Operation Valuable

Operation Valuable
	Part of the Cold War
	; Top left: American Forces in Munich Germany, Recruiting Paramilitary Soldiers; Top right: U.S. Colonel F. H. Dunn inspecting the anti-communist "Kompania 4000" during training at Hohenbrunn in Bavaria in November 1950.; Bottom left: The Sigurimi with a captured CIA agent.; Bottom right: Tito gives green light to U.S General John C. H. Lee to take down fellow communist ruler Enver Hoxha.
Date	1949–1956; Operation Valuable: ; 1949–1954; (5 years); Operation BG/Fiend:; October 1950–May 1956
Location	Albania
Result	Communist Albanian victory Western allied forces fail to overthrow Hoxha's regime;
Belligerents
Hoxha's regime:; Communist Albania	Western Bloc:; United States; United Kingdom; NATO Italy; West Germany; Greece; Turkey ; Yugoslavia Separatists:; KEVA
Commanders and leaders
Enver Hoxha; Mehmet Shehu; Kadri Hazbiu	Harry S Truman; Dean Acheson; Frank Wisner; Franklin Lindsay; James G. McCargar; Roman Rudkowski (Ex-Colonel of the Polish Air Force); Clement Attlee; David Smiley; Julian Amery; Peter Kemp; Alexandros Papagos; Panteleimon Kotokos; Josip Broz Tito; Vlado Popović; Konrad Adenauer
Units involved
Albanian People's Army Sigurimi;	United States Army CIA Kompania 4000; ; O.P.C; British Army MI6; Italian Navy UDBA
Strength
unknown	Initial invasion:; / 500 Agents; / 2,000 paramilitary soldiers; 5 submarines; 180 C-47 aircraft; 80 landing craft assault boats; 6 landing craft utility; 7,500 commandos
Casualties and losses
unknown	1949–1954; / 300 Anglo-Americans killed; 961 Western Allied forces killed; 33 Yugoslav agents of the UDBA were captured or executed; 60 Western Agents were killed
	400 civilians executed

The Anglo-American intervention in Communist Albania, codenamed Operation Valuable, was a significant Cold War military conflict conducted by the United Kingdom and the United States, in collaboration with Western allies. This covert operation aimed to overthrow the government led by Enver Hoxha. The intervention sought to counter Communist influence and reinstate a leadership aligned with the Western powers. The operation involved strategic military actions, incorporating air, naval, and ground assets in pursuit of its objectives.

MI6 and the CIA launched a joint subversive operation, using Albanian expatriates as agents. Other anti-communist Albanians and many nationalists worked as agents for Greek and Italian intelligence services, some supported by the Anglo-American secret services. Many of the agents were caught, put on trial, and either shot or condemned to long prison terms at penal labour.

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