蜜芽传媒

When the American CIA and the British MI6 launched a joint operation in the early 1950s to overthrow Enver Hoxha's Communist regime in Albania, it ended in disaster. Over the course of four years they were outsmarted and outmanoeuvred by the Sigurimi, the Albanian Secret service, and 300 of their agents ended up dead. For many years that failure has been blamed on Kim Philby, the British secret service agent that was spying for the Soviets. But the British historian Steve Long has found new evidence that - as he tells Dan Damon - puts that claim into doubt.

(Photo: An image on display at a museum in Tirana shows a prisoner of Albania's Communist regime being led to his death. Credit: Albana Kasapi, 蜜芽传媒)