This is what the Albanian State Security was like
Former Deputy Minister of the Interior, Zylftar Ramizi, recounts the gears of the machine of terror for more than two hours
For the first time, everything about the organization, structure, purpose, number of security collaborators, the Albanian intelligence network abroad, the discovery of foreign agents in our country, and the Security Service’s duties for Internment-Expulsions
Ministry of the Interior
State Security
Directorate I - Counterintelligence
Directorate II - Counterintelligence
Directorate III - Intelligence
Branch 1 Intelligence on the activities of foreign agents
Branch 2 Intelligence on the intelligence services of foreign embassies
Branch 3 Clearance of officers of the Ministry of the Interior
Branch 4 Administration of documentation and operational materials
Branch 5 Operational techniques
Branch 6 Army security [?]
Branch 7 Intelligence on economic crimes
Branch 8 Activities of hostile elements
Secret intelligence network
Residence Agents Informants Host
1 Officer in charge of internment-expulsions
2 Officer in charge of camps and prisons
It was a hearing announced as an ordinary one, that of the hearing in the Genocide trial, against the so-called "5 heads of Internment-Expulsions", Cela, Mino, Ramizi, Myftiu and Lleshi. Yesterday they were due to give explanations about the evidence presented so far. After the first, Aranit Cela, stood up and for about 120 minutes the former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Zylftar Ramizi, gave explanations. For the first time so far, he has explained in the greatest detail everything about the Albanian State Security. Yesterday the full architecture was seen to be revealed, down to the most detailed details, of the "palace of dreams", the 50-year mire [?] of the Albanians. The head of Albanian counterintelligence, from 1 November 1982 until 7-8 July 1990, took out from the highly secret safe of his mind, in order to thoroughly unravel the hitherto undecipherable code of the game of the Security Service’s agents and collaborators. The darkest part of the past 50 years began to be illuminated yesterday, in one of the first-floor halls of the Court of First Instance in the capital.
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