Cold War: ALBANIA - American-sponsored covert operation

The first American-sponsored covert operation to topple a foreign government
during the cold war took place in Albania. During the early years of the cold war, senior American intelligence officials tried to keep pace with a perceived stronger and moreaggressive Soviet Union. Frank Wisner, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) covert operation branch—the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), advanced the notion of penetrating the Soviet-controlled east Europe in the hopes of causing deep fractures. From 1949 to 1952, Wisner’s OPC with British assistance pursued a failed policy of inserting Albanians abroad into Albania to overthrow Enver Hoxha’s repressive regime.

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