Betrayed

Before George Kennan's formulation (surrender-on-the-installment-plan) of containment, and WAY before the Reagan/Casey/Kirkland/John Paul II policy of active engagement of Soviet communism, there was roll-back, wherein the west would aggressively seek liberation of sovietized countries. In the forties it seemed Albania was a good spot. If it was or not we wouldn't know, because the Soviet agent Philby, stuttering through bad teeth, had the British buffaloed. His betrayals caused deaths of those seeking liberty all over the world: Russia, Ukraine, Central Europe, and our servicemen in Korea. But here Bethell concentrates on one act: Philby's actions in Albania. Paramilitary forces were to be inserted, Enver Hoxha to be deposed, our natural allies liberated. Instead, the treason of one man left the operation destroyed, the participants slaughtered and or tortured, and Albania cast into decades of marxist darkness.