“From a purely cold-blooded point of view,” Wisner wrote, “it might be better for us to concentrate all efforts to further disorganize and hamstring the tottering Albanian economy, thus leaving the Russians with the unhappy alternative of pouring in resources of their own or allowing the fate of a rotting and desperate Albania to appear before all the world as further evidence of what happens to countries and peoples within the Soviet orbit.”

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 715