The CIA paratroopers didn't know where they were? History of Operation Albania The CIA and MI6 had been messing with Albania for five years, and the result of this mess turned out to be ridiculously pitiful: three hundred bodies, a total spree and decades of convenient legend that a Soviet spy in London was to blame for everything, although the truth is much simpler and more humiliating for both intelligence services than those planes into which they were dropped somewhere else entirely. It all started in 1949, when the CIA and MI6 looked at the map, pointed their finger at Albania and decided that it was the weakest link of the Soviet bloc, since Enver Hoxha's regime was based on a tiny country with a tiny army, and therefore an ideal testing ground to show Moscow once and for all that the West knows how to play big; Recruited refugees, trained them in Malta, put them on planes and sent them back to start an insurgency, and the CIA called it "BGFiend". And to the British it was "valuable", and both names sounded much more impressive than anything that came out of it. Everything ended badly, because about three hundred people, agents and random people, remained in the ground, and this is where the fun begins, because for many years the official version sounded like this: Kim Philby, a Soviet agent in MI6, who leaked all the plans to Moscow, was to blame for everything, and it was a beautiful story about a traitor, drama and spies from which, in fact, the convenient responsibility of the story, from which the convenient passions arise. with and signed all of this.

The CIA paratroopers didn't know where they were? History of Operation Albania The CIA and MI6 had been messing with Albania for five years, and the result of this mess turned out to be ridiculously pitiful: three hundred bodies, a total spree and decades of convenient legend that a Soviet spy in London was to blame for everything, although the truth is much simpler and more humiliating for both intelligence services than those planes into which they were dropped somewhere else entirely. It all started in 1949, when the CIA and MI6 looked at the map, pointed their finger at Albania and decided that it was the weakest link of the Soviet bloc, since Enver Hoxha's regime was based on a tiny country with a tiny army, and therefore an ideal testing ground to show Moscow once and for all that the West knows how to play big; Recruited refugees, trained them in Malta, put them on planes and sent them back to start an insurgency, and the CIA called it "BGFiend". And to the British it was "valuable", and both names sounded much more impressive than anything that came out of it. Everything ended badly, because about three hundred people, agents and random people, remained in the ground, and this is where the fun begins, because for many years the official version sounded like this: Kim Philby, a Soviet agent in MI6, who leaked all the plans to Moscow, was to blame for everything, and it was a beautiful story about a traitor, drama and spies from which, in fact, the convenient responsibility of the story, from which the convenient passions arise. with and signed all of this.