Tuesday, June 28, 2005

CIA director visits Albania secretly: reports

TIRANA, June 27 (Xinhuanet) -- The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Porter J. Goss had a secret visit to Albania on Friday, attending the conference of the southeastern European countries' intelligence services directors, local media reported Monday.

During his several-hours visiting in Tirana, Goss attended the opening of the conference and had meetings with the Albanian PrimeMinister Fatos Nano and the officials of the Albanian intelligenceservice. The CIA then left for Bosnia.

The official information about Goss's visiting to Albania had not been made public untill Monday.

In the meeting with Nano, Goss appreciated the splendid relations existing between the governments and intelligence services of Albania and the United States, the reports said.

The two were optimistic on future bilateral cooperation, the report said.

According to the local media's reports, the conference, which was held in Tirana from Friday to Sunday, was focused on the regional cooperation in fight against organized crimes and terrorism. Enditem

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I guess this is one of the best kept secrets.

Anonymous said...

I don't like this...why visit now?

Anonymous said...

His visit is a very welcome one. By visiting Albania he is showing the US support that Albania enjoys due to their joint hard work in the fight against terrorism (be it Serbian or whatever).

Anonymous said...

you don't think it has anything to do with the election on sunday? the fact that he visited nanos and that most albanians look at the US (and certainly the CIA) as a credible big brother would certainly help nanos in his campaign. the US and i would assume most of europe would much rather see nanos than berisha win on sunday.
if they wanted goss's visit to remain secret it would not have been difficult to do.
i say it's a political endorsement.
* (and most likely with some sort of favor expected in return).

Anonymous said...

He went to tell Albania that they need to stop funding the KLA and endorsing Osama Bin Laden.

Anonymous said...

Where is the proof? Slobo and Sadam had a contract to build a bunker, along with the Germans, French and Russians. IS that Buddy - Buddy?

Again, where is your proof?

That is certainly not al_quida type connection.