Dashnor Kaloçi
Part eight
Memorie.al publishes some archival documents extracted from the Central State Archive in Tirana (fund of the former Central Committee of the ALP), which have been unknown for 40 years and see for the first time the light of publication, where is a voluminous file with secret materials and documents belonging to the months of October 1982, where is reflected the material of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the ALP entitled “On the pronounced lack of vigilance and serious mistakes of Comrade Kadri Hazbiu at the time he was Minister of Interior “, written self-criticism of Kadri Hazbiu,” Decision of the 5th Plenum of the Central Committee of the ALP on expulsion from the Central Committee and the Party and dismissal from all state and social functions of Kadri Hazbit ”, as well as the minutes of the Plenum of the Central Committee held on 13 and 14 October 1982 in the main hall of the building of the Central Committee, where the work was discussed and analyzed and the activity of the Minister of National Defense, Kadri Hazbiu, who is accused of his “hostile activity” for the period of almost 30 years when he served as Minister of Internal Affairs. The complete file with all the documents that is published for the first time by Memorie.al, where in addition to the material “Top secret”, of the Politburo with accusations against the former Minister of Internal Affairs, Kadri Hazbiu, the minutes of Plenum, where Enver Hoxha and most members of the Politburo as: Ramiz Alia, Adil Çarçani, Foto Çami, Hekuran Isai, Manush Myftiu, Simon Stefani, Haki Toska, Pali Miska, Prokop Murra, Spiro Koleka, Rita Marko, Lenka Çuko, Muho Asllani, Llambi Gegprifti, Vangjel Çerava, and the Central Committee of the ALP, as; Nexhmije Hoxha, Gafur Çuçi, Xhelil Gjoni, Pilo Peristeri, Sofo Lazri, Piro Kondi, Petro Dode, Behar Shtylla, Shefqet Peçi, Qemal Bregasi, Dritëro Agolli, Mine Guri, Themie Thomai, Mehmet Elezi, Lumturi Rexha, Tefta Cami, , Harrilla Papajorgji, Anastas Kondo, Miti Nito, Sulejman Baholli, Halil Leli, Jashar Menzelxhiu, Enver Halili, Ali Vukatana, Tahir Minxhozi, Naunka Bozo, Luan Muhameti, Rexhep Kolli, Ndreçi Plasari, Sofie Çuadari, etc., Nezir jo have only accused former Minister Hazbiu, as a close associate of former Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu, but have also debated fiercely with him throughout the two-day plenum meeting, asking him to give explanations about the work and activity of from the day he sat in the minister’s office, starting from relations and relations with Russian advisers, the Tirana Conference in 1956, to “his cooperation with hostile groups” led by Teme Sejko, Beqir Balluku, Abdyl Këllezi dh of the “police agent” Mehmet Shehu, as well as the decisions dismissals from duties and for the expulsion from the Central Committee of Rexhep Koli, Nazar Berberi, Veli Llakaj, Ndreçi Plasari, etc.
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Minutes ‘Top secret’ of the meeting of the 5th Plenum of the Central Committee of the ALP, held on 13 and 14 October 1982
ALBANIAN LABOR PARTY
CENTRAL COMMITTEE Top secret
-General Sector-
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE 5TH PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF ALP ON OCTOBER 14 AND 14, 1982
HEKURAN ISAI COMRADE: Explain to us that you remember him.
KADRI HAZBIU: I wrote it, I did the same in order for you, comrade Hekuran, to verify and complete that it’s been 35 years, come on, remember.
FRIEND SOFIE ÇUEDARI: What about you who have been there for 30 years and have not verified them, are you waiting for them to be verified now?
KADRI HAZBIU: No, those document that are, are there, but I, as far as I remember, I told comrade Hekuran, to look at these as they result.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Is what he did right?
KADRI HAZBIU: Which one?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Is it right that a person sent by the State Security to join a gang, to gain trust, is ordered to kill the man with whom he is in enmity? Is that right?
KADRI HAZBIU: No, it is not right.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: But this (enemy) was killed by you. So this is a crime.
KADRI HAZBIU: That’s right.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Well, it is so; you are saying that it is so.
KADRI HAZBIU: I do not remember exactly how it was.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: A!
COMRADE ADIL ÇARÇANI: No, action is important. In this case the action is anti-human, it is anti-party. How did you do it and why did you not notify?
KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, now I am saying that it should be verified how this issue is. I remember one thing, but I do not know that it is 35 years since then.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Kadri, your friends say: you continued the path of Koçi Xoxa, right? This action belongs to Koçi Xoxes, right? Say it like this in Albanian. How is this job?
KADRI HAZBIU: What if it was done?!
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: What if it was done?! You know, it’s done for you, right?
KADRI HAZBIU: To be verified.
COMRADE SIMON STEFANI: Why should we verify it, here we have you, you were there at the top.
KADRI HAZBIU: I do not remember ore.
COMRADE ADIL ÇARÇANI: Yes, Kadriu said it himself.
COMRADE SIMON STEFANI: How come you do not remember these? He does not remember this, he does not remember that, but what does he remember then? As you raise this issue with Comrade Hekuran and he looks at it, what do you mean by that? We have you alive, are you explaining them to us here now?
KADRI HAZBIU: If this has been done, it is exactly like that.
COMRADE ADIL ÇARÇANI: Yes, you told him yourself.
KADRI HAZBIU: If it was done, it is illegal, in the spirit of Koçi Xoxa. I agree with you.
COMRADE SIMON STEFANI: Well.
KADRI HAZBIU: If it was done, you have the right to call it a crime, an illegal action.
COMRADE SIMON STEFANI: You have continued with the methods of Koçi Xoxa, against the line of the Party.
COMRADE ARANIT ÇELA: Until you say to look, you know.
KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, I said to watch it as an episode, as it seems that I do not remember well.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: O Kadri, here we have Rexhep Kolli.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: He was in charge of pursuing gangs.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Rexhepi was dealing with gangs, Rexhepi knows this issue.
KADRI HAZBIU: Yes, let him be here and let him say it.
COMRADE ADIL ÇARÇANI: (In a low voice). That he must also be held accountable.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Get up Rexhep and tell us.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: How is this issue?
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: Regarding the problem that is said about Koçi Xoxe, Kadri Hazbiu was one of the main chiefs under Koçi Xoxe. Vaskë Koleci, Vango Mitrojorgji, Myftar Tarja were arrested, while Kadri Hazbiu was not, he was taken under the armpit by Mehmet Shehu and soon, for a short time, he passed and became deputy minister.
Even Kadri Hazbiu, who was the head of the Army Security, knew a lot of material about the figure of the seasoned spy, Mehmet Shehu, because they were in contact with each other, with the investigator and with others in the group, against whom the Party took action, arrested them and convicted them. He also knew what Mehmet Shehu had during the development of the processes in 1945, 1946 and 1947. How did the issue come about that Mehmet Shehu helped each other again and this Mehmet Shehu?
I also think that this is where the connection between them originated. If he says that Mehmet Shehu was a wicked man, Mehmet Shehu knew yes and Mehmet Shehu knew everything about him because he said: “you were a collaborator with Koçi Xoxen and the Yugoslavs”.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Huh
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: That is why I say that he brings out this kind of tweet in “self-criticism”, in this direction.
I wanted to discuss, Comrade Enver, and I will discuss.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Good.
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: I also have an extremely great responsibility, but this one is right.
COMRADE BEHAR PILLAR: For those who were killed?
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: In the time of Koçi Xoxe many crimes were committed, but also in the time after him crimes were committed and people were killed. I remember a case where an accomplice was unjustly shot. Lilo Zeneli and Zylfi Shahini, who were to be held accountable and tried, have made such an action and have been tried.
Even this, Kadriu knows very well. Comrade Hysni called me then and rebuked me, saying: as you, Xhepi, knew the matter of this. I told him: I made a mistake in this matter and I will tell the Party. But he does not say: “these are forgotten, these”, he says.
They are not forgotten, that here is the issue for conversations, for each other side issues, here are essential issues. What position did you Kadri take? I would say you have taken a reactionary and opportunistic stance. Why did you defend all of them with Feçor Shehu.
I will also say about Feçor Shehu that he had a leading role. He, Kadriu took us and slammed us here and there and gave the reins to Feçor Shehu, with the investigator, with operational work and everything and left behind all the plots that sometimes hostile activity could be detected.
I, to be honest, here I have the discussion, Comrade Enver, I read the material of the Politburo and Kadri’s “self-criticism” and I said: intrigue, deception. This should be more than Mehmet Shehu’s collaborator.
KADRI HAZBIU: Well, yes…
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: To provide facts and materials.
I have to give an account to the Party and the plenum of the Central Committee, but since clarification was required on those issues, I also expressed my opinion.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Good.
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: I say that Kadri Hazbiu can stay like this for three days, if we leave him.
KADRI HAZBIU: No, no, do not stay, there is no need.
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: When the Tirana Conference took place in 1956, security was at stake. The Director of Security was Mihallaq Ziçishti, the Director of the Directorate of Tirana was Feçor Shehu. The security worked there, but who directed the activity of the Tirana Conference? The Yugoslavs in cooperation with the Russians, with the platform of the 20th Congress, to revise the Party and its leadership.
And when it came to judging the betrayal of Dali Ndreu and Liri Gega, the Soviet advisers were removed as advisers, they were snakes that entered and penetrated our ranks. Kadri Hazbiu was there and we discussed with friends. He said: it should not be the work of the Yugoslav Legation, of the Yugoslav Security, but of special persons of various discoveries.
KADRI HAZBIU: You know very well, comrade Rexhep, what we have done against the councilors, right?
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: You told Comrade Enver, the leadership of the Party, these things that we have listed, where did we say that it is not so?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: No, I was not told.
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: Svetozar Koçiçi was the main element, the main cadre, who was sent by Tito.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Yes.
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: That was sent by Tito for a special connection here in Tirana. He had been an Army Security Adviser, headed by Kadri Hazbiu.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: Rexhep, tell us when Svetozar Koçiçi was in the Army, before 1948?
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: Yes, before 1948.
COMRADE RAMIZ ALIA: So he was Kadri’s advisor?
KADRI HAZBIU: No, comrade Ramiz, let us verify these a bit. Here, for a minute, that’s how the sparks are thrown.
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: Rexhepi is going to finish once, because he is not finished.
KADRI HAZBIU: I do not understand, is it a discussion or is it a question now?
COMRADE ENVER HOXHA: We will give the floor to you, Kadri.
COMRADE REXHEP KOLLI: The problem was that the Soviet advisers who were in these bodies and held this position at a time that was crucial because it was the time when the 20th Congress took place and those who belonged to Khrushchev were overthrowing the Party, Kadriu being Minister of the Interior, he did not come to tell the Party, no matter how the Party would act, whether it would act then, at that time with its tactics, or not, it was another matter.
This was to say that the Soviet advisers had this attitude, and surely the Party leadership and Comrade Enver would have drawn as they had drawn conclusions. He knows this very well. We had discussions, says Kadriu. You can have a hundred thousand discussions, but on matters of principle he should come and tell the leadership of the Party. I have others, but then I say. Memorie.al
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