Betrayed Author:Nicholas William Bethell In 1949 a secret Anglo-American invasion of Communist Albania was undertaken to counteract Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe. It failed. Lord Bethell rightly sets the decision of first the British and then the Americans to intervene in Albania in the broadest context of the Cold War. Soviet spy Harold "Kim" Philby wa... more »s a coordinator of that mission. To this day, the CIA will not confirm that the attempted invasion took place.« less