastër. Important bases were also in Savër of Lushnja, where several opponents of the system suffered exile.
Connections with the base in Savër were maintained through a collaborator from Lushnja. During this conversation, Avduli explained to me in detail the event of November 1974, when he had come to Albania from America, with his friend from Devolli, Ibrahim D., to assassinate Enver Hoxha…! Memorie.al
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