Dashnor Kaloçi
Part twenty-eight
Memorie.al/ publishes some archival documents issued by the institution of the Authority for Information of Former State Security Files, where there is a voluminous file belonging to Tuk Jakova, who since the period of Zog Monarchy, was one of the leaders of the Communist Group of Shkodra, sentenced to political prison in the famous trial of 1938, together with Qemal Stafa and Vasil Shanton, participant in the founding meeting of the Albanian Communist Party and member of its Central Provisional Committee, since the founding meeting of November 8, 1941, political commissar of the First Assault Brigade and the First Corps of the National Liberation Army, where from the end of the War, in November 1944 until 1955, he held several senior party and state functions and duties. , as: member of the Politburo and secretary of the Central Committee of the Albanian Communist Party, full ambassador of the People’s Republic of Albania in Belgrade, President of the Trade Unions of Albania, Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the Albanian government, headed by Enver Hoxha, etc. The entire voluminous file (forms and investigative) that is published for the first time by Memorie.al., Where there are hundreds of unknown documents, in charge of the former lieutenant general Tuk Jakova (“People’s Hero”), which belong to the period 1951-1959, when he, after numerous contradictions with Enver Hoxha since the end of the war, in 1951 was expelled as a member of the Politburo and in 1955, he was expelled from the Central Committee of PPSh, being dismissed from all party and state functions, which he had held until then, was interned with his family in the district of Berat, where after working for some time as head of the Carpentry Department in that city, in 1957 was sentenced to solitary confinement in Kanina Castle, Vlora district, where he was arrested in 1958, sentenced to 20 years in prison, accused of being a “traitor and enemy of the people”, until he died in the Prison Hospital of Tirana in 1959, in mysterious circumstances! What is said in the secret documents (reports, photos, cards, forms, report-information, notes, minutes, surveillance reports, plan-measures, statements, denunciation letters, etc.) belonging to the period 1955-1959, when he was under constant surveillance and surveillance by the State Security bodies, who were the officers of the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were in charge of his surveillance, and the names and nicknames of the Security collaborators, who kept him under strict control. ?!
Continued from the previous issue
The document with the minutes of the interrogation of the defendant Bedri Spahiu, by the investigators of the State Security Directorate, Nuredin Kërxhaliu and Rexho Hyseni
In Tirana, on January 18, 1958.
I, Nuredin Kërxhaliu and Rexho Hyseni, investigators of the State Security Directorate, interrogated the defendant Bedri Spahiu, who testifies that the following:
Process – Verbal
Question: What did Tuku say about changing the composition of the Politburo?
Answer: It seems to me that Tuku posed that it was the case of Spiro Kolekë that Tuku thought, because it was not placed in the appropriate place in the Museum of the National Liberation War, that Spirua was neither in the leadership of the War nor in the leadership of the Party in that time.
Question: What other things did Tuku put up in this Plenum?
Answer: I remember that Tuk Jakova, I vaguely remember discussing the case of a girl who had lost her job and was left dead. (This can be understood as detached sentences).
Question: How and in what way did you oppose those theses of Tuk in the Plenum?
Answer: I do not remember how I concretely opposed them, but it seems to me that I threw them on the ground and joined the views of other members of the Central Committee.
Question: Apart from those mentioned above, have you discussed any other issues with Tuk Jakov?
Answer: Apart from what I said above, I have not talked anything else with Tuk.
Question: On the issue of Miladin and the primer that you talked to Tuk, did you express your opinion?
Answer: Regarding the issue of Miladin that Tuku told me and the issue of the primer, Tuku told him as findings, the conversation started with the primer and here the thoughts clashed, as it was an issue that belonged to me, after we did not agree that Tuku was not convinced that the measure taken by the Ministry, right in my view, said that I have this finding from the field, and said that I have a couple of other findings and mentioned to me what I said above.
That is, the case of Miladin that his work does not come out and the case of the Museum for Spiro Kolekë, who said that they put him there with a place that is not his place (but it is better to see my formulation, relatively fresh I gave in my report to the Politburo), and said I would talk to Comrade Enver.
I will tell you about these findings about the primer as well. Therefore, apart from the issue of the primer that belonged to me, he did not raise the other issues nor did we discuss them as findings that he had made and that he would discuss with the Secretary General…!
Question: How did you discuss the issue of the primer between you and Tuk?
Answer: Tuku said that we did not do well to unify the primer, I explained that the opposite theses that have been on this issue, some Education teachers said not to unify, that children would be forced to learn words when they have need to read a few words. The rest of the education acknowledged this difficulty, but said that this difficulty will be taken into account when the children move to the upper classes that have unique textbooks.
On both sides there have been numerous other considerations that I do not remember. Tuku was of the opinion that the opinion should be skewed, therefore the pedagogues who were for the divided primer are consulted, citing the difficulties of the children of the first grade of the North primary school.
Question: Did you personally inform the Party about the above conversation, such as the issue of Miladin, the other primer, before the plenum convened?
Answer: For the issues that Tuku told me and that we mentioned above and for any precision or inaccuracy, should be based on the report I gave to the Politburo after the April plenum, neither the issue was raised nor did it make sense and reason why to inform the Party, why what he told me were field findings, which he presented as a violation of the Party line and Party rules and so true that he told me he would talk to the Party Secretary.
Question: You have testified before that in the personal conversations you had with Tuk Jakova, where he raised the above-mentioned issues, you did not discuss further, ie, that you did not approve or disapprove of them, while in the April Plenum of the Committee Central, you say that you have opposed the views of Tuk Jakova. Tell us about the evolution of your views on the changes you made to the Plenum?
Answer: For greater accuracy of my reaction or not in the conversation that Tuku made to me about those 3-4 issues, my report should also be seen in the Bureau. It should be borne in mind that the issues that he told me are issues of ascertainment as I said above and have nothing to do with different views of the Party line, and those issues that I raise in the Plenum, as he raised them (for the issues that I raised more above) were wrong, why it left not from reality, and the view I gave in my discussion.
After reading the process, my statements are spelled correctly, I sign it.
Defendant Investigators
Bedri Spahiu Nuredin Kërxhaliu, Rexho Hyseni
The document with the minutes of the interrogation of the defendant Bedri Spahiu, by the investigators of the State Security Directorate, Nuredin Kërxhaliu and Rexho Hyseni
Process – Verbal
In Tirana, on January 14, 1958.
In the investigators of the State Security Directorate, Rexho Hyseni and Nuredin Kërxhaliu, we interrogated the defendant Bedri Spahiu, who testified:
The question started at 10.00
The question ended at 14.00
Question: When did you officially inform the Central Committee about the talks you had with Tuk Jakova, about the issues that he would raise in the April Plenum?
Answer: As I have said in other processes, Tuk’s conversations with me have not been a separate conversation, as stated in the question, but a conversation about findings that is always made between all leaders and officials who have control functions together, so it was not necessary for me to notify the Central Committee, as long as I was myself in the Central Committee, where Tuku raised his case and where my discussion was interrupted and I was left without discussing them, as were other members of the Central Committee.
Question: In your previous depositions, you have deposited that you have rejected the issues raised by Tuku. How did you dismiss them, until you informed the Central Committee?
Answer: As I said, I rejected in the June plenum, like all other members of the Central Committee, the issues raised by Tuku at the April meeting.
Question: You have testified that Tuku had these findings from the field. Where did Tuku get these findings from?
Answer: Those 3-4 issues that Tuku told me, had the character of a statement, but where they were and how they were, I do not know, I do not remember, for precision, to see the report I gave.
Question: Tell us, that during your stay in Elbasan, you came to Tirana?
Answer: I did not come to Tirana during my stay in Elbasan.
Question: It is universally known that during your stay in Elbasan, you came to Tirana. Why do not you tell the truth?!
Answer: As I said above, I have never been to Tirana.
Question: Were you in Tirana in April 1956?
Answer: I was not in Tirana, not even in April 1956.
Question: Have you ever been to the house of Hulusi Spahiu’s brother?
Answer: I was not in Tirana, so I was not even in his house.
Question: When did you get the usual permit and where did you spend it?
Answer: I did not get the usual permission.
Question: What about extraordinary permission, did you get it?
Answer: I did not even get the same permission.
Question: Have you ever had a child ill and where did you treat them?
Answer: In Elbasan all my children are sick and I treated them there.
Question: You have testified that apart from Tuk Jakova and Frano Jakova, no one else came to you in Elbasan. Do you remember that Marie Jakova came to your house?
Answer: In my house, as I stated, no one came except Tuk Jakova and Frano Jakova, Frano came with his family and small children.
Question: Did not only Mary come?
Answer: No, Mary just did not come.
Question: The investigation has data that you came to Tirana, why are you hiding it?
Answer: As I said above, it is not true that I came to Tirana.
Question: During your time in Elbasan, you were known from the city to your house and you went to their houses?
Answer: During my stay in Elbasan, no one came to me in Elbasan and I did not even go to their houses.
Question: The investigator has data that during your stay in Elbasan, Dhora Leka came to your house?
Answer: It is not true that Dhora Leka came to my house.
Question: Have you ever met Dhora Lekë, after your expulsion from the party?
Answer: I did not meet with Dhora Lekë after my expulsion from the party.
Question: During the period, from the April Plenum to the June Plenum, did you meet Dhora Lekë?
Answer: I do not account for the period I was a member of the Central Committee. If you are looking for an account for that period, then I can answer you.
Question: The investigator demands accountability from you, regardless of what positions you held in different periods in the state and in the party, so tell me, did you meet from the April Plenum to the June Plenum?
Answer: If you consider it appropriate to ask the former member of the Central Committee and about his meetings with people even during the period when he was a member of the Central Committee, I tell you to ask my secretary in the Ministry, who held note the names of the people who came to the meeting and the Bloc guard who was in charge of guaranteeing and securing the leadership.
Question: We do not care what you were; to us you are a simple detainee, like all other detainees, so answer the question directly to you?
Answer: I answer the questions that are asked to me directly and exactly as it is pointed out to me, as it should be and as it is in the interest of law.
Question: Tell us then; did you meet Dhora Lekë, during the period of April and June Plenums?
Answer: For me there is no period of time between the April and June Plenum, why there has been no change in my position as a member of the Central Committee and as a minister, so in that period of time I have met with all of Albania and with whom I met then, you can turn to those I told you.
Question: What about April and June, is there time for you?
Answer: In changing my position, there is no time between June and April.
Question: Regardless of whether or not your position changes, is there a time between April and June?
Answer: For me, this question does not make sense, so I do not want to answer it.
Question: This question makes sense for the investigator, so you need to answer it.
Answer: It does not make sense to me and I do not care if it makes sense to investigate and I can only answer things that make sense.
Question: I mean, you do not answer questions that do not make sense and interest to you?
Answer: I do not answer questions that have no meaning in themselves, in the views of the investigation and this process.
Questions: These questions are of interest to the investigative bodies and we do not ask you how you value them. /Memorie.al
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