Dashnor Kaloçi
Part eight
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
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
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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 KADRI HAZBIU: Comrade Enver can learn there that they are.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: But why go, we have looked at them that are why we are saying.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I know that the Soviet advisers have come since I was there as deputy minister, that is, when Mehmet Shehu was the minister of internal affairs.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: That’s right, they came even during Mehmet’s time, but only 8 people until 1954, but when you became minister, from 1954 to 1960, another 50 came.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I don’t know if Comrade Enver has come.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes, there were not only 8 people when you were there. How is it possible that you were a minister and you don’t know these things? You don’t know this, you don’t know that, the question arises, what do you know then?!
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Well then, say what you know.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, I know…
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Huh, what do you know?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I know those documents that were sent by the Ministry of the Interior to the Soviet Union.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes, these others in the Ministry of Internal Affairs have also been done.
COMRADE HEKURAN ISAI: You had alerts about the hostile groups that the Party discovered, even about Mehmet Shehu’s group, but I don’t know if you saw them or not? In addition to what Comrade Enver said, there is also Liri Gegë’s report on 24.9.1955, which said that Mehmet Shehu was Beria’s agent. This is written in the report on September 24 of that year.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: So such data…
COMRADE PALI MISKA: Yes, these are landfills.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Well, they are landfills and they can be. Yes, there may have been many such data at that time.
COMRADE ADIL ÇARÇANI: How do you say that such data could have existed?!
COMRADE RITA MARKO: Look, we are not investigators here. But the Party has data and is based on logic.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, that’s right, the Party is logical.
COMRADE RITA MARKO: You can also stop now and reflect. Liri Gega deposits there, Hulusi Spahiu writes here, the other one writes somewhere else, and didn’t you see all this?
COMRADE SIMON STEFANI: Don’t you draw conclusions from all this?
COMRADE RITA MARKO: That these are not small things!
COMRADE ADIL ÇARÇANI: Why didn’t you come and report to the Central Committee all that had come out from other sources and from the investigation?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: How do I know now, if they have been reported or not. What can I say now?
ALL FRIENDS: Ah, yes . But who should know them then, when you don’t know them?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Hello, friend Pali, they are telling you that these things have been happening for 30 years.
COMRADE LLAMBI GEGPRIFTI: Even if it’s been 300 years, what about the method and the main thing, didn’t you deal with it? It’s enough to deal with these things, because it is not important to deal with ordinary theft.
COMRADE QIRJAKO MIHALI: Even if it’s been 30 years, this is not about a spy or an ordinary agent, but about a deposition about a person like Mehmet Shehu.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: The slogan that this one, or that one, is an agent, there was.
COMRADE HEKURAN ISAI: No, no, because Liri Gega gives you even details, in her depositions.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: The slogan that this or that person is an agent of this or that person has already come out, please, oh how much we have heard and how much I have heard of this.
COMRADE PALI MISKA: Yes, this is not a slogan, Comrade Kadri, something has been deposited.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Oh, yes, I don’t even care if I have seen this deposition or not.
COMRADE ADIL CHARCANI: But why, haven’t you seen it?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Comrade Kadri, don’t burden yourself with this attitude you are taking.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Why am I burdening Comrade Enver!
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: How can you make it difficult?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: No, what am I burdening you with, I say!
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Don’t burden yourself, if we tell you, you’re showing Albanian, because we’ve only had 15 or 20 days since we messed with all the archives and learned these things, while you, you’ve had them there for 30 years and now you you tell us here that you don’t know anything. Can the Politburo, or the Central Committee, accept such an acquittal?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: How can I say it, Comrade Enver?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Say whatever you want, but the best thing is to speak openly.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, that’s how I feel about this issue.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes, we said it, but you follow him because you don’t know anything! Okay then, on to the next question, because we can’t spend days on this issue.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Okay, yes, I agree.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Why do you say you don’t know these things, you don’t know any of them?!
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I am saying that there could be something like that.
COMRADE SIMON STEFANI: If there can be, they should be said then.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: No, there may be, yes there may be many.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, there may be such things, friend Simon, there may also be chatter, there may have been slogans that this man is like this, this other one is connected to the enemy, etc., I have not conceived of them such as. Then, wait a minute, I am not even able to say now, did I report or did I not report these things to the Central Committee, because 30 years have passed since then!
COMRADE MANUSH MYFTIU: Comrade Kadri, judging for each of us, as the Minister of Internal Affairs, you must necessarily report to the first sector, those that fell into the hands of the Ministry, then, would you believe it or not? They were believed, this is a different matter, it is not in your hands, than to tell the first secretary information and he will decide; only you were obliged to tell him about the depositions of Liri Gega, about that Hulusi Spahiut, etc.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: How come you, Comrade Kadri, don’t remember all these things, and on the other hand, Teme Sejko is accused of having a Greek agent, Kosta Fili, testify that we also have a colonel with us? You remember this, and the others, which are much more dangerous, you don’t remember?!
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I remember this, Comrade Enver, why did that “colonel” tell us, we went deeper, that we had been looking for the “colonel” for a long time, since two or three years ago, probably as Security, we had information that an Albanian colonel was in the service of the Greek Discovery.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes, yes, this could also be Ramohitoja.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: He could be too.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: It could have been Hito Çako and Arif Haskoja.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, the saboteur Kosta Fili, along with all the others, as far as I remember, that the files are there, he told us by name, that this was Teme Sejko.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes, yes, the files are there. Good, beautiful, this is what you thought and you came to tell me at once.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, I remembered it, Comrade Enver, but where…?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: I don’t know where, you took this, where?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, well, I didn’t remember it, because it wasn’t just one Teme Sejko, it was a whole network.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: No, no, about Teme Sejko, remember when you told me and where you told me.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, it seems to me that in Dajt.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes, in Dajt, and on what date?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I honestly don’t remember the date when I told you.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Okay, that’s what I wanted to know too. And when was Teme Sejkoja arrested?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: In August, I think.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: In August, what year?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: In August 1960.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes, in August 1960. I mean, you remember these events, even the date.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I remember them with the dates, because we mourned and consulted with them.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Who did you consult with?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: As for Comrade Hekuran, when we went we asked our friends, who learned that he had been arrested in August.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Okay, nice, can I ask you another question now?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Order, Comrade Enver.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Did I call you to Dajt, or did you come yourself, on your own initiative?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: For this, I remember that I came to you there one more time.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Don’t think about it and guess it.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Regarding the issue of Teme Sejko, I remember that I did not come once, but several times.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Once, once you came to me in Dajt, which you also wrote in self-criticism. You don’t remember the date you came, but I asked you: did I call you or did you come to me yourself?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: To be honest, I don’t remember this, Comrade Enver.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: You don’t remember? Was there someone else with you or do you not remember that too?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: No. Yes, Mehmet Shehu may have been the traitor; you were both there when I reported you.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: You don’t remember? It wasn’t Mehmet Shehu, you say. Right, okay. This means that Mehmet Shehu knew about this matter.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: How did he not know?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: He knew that you had reported it to him.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Of course I would report to him.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Who else did you report to?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: At that time?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Of course at that time, when, at this time?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Beqir Ballukut yes.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Another one?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, I had connections on the state line with them. Now I don’t know who I told. If I said anything to my friend Rita at that time.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: No, Comrade Rita was not here at that time, it was Comrade Hysni.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: As secretary of the Central Committee, I don’t remember now, but surely I must have told someone here as well.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Surely you told him. In other words, what you are telling us, you certainly have.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: As a matter of fact, Comrade Enver, those who I had according to subordination on the state road were Beqir Balluku and Mehmet Shehu, while on the party road it was the corresponding secretary of the Central Committee, then there was you. Now, as a rule, if they were separate matters and for separate friends, I should not say anything to them without telling you first. If you ordered me for such a thing, then I would tell others?!
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: But you didn’t tell me anything about these things.
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I saw these problems and solved them.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Now the provocation that you do to me, according to whom I approved your legend of Teme Sejko with the Soviets to take them, after what date did you say this about me?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Then, in Dajt.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Nice, in Dajt, but why didn’t you do it?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: What happened at the Bucharest meeting?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Oh, what happened in Bucharest? I mean, you came and told me that we left this issue.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Did Bucharest happen before or after Dajti?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Before.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Oh, earlier.
Comrade ENVER HOXHA: I’m sorry, but when I told you: “turn off the tap”, at that time or later?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Then?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Then, they are written. Then you came and told me about it. What did you say to Mehmet Shehu?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Of course I told him.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: What about Beqir Balluk?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Of course I told this one too.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: But I am the one who approves your vile legends of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, those legends that you made up with Xhep Koll and Mihallaq Ziçishti?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: I will have told you because we had consulted before, Comrade Enver.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Who did you consult with?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: We, as the Minister of Internal Affairs, having received the opinion of these two, I have come and reported to you on this issue.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Why don’t you write in the letter that you did these things together with Mehmet Shehu and Beqir Balluk?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: Which one?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Here, this, the letter. Why don’t you write here that I have consulted with Beqir Balluk and I have come to get your approval for the legend? Why didn’t you write it?
COMRADE KADRI HAZBIU: That’s how it happened; if you want I’ll add it.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: You want to add it, but I won’t let you add it, because the letter was written freely by you, so write now what I’m taking out with difficulty, I won’t let you in any way. You don’t tell me the reason why you never talk to Beqir Balluk and Mehmet Shehu about this issue? Memorie.al
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