Intelligence service building to turn into museum

TIRANA, July 23 – A Tirana downtown facility which has been serving as an intelligence service base since the notorious Sigurimi service during communist regime will be transformed into a museum featuring authentic and replica materials. A government decision this week stripped the intelligence service of its downtown facility known as Gjethi (Leaf), placing it under the administration of the Culture Ministry.
A former building of the Sigurimi secret police which also served as a prison for the politically persecuted has also been turned into a museum in the northern Albanian city of Shkodra. A 50 metre concrete entrance gallery leading to the former prison facilities where 40 cells operated has already been rehabilitated. The museum’s outdoor facilities including the airing yard have been reconstructed and personal items of political prisoners collected. Some audio effects have also been employed.