An excerpt from Hoxha's book
'The Superpowers':
'WEDNESDAY MARCH 30,1960
OUR SUSPICIONS ABOUT THE IMPROPER WORK OF THE SOVIET GEOLOGISTS ARE CONFIRMEDFrom the talk about oil geology, which I had with two of our oil geologists from the Ministry of Mines, my suspicions are confirmed that the groups of Soviet geologists are not in order in their work; they operate according to their own ideas, and they do not give satisfactory results. But there is no check-up from our side, either. The fields and points which they present for drilling and prospecting do not yield oil. (As Comrade Enver Hoxha writes, "These oil experts, and 'geologists' made two reports: an accurate one, with exact and positive data on discoveries of different minerals, and a false one, which said that the prospecting had allegedly yielded negative results, i.e., the minerals sought were not discovered. The first report was sent to Moscow and Leningrad through the KGB centre, which was called the Soviet Embassy in Tirana. and the second report was sent to our Ministry of Industry and Mines. This whole vile business was discovered and
proved after the Soviets cleared out of Albanian" (Enver Hoxha, The Khrushchevites (Memoirs), 2nd Eng. ed., ."8 Nentori" Publishing House, Tirana, 1984. p. 379.)) Their activities are not accidental, therefore, we cannot permit such a situation to continue any longer. I discussed this very serious problem with Comrades Spiro Koleka and Adil Çarçani. I also summoned ambassador Ivanov and told him my ideas bluntly. I instructed Spiro to present this problem openly to Kosygin when he goes to Moscow shoud exercise control over the work of the Soviet geologist. However, we, too, must step up our control on the activity of the group of Soviet geologist."
'The Khrushchevites'By Enver Hoxha
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Of related interest is
'The Soviet Space Hoax' by Lloyd Mallan, a refutation of the Russian space program by an american science writer which first appeared serially in 'Science and Mechanics' magazine in 1965.