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===Albania===
[[Albania]] had been under Italian influence since 1923, and was occupied by the [[Italian Army]] in 1939. In 1943, a small liaison party entered Albania from northwestern Greece. SOE agents who entered Albania then or later included [[Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh|Julian Amery]], [[Anthony Quayle]], [[David Smiley]] and [[Neil McLean (politician)|Neil "Billy" McLean]]. They discovered another internecine war between the Communist partisans under [[Enver Hoxha]], and the republican [[Balli Kombëtar]]. As the latter had collaborated with the Italian occupiers, Hoxha gained Allied support.

SOE's envoy to Albania, Brigadier Edmund "Trotsky" Davies, was captured by the Germans early in 1944. Some SOE officers warned that Hoxha's aim was primacy after the war, rather than fighting Germans. They were ignored, but Albania was never a major factor in the effort against the Germans.