Dashnor Kaloçi
Part fifty-two
Memorie.al publishes a voluminous archival file issued by the institution of the Authority for Information of Former State Security Files, where there are hundreds of documents with the logo “Top secret” belonging to the former political prisoner, Xhavit Qesja, originally from the city of Kruja, whose family during the period of occupation of the country, 1939-1944, was closely associated with the Anti-Fascist Movement, being one of its main bases and made available all the wealth it had, as Xhavit was one of the first members of the Albanian Communist Party for the Kruja district, leading the Kruja-Ishëm partisan battalion and the 22nd Assault Brigade. Xhavit Qese’s political career after the end of the War, where he was appointed and served in senior positions in the Albanian Army, the apparatus of the Central Committee of the ALP, and several districts of the country, from where he was sent to study in the Soviet Union, where stayed until 1957, when he was announced to return to Albania urgently, after openly expressing his views in favor of the political line being pursued by the main Kremlin leader, Nikita Khrushchev, condemning the Stalin cult. Enver Hoxha’s conversation with Xhavit Qesen in his office in the Central Committee, where he sharply criticized him for the wrong views he had expressed during his studies in Moscow, urging him to reflect and make self-criticism, but Xhavit rejected the suggestion of the first secretary of the Albanian Labor Party, which caused him to no longer be allowed to go to the Soviet Union to complete his studies, but to be sent to work as deputy chairman of the Elbasan Executive Committee, from where a year later, he was expelled from the Party and exiled to Zvërnec Island, where the communist regime kept isolated some of the former senior party and state cadres whom he had condemned for their anti-party views. Xhavit Qesva’s long ordeal and persecution from 1957 to 1990, where he spent a full 32 years in prison and internment, being one of the few convicts in Burrell Prison who went on long hunger strikes in protest of the treatment and savage attitude of the communist regime of Enver Hoxha towards him. The complete form, investigative and judicial file in charge of Xhavit Qeses, which is published for the first time by Memorie.al, which contains the documents of the former State Security that reflect the prosecution and wiretapping against him, the reports of Security collaborators with pseudonyms their correspondence with the letters he sent to the highest party and state instances, as well as the highest leaders of the ALP, until 1991 when he was released from prison!
Continued from the previous issue
The secret document with the plan of agency-operative measures for the pursuit and surveillance of the internee Xhavit Qesja, drafted by the Operational Worker Arben Miter and approved by the Deputy Chairman of the Internal Affairs Branch of Durrës district
APPROVED “Secret”
Vice President of the Internal Affairs Branch Single copies
BAJRAM PELO Durrës, on 20/1/1987
MASH PLAN
OPERATIVE AGENTS IN THE DIRECTION OF THE OBJECT ANTI PARTY, XHAVIT QESJA
In the city of Shijak, the Xhavit Qesja building has been interned for 5 years, which is in active processing 2 / A, as an anti-party element. For our best control of it, the following measures will be taken:
- In collaboration with Branch 5 of the M.P. Interior as well as the T.O. in D. P. Interior Durrës, to clean the apartment of Xhavit Qesja, with T.O. stationary.
Head: P.Op. A. Miter and G. Bejko, until 15.3.1987
Controls: Vice President D. P. Interior, Bajram Pelo.
- To extract all social connections arising from the study of the file to be identified and to cooperate with the relevant districts, to see and study whether any of them is a collaborator of O.S.SH. And if possible, to activate it at Xhavit Qesja.
Head: P. Op. Arben Miter, until 30.12.1987
Controls: Vice President D. P. Interior, Bajram Pelo.
- To study and record all the family and social ties that Xhavit Qesja has in Durrës, to see if we have any collaborators from them, to activate him at Xhavit.
Head: P. Op. Arben Miter, until 30.50.1987
Controls: Chief sec. Qerim Rexha.
- In the city of Shijak we have building 2 / A that is pursued as anti-party, Ernest Jakova. By the former – B.p. “Drini”, to verify if Xhavit has friendship with him, if they approach each other, do they know each other.
Head: P. Op. Arben Miter, until 30.7.1987
Controls: Chief sec. Qerim Rexha.
- To study the existing agency as well as the excluded one in Shijak, to see if we have any of them that can be acquainted with Xhavit Qesen, on the other hand to see that since in the city of Shijak we have many families who are originally from Kruja, who of them can be tribal or social ties, as well as family acquaintances, this with the aim of studying and attracting in cooperation in his direction, a candidate for collaborator with our bodies.
Head: P.Op. Arben Miter, until 30.9.01987
Controls: Chief sec. Qerim Rexha.
- Whenever Xhaviti will be sent with permission to the city of Durrës or outside it, we will organize his observation, in order to fix the connections of operational interest that he has.
Head: P. Op. continuously
Controls: Head of section, Qerim Rexha.
The analysis of this plan will be done on 30.12.1987
OPERATIVE WORKSHOP CHIEF OF VILLAGE SECTION
ARBEN MITRE QERIM REXHA
The secret document of the Operational Workers, Arben Miter and Gëzim Bejko, approved by the Chairman of the Internal Affairs Branch of the Durrës district, Zef Loka, for the pursuit and surveillance of the internee Xhavit Qesja
APPROVED “Secret”
CHAIRMAN OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Copies No.
ZEF LOKA Durrës on 20.1.1987
PLAN-COMBINATION
FOR LISTENING WITH THE MEANS OF T.O. OF OBJECT 2 / A XHAVIT THE BAG WITH HIS MEETERS
On 20.1.1987 in the city of Shijak will come the facility 2 / A Xhavit Qesja, which is pursued as an anti-Party element, with a measure of internment for 5 years?
The apartment where the facility will be located is equipped with T.O. A.R. stationary by P.Op. of Branch V. The wiretapping of the facility will continue from the 20th, until the 26th of February, where the conversations that the Xhavit Qesja facility will have with the meeting will be fixed.
The checkpoint will be the apartment of the citizen Kadri M ……., who is a trusted person, enjoys guarantees and from where a good hearing is provided.
At the point will stand P.Op. of T.O., Gëzim Bejko and P.Op. Arben Miter, who follows the processing.
OPERATING WORKSHOP OPERATING WORKSHOP T.O.
ARBEN MITER GËZIM BEJKO
CHIEF OF SECTION FSHAT VICE PRESIDENT D.P. underwear
QERIM REXHA BAJRAM PELO
The secret document with the report-information of the Operational Worker, Gëzim Bejko, regarding the revelation of the interceptions of the Operational Technique made to the internee Xhavit Qesja, in his house in the city of Shijak
INTERNAL AFFAIRS BRANCH “Secret”
DURRËS Single specimens
Vr.3 Durrës on 26.1.1987
INFORMATION I T.O.
ON THE CONVERSATIONS DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE XHAVIT OBJECT, THE BAG OF THE VISITORS WHO WENT TO HIS APARTMENT FROM 20.1.1987 TO 26.1.87
On January 20, 1987, around 7 pm, in the apartment of the Xhavit Qesja building, there were about five people:
The object, the object’s mother, a woman (Besimi’s wife, Besimi and another man, who introduce her as “The Groom”.
People have different conversations of a family nature, they talk about children, kindergartens, educators. For the construction and demolition of old buildings in the city of Durrës.
The object after talking about the organization of primary school, gymnasium, etc., at the time when he was a student himself, that in school he learned French and Italian, etc.
In various conversations it is about a man named Drita, but who has not come to meet the object. She has two sons.
Around 19.45, the “Groom” and a woman leave. In the following, the people who come to the room talk about the time when the bus leaves, as well as arrange the sleeping facilities, as well as say who will sleep there, etc.
Then the persons leave and stay in the apartment and sleep, the object, his mother as well as the wife of the Faith.
On 21.1.1987 around 11.15, a person comes with a child. The person has a conversation with the object, expresses the topic of health, food, etc. The building talks about the organization and operation of the prison shop, etc.
“You are fine now,” Besim’s wife told the old woman.
The old woman answers: “Thank goodness I’m alive”!
The object states that he was ill in prison. A man says: “My uncle is alive”. A woman after uninteresting conversations, says: “Drita will beat me; she will make me for a lek, which I did not inform”. Following are family conversations.
A woman says to the old woman: “Thank goodness the boy came safe”. They talk about why they brought their uncle (object), various fruits, such as grapes, tangerines, oranges, as well as meat, chicken, etc.
After talking about health and medication, one woman says; Drita’s husband deals with these jobs, it is like a doctor’s job. In the following, various family conversations take place, about children, etc.
The woman leaves around 11.55, on the pretext that she will leave for work.
After other uninteresting conversations, some people leave, and the object – You do not leave your uncle alone.
Wife – No, no, we will not leave the uncle alone, we will come to the uncle. Uncle’s dog does not eat the stick.
On 22.1.1987, in the room they are arranging some books. In conversations he looks like a maniac behind the books, he will fix and organize them well.
After a woman leaves, he says: You have us here for days. The Light itself will come. She is like furious.
-No cry, no cry, I am touched more than you, but I have become strong, says the old woman. We will laugh and cry.
(After we have uninteresting conversations and some people leave, in the room the object remains the mother and the wife of the Faith. —————————– ————————————————– ————————————————– ————————————————– ————————————————– —————————————————————————————————————–
On 23.1.1987.
Besimi and some women came to visit; they talk for a long time, but without operational interest. At one point the old woman cries. A woman comforts him, saying that she is happy that Xhavit të came safe…!
There is also an old man in the apartment, the neighbor of the building. Conversations take place during operations without operational interest.
On 24.1.1987
Many people take part in the conversation. Only the women’s conversation is felt. One of the women says: “Grandpa is always respected”. In the following, a man is introduced: I work on ships, where ships are made, and this is cadre.
The object responds: “Worker, very good worker”.
After having uninteresting conversations, such as about diseases, etc. People leave. The object comes to the apartment, his mother and Besimi’s wife, who have conversations without operational interest. The object all the time speaks very little and is barely audible. Create the impression from the voice you hear, as if licking in bed.
On 28.1.1987
Many people have come to visit, they may be from Kruja. There can be about 10 people in the room, after eating and lunch, they leave.
Persons have conversations without operational interest, talk about their health, about children, as well as other conversations of a spontaneous character.
Around 10.30 am, a newly arrived man brings them greetings from a man named Jite and Kimetie. At one point, the neighbor’s brother enters, who tells him that whatever they need, they tell him without shyness.
The following are conversations about water, the foods they should eat, and the diet they should follow. They are talking about Shaqiri etc.
In the continuation, two women participate in the conversation, one even says that; krushka has brought you three kilograms of beef.
Conversations further take place without operational interest. Memorie.al
T.O. Operational Workshop
Gëzim Bejko
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