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  Albania - Directorate of State Security
The mission of the Sigurimi and presumably its successor was to prevent revolution and to suppress opposition to the regime.
The activities of the Sigurimi were directed more toward political and ideological opposition than crimes against persons or property, unless the latter were sufficiently serious and widespread to threaten the regime.
Sigurimi personnel were generally career volunteers, recommended by loyal party members and subjected to careful political and psychological screening before they were selected to join the service.
countrystudies.us /albania/170.htm   (614 words)

  
 Albania - Security Forces
Each security or police organization--the Sigurimi, the Frontier Guards, and the People's Police--constituted a separate directorate within the ministry; each had a larger proportion of personnel who were party members than the armed forces because of the need for political reliability.
In the Sigurimi, for example, nearly all serving personnel were believed to be party members.
Opponents of the Sigurimi argued that former officers should not be rehired but replaced with new, untainted government employees.
countrystudies.us /albania/169.htm   (856 words)

  
 Streambranch Pike Attack Sigurimi Agent 011
Streambranch » Pike Attack » Sigurimi Agent 011
Sigurimi sjunker sakta med huvudet först och får genom detta en mycket hård övervridning åt sidorna vid jerkrörelserna.
Under hela hemtagningen kan man se den blinka sig fram genom vattnet som en skadad fisk.
www.streambranch.se /sigurimi-agent-p-2312.html   (105 words)

  
  ALBANIA: Most Sigurimi Files Destroyed | seeurope.net
A large number of communist-era files kept in Albania's former secret police agency Sigurimi have been destroyed.
The statement comes after the announcement of Socialists' leader Edi Rama to submit a draft-law on opening of classified files of Sigurimi.
During the latest session of parliament, Prime Minister Sali Berisha called for opening of Sigurimi files.
www.seeurope.net /?q=node/830   (179 words)

  
  Directorate of State Security
The mission of the Sigurimi and presumably its successor was to prevent revolution and to suppress opposition to the regime.
The activities of the Sigurimi were directed more toward political and ideological opposition than crimes against persons or property, unless the latter were sufficiently serious and widespread to threaten the regime.
Sigurimi personnel were generally career volunteers, recommended by loyal party members and subjected to careful political and psychological screening before they were selected to join the service.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/di/directorate_of_state_security.html   (666 words)

  
 Comparative Criminology | Europe - Albania   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Each security or police organization--the Sigurimi, the Frontier Guards, and the People's Police--constituted a separate directorate within the ministry; each had a larger proportion of personnel who were party members than the armed forces because of the need for political reliability.
He blamed many problems of the police on their former cooperation with the Sigurimi in its role of protecting the party and state against the citizens.
Sporadic strikes and rebellions in the labor camps, to which the Sigurimi often responded with military force, resulted in the death of more than 1,000 prisoners as well as the execution of many survivors after they were suppressed.
www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/europe/albania.html   (10431 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sigurimi
The Sigurimi was created on March 20, 1943.
The mission of the Sigurimi was to prevent revolution and to suppress opposition to the regime.
It was responsible for purging the party, government, military, and its own apparatus of individuals closely associated with Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, or China after Albania broke from successive alliances with each of those countries.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sigurimi   (701 words)

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