Rare photo, volunteer spies with a distinctive sign

Volunteer spies with a distinctive sign

Interceptions, what Fiqrete said about Enver

The museum of BUNK'ART 2 requires a long time to be explored. Some interesting details that can bring that period of the dictatorship as a film, can escape the eye of the visitor, like this rare picture of “Sigurimi” spies.

This original photo has been discovered by the curators of the museum, with corresponding caption that says that a group of volunteer collaborators of “Sigurimi” are in this photo taken during a training from their operative agent.

The spies have a distinctive sign on a side. A total of nine people, who are between the ages of 25 to 30 years old. Three of them are women.

In the encoded popular jargon at that time spies were called “Fuksa”, the word has remained in the Albanian language dictionary to express disdain for the word spy.

How did volunteer spies serve?

One of the classic ways besides papers is the one presented in the museum as an art installation, where are two apartments, one of them had apparatus and was equipped to intercept and spy the neighbor.

In this museum there are some interceptions did to political prisoners through bugs in the walls, small appliances used for interception.

Very interesting are the results of wiretaps of 1985 when the dictator Enver Hoxha died.

There were tapped not only ordinary citizens, but also higher layers of the communist nomenclature, as well as foreign diplomats. There are many negative reviews for Enver Hoxha, while the paradox was with Fiqerete Shehu the wife of former prime minister during dictatorship, who was overheard. After the she was arrested by the dictator she still hoped that if the dictator was alive he would take care of her boys. “I hoped would live 90 years”, she said.