NIKOLLË LOKA
Av. ALFDRED DUKA
NIKOLIN KURTI
The twentieth part
-Continuing the tradition of native Catholic clergy –
Continues from last issue
Cooperation for the state and only in its interest
While serving the sentence
Secret
Single specimen
Tirana, on 15.2.1971
EXCERPT
Taken from the conversation between Ndoc Sahatçi and Lezina Ashta
Heard with T.O. dated 12.2.71
Legend:
P – Follow Sahatçia
M – Lezina Ashta
P – It seems to me that Dom Anton Doçi was also concerned.
M – Eh.
P – Anton Doçin
M – Did they catch him?
P – I think that too.
M – Tutkun.
P – Thank goodness I didn’t have to deal with them!
M – Thank you. Will they have done anything, or about the brother’s issue?
P– Who knows? The case of Dom Stephen.
M – What about Dom Shtjefni?
P– What did Dom Shtjefni say? Well, what do we need in hell!
M – No, no, but…
P – I have a little worry about Dom Shtjefni, don’t say that I felt like this, I spoke like this. That work is real dude…
Note: This conversation takes place between the two aforementioned persons, after the formal meeting we had with Ndoc Sahatçina, who was asked by us if he knew anything about the arrest of Dom Shtjefi and Anton Doçi. He pretended not to know anything. But from the outside, he showed some shock, especially when we told him that Dom Shtjefni had been arrested.
We are of the opinion that this material will be used by you during the investigation with Dom Shtjefni to reveal the nature of the relationship between them.
Operative Workshop
Petro Angjeli
“Secret”
Specimen No. 1
Kruje, on 13.4.1973
Relationship
“On the realization of the processing of 2/A, of Shqefan Kurti”
Shqefan Kurti, son of Jaku and Katrina, born in 1898, born in Prizren, Yugoslavia, resident of Gurëz street, Krujë district, highly educated, unmarried, unorganized, convicted once in 1947 with 20 years for hostile activity, wealthy commercial class, former parish priest, with Albanian citizenship and nationality.
The above-mentioned one has completed high school with philosophy at the Jesuit school in Shkodra, went to and finished the “Theology” high school, which he started in Austria and finished in Rome, Italy, and after finishing school, he is appointed priest in Yugoslavia, with the duty of Secretary of the Archbishopric in Skopje. In 1930 he came to Albania and served as a parish priest in the district of Kruja and in Tirana until 1946, when he was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison for hostile activities.
During the time of Zog’s anti-popular regime, as a parish priest he maintained contact with the heads of Catholicism in Albania or directly with the Vatican, as well as with the authorities of the regime in force. During the Italian-German occupation in our country, as well as during the N.Ç War, it maintained a deeply hostile attitude. He, exercising hostile activity against the N.Çl movement, has maintained close ties with foreign intelligence missions in Albania as well as with the English general Hudson, Colonel Palmer and major Zmith. With the cadres of the American intelligence as: with Mr. Jakob, Andon Stevens, Ndok Gjevaliku, Fulcin, etc. and with the French missionaries after liberation. Similarly, after the liberation together with Anton Dukagjini, they compiled a report in 3 copies and sent it to the American and English missions that were in Albania.
He corresponded directly with the Vatican and received money from there to distribute to Catholic priests in Albania. He connected criminals with foreign intelligence and joined the Party created by Sami Qeribashi.
In 1946, he was arrested for hostile activities and in 1947; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, which he served in the prison of enemies of the people in the district of Mati.
In 1963, he was released from prison and came to the village of Gurëz, where until the time of the closing of the churches, he engaged in religious work privately and after their closing, he worked as a worker in the coop. farmers. Stone. Even after his release from prison, being a sworn enemy of the People’s Power Party, he started his hostile activity again, initially contacting and commenting together with the former priests, Zef Bic and Mark Dushin, on the news of the Vatican, the measures taken against religion which they called him without rights and other comments, and after the arrest of Zef and Mark, he gathered together some thieves of cooperative wealth such as Pjetër Biba, Mark Bardhokun, Zef Nishin, Agostin Preçin, Fran Nocin and Ndue Letin, etc., who at first encourages them to steal more of the cooperative property, telling them: “Steal, because you steal the property, your sweat and labor” and later gradually organizes these thieves into a group and together with them, develops the hostile activity in the form of appropriation of cooperative wealth, in that of agitation and propaganda, in encouraging escape abroad and in the form of sabotage, advising them that if we steal, damage and sabotage, the economic condition of the cooperative will be weakened, the income of the members of the cooperative will decrease, these will become unsatisfied, and we don’t need to talk about that, rise up against the government.
For this hostile activity, on the part of our bodies on 16.4.1970, processing 2/A was taken, in the group together with the persons mentioned above, and on 11.6.1970, he was arrested together with the other members of the group, the investigation and whose processing in the dungeon was carried out by the investigation of the Ministry of the Interior P., where in the end it turned out that the group consisting of the persons we mentioned above, led by Shqefa Kurti, had carried out their hostile activity in the forms we mentioned above and for that hostile activity, the people’s justice punished Shqefni by firing squad, and the other members of the group with other measures of imprisonment.
It is worth noting that this group had put many other people in the way of the appropriation of cooperative property, some of whom were convicted as a group, for appropriation of cooperative property, such as Luigj e Ndue Vata, Zef Gjon Neli and Palok Dede. Hassan, while the rest were unmasked, counseled and released.
Operative Workshop
(Qemal Karamani)
APPROVED
Head of the P. Interior Branch
Dhosi Pecani
Specimen No. 1
Itches on 13/4/1973
DECISION
“On archiving the formal file in 2/A, Shqefan Kurti”
I Shqefën Kurti, son of Jaku and Katrina, born in 1898, born in Prizren, Yugoslavia and resident in Gurëz, Krujë district, in higher education, unmarried, former Catholic priest, convicted once in 1947 of 20 years in prison, on 16.4.1970 was processed 2/A, by our bodies for hostile group activity, sentenced to death and executed for hostile group activity, carried out in the form of appropriation of cooperative property, incitement to escape abroad and sabotage which form also absorbed the activity developed in the other forms that we said above.
Guided by operative agency evidence, point III of this regulation, which deals with the study and evaluation of materials for storage, as per letter “c” of this point.
I decided:
That the formal file in 2/A, of Shqefa Kurti, be sent for storage in the archives of the Ministry of the Interior for historical value, because his activity is related to foreign missions, to activity in the form of organization, treason to homeland and sabotage in the cooperative and socialist wealth.
Operative Workshop
(Qemal Karamani)
Other evidence against Dom Shtjefën Kurti
Beloved sister, brother, niece and daughter-in-law, etc.!
I received your letter a week ago, sister. I thank all their daughters-in-law, the greatest love, they wrote to me in that letter. I was happy, especially when I learned about the health of all of you, good, at work, all of you Maria, soon I was with a boy and a happy girl. Me, it’s been a year since they haven’t seen me like this, with the exception of the postcard during the Christmas and winter holidays.
Don’t look at me, I’m old, I’m in my 70s, and you can write to me a little more often, it’ll make me happy.
My health is good, I work as much as I can, I am content, I am satisfied. I go and stay from time to time, from time to time, at Keli’s and anywhere else. I wash the clothes myself, clean and cook. If only there were ace grains of meat for soup. Keli comes often, because he comes to take the bread to the bakery, I have a building near it, work and everything, I’m very well, tell me about packages. I have sold it, up to the watch. If you had the opportunity, bring a thick flannel, for work, a coat, for the circus, a jacket that I can use, as much as they ruin them.
As you said, I am 70 years old and you had a chance, anything else you know you have a chance all together. But, separately, are the packages allowed, are the clothes allowed, how are they at Easter, are they all good? Did you recover completely? How do I have the file? The children of older sisters, how do I have them? Lina completely forgot about me. Her only one telegram a year and nothing else. Luigi not at all, Ninja and her in oblivion. I remember and love you all with longing and love. I have your photos on the wall, and I have your photos on my side, your sister on top with children together.
I pray to you with holy Mary, you sister, Krista and Vera with children, Palushi and the bride, and the letter is also found with a baby, Toni, Pashka to his family, one by one and all of them.
I hug and kiss you with love.
Many thanks from Kel.
Your brother and uncle Shtjefni
Gurez, February 13, 1968
Beloved sister, nephew, daughter-in-law and great-granddaughter!
I received your love letter before any time. I was glad to hear from you through the letter that you were in good health. I, after a need to languish in bed, am now fine. The people of the village where I live have served me during my illness with love, like a brother or a father. I am very grateful to you. From the letter, I learned what those three brothers were like: you, Palë, and your mother, while Krista and Toni, in two separate nests. It was good for me, because this is how you valued life, the ruler of the house, more. You have kept the love in the family, an economy has been perfected. Nana, on the contrary, you follow closely, you go as far as the other, and you caress the little ones of one boy and the other. Yes, rams, bring me those grains of meat for soup, and a jacket like next time.
I congratulate you, sister, as Pali wrote to me, that you have not been in good health, you started with holding back. I, on the other hand, have lost 22 kilos of weight, but I’m fine and I’m not sick. You Paul excuse Nana and the place of brotherhood, as well as the daughter-in-law that you can write to me. I don’t have any complaints with you, I told you the reason in the first letter, but my mother is such a loser, don’t listen to any of the sons, daughters-in-law, or tell me what she has, just two words, and me he comforted his brother cuckoo alone. Out of boredom, sister, I wrote these words to you, because the same love I had with you, I still cherish today.
For packages I say, I need it, but I don’t want to bother you. I hug you all, your family up to Zefi, Miri, Ornela, Violeta. A kiss to everyone. Yours
(Shtjefni)
Gurez, 10.I.1970
9.10.1965, letter on page B.23
Kurti-Gurez-Milot post – Krujë
Katerina Mjeda – USA
Note:
From the study of the letter, it appears that on page 1. B.23 it is stated:
I’m living a parasitic life, I’m unemployed. A villager gave me a room and I lead my life there.
He has a niece – the sender is a priest
9/10/1965
Shtjefan Kurti, Gurëz-Milot Krujë
09.9/65, a letter and a package
Viktor Kurti…USA
Note:
From the study of the letter, it appears that on page 1 R.1l it is stated:
I live a private life; I live in Gurëz next to a villager, who left me an ode. There I do my work, study, sleep, learn, but I am spiritually calm, with all my poor. If necessary, sometimes I give a mass. The sender is a priest.
1/10/65
I really love Katerina!
Since she was a girl in our house, I haven’t seen you. As long as I stayed in Zagreb, you wrote and wrote to me, you and your husband felt it. When I came to America, I didn’t have the opportunity, it’s only been two days since I took your address to me, my brother, because I begged you to take it to me.
Katerina, I have never forgotten you, no matter how many times I have remembered you and how many times I try to recall your image in my mind, once very beautiful, of course it is the same now. Are you bringing me a picture of you, so I can see it before my eyes? You cheer me up and cheer me up with your letters. Filia your sister, they brought me a suit, overcoat, sweater and other clothes, she has a big ear for me. What about you, will you be able to give me some money, enough to buy a watch, because I am without it. It doesn’t matter if you take it to me because it costs me more for customs than when you bought it, but first, you had a chance. But don’t even take me, I don’t get bored. I, Katerina, live a private life, I am unemployed. A villager gave me an ode, and there I lead my life alone.
My health is good, but of course I am bored. John’s toads won’t even hire me for a coffee. Is there a greater despair than that they despise me, after what I have done for them, God forbid they repaid me twice.
Katerina, I would like to know how you are doing and how you are leading your life. Do you have any children or are you single? Are you bored with what you are doing? My aunt writes to me every now and then, she relieves my boredom with a letter.
I’m bringing you my photo, hoping that you, too, will cheer me up with yours.
I wish you good health, and all my best wishes to you.
Your aunt loves them
Shtjefni
Gurëz Milot
29.IX.1965
Arrest
The main materials benefited from the activity of the State Security were the written agency reports and operative techniques with interception. The intercepts were placed in the files of the person being followed in a single copy. It is characteristic that no material of this type was used in the investigative-judicial processes, which relied only on witnesses in the formulation of evidence. This means that the State Security never brought evidence to the courts.
When it was decided that the object under investigation should be sentenced to imprisonment, we have the beginning of the investigative-judicial process. This is the invisible thread, like a “straw thread”, in official documents and only specialists in the field can distinguish it. Thus begins the legal process. After making the decision, the Operative Worker meets with the investigator who covers the territory where the person planned to be arrested and convicted lives. The Operative Worker gives the investigator the main elements of the criminal offense, on which he must base his charge, bearing in mind that no Security operative, as well as no operational material (wiretaps) will appear in court (in very rare cases the accomplice burned, becoming a witness).
Based on this data, the investigator determines the witnesses he needs to find to support the charges. These are ordinary people, for example, who were in the stadium with the candidate for prosecution or were present when he spoke against the government. After the investigator secures the witnesses, the implementation of the Code of Criminal Procedures begins, based on the articles of the Criminal Code.
The investigator prepared the arrest, which was approved by the prosecutor. The investigator conducted the investigation and at the end, came out with an indictment, which was again approved by the prosecutor. In court, the investigator did not appear again. The prosecutor of the case, based on the indictment, compiled the claim. Memorie.al
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