(Albanian: Drejtoria e Sigurimit të Shtetit, DSSh), commonly called the Sigurimi, was the state security, intelligence and secret police service of the...

created in 1991 by the Albanian People's Assembly. It was the successor to Sigurimi, the notorious secret service agency which repressed anti-communist dissent...

Ilir Rexhep Meta (Albanian pronunciation: [iliɾ meta]; born 24 March 1969) is an Albanian politician who served as President of Albania from 2017 to 2022...

coastline ambushes involved clashes between the Albanian secret police (Sigurimi) and multiple teams of MI6 agents. In preparation for the landing of the...

ethnic territory, further fueling the tensions between the two nations. The Sigurimi, Albania's secret police, played a significant role in fomenting separatism...

were expelled from all over Albania by the Albanian People's Army and the Sigurimi led by Enver Hoxha and Kadri Hazbiu. Also, during the expulsion, a Bosniak...

ideological purity and spreading propaganda. Her relationship with the Sigurimi secret police is widely discussed. Nexhmije later claimed in her 1998 memoir...

helicopters, and four Il-14 transport planes. The Directorate of State Security (Sigurimi) was the Albanian version of the Soviet KGB responsible for state security...

developments coincided with political repression by the secret police, the Sigurimi, for the purposes of preventing a counter-revolution, which included dismissal...

politician of Communist Albania who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and Sigurimi from 1978 to 1982. Shehu was born in Mallakaster District in 1923. Although...

referred to as just "Darzhavna sigurnost" ("State Security") Albania – Sigurimi Yugoslavia – UDBA Hungary – ÁVH and Munkásőrség Romania – Securitate and...

Threat Reduction. In the early 1960s, the Albanian intelligence services (Sigurimi), allegedly under the leadership of Kadri Hazbiu, engaged in clandestine...

group. The Sigurimi detachment, headed by Xhezo Makashi, began a crackdown of the region and the Black Hand çete clashed with the Sigurimi & Albanian...

të Shtetit), commonly called the Sigurimi. Its goal was protecting Albania from dangers, but de facto the Sigurimi served to suppress political activity...

Yugoslavia. Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Military Intelligence services, the Sigurimi, played a significant role in promoting separatism in Kosovo and the idea...

Albania. It opened on 23 May 2017 in the building that served as the Sigurimi's headquarters during the communist era. The museum is "dedicated to the...

Workers' Power (1967–1973) Workers' Autonomy (1973–1979) Supported by: RAF Sigurimi (alleged) PLO (alleged) KGB (alleged) Stasi (alleged) Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya...

all key officials in the government, as well as prominent members of the Sigurimi. The Central Committee directed Party activities between Party Congresses...

Christian faith to young children. On 10 August 1949, she was arrested by the sigurimi, an Albanian secret police force, and sent to a prison in Shkodër. She...

satire, and coded messages. In 1990, to escape the Communist regime and its Sigurimi secret police, he defected to Paris. From the 1990s he was asked by both...

October 1982. He was the chief of the Directorate of State Security (the Sigurimi), Albania's secret police, and Deputy Internal Affairs Minister from 1950...

Republic of Bulgaria KGB (Committee for State Security), in the Soviet Union Sigurimi (Directorate of State Security) in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania...

legitimate retribution for executions being done by the Communist Party and Sigurimi. The Committees struggle was characterized as national - for the rights...

notorious communist secret police Sigurimi. Trebeshina was always supported by the communist secret police Sigurimi. In 1981 they attempted unsuccessfully...

resistance guerrilla unit "Komiteti i Maleve". 58 Pal Mëlyshi [sq] Agent of the Sigurimi 12 April 1950 Unknown Ujë-Lurth, Mirditë His suspicious death was considered...

bunkers. Under Hoxha, Vlorë served as an important recruiting centre for the Sigurimi; the Albanian state security, intelligence and secret police service. In...

Affairs. The latter post made him commander of the secret police, the Sigurimi. In 1954, he succeeded Hoxha as Prime Minister. From 1974 he was also the...

Minister and Minister of Interior, also head of the State Security Service Sigurimi. They first pushed towards relationship with the Soviet Union, then later...

president at the time denied any involvement in the conflict in Macedonia. Sigurimi SHIK Shërbimi Informativ Shtetëror "Albania: [1997 Edition 1]". Jane's...

Shehu Shefqet Peçi Fejzi Micoli  X Prek Cali  Ndre Zadeja  Units involved Sigurimi 1st Strike Brigade, 23rd and 24th LANÇ Brigades Free Albania National Committee...