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Maeve de Burgh is living out her old age in Wexford, Ireland. She is perhaps the only woman, still alive, who worked as an agent in the British secret service, during the time when this service trained young Albanian nationalists in exile, with the aim of sending them on a mission to Albania to overthrow the communist regime .
In her account for Ireland's most prestigious public broadcaster, RTE1, Maeve de Burgh talked about her life in Malta, where she worked as a coder for the English secret service, while her husband, Colonel Charles Davison, and his colleagues , they trained young people from the Albanian diaspora to send them on a mission to Albania.
In this interview, she speaks with a lot of respect and sympathy for these young people, talks about their high nationalistic feelings, about their intelligence and dedication in fulfilling the assigned tasks, etc. But her eyes fill with tears when she recalls a tragic night where nearly 300 of them lost their lives in a botched operation due to a leak by double agent Kim Philby.
Maeve was interviewed by this television on behalf of a very popular show in Ireland, entitled "Who Do You Think You Are?", a show that aims to reveal to the Irish public the genealogical roots of famous people. She was interviewed as the grandmother of Rosana Davison, who after winning Miss World a few years ago is now the most beautiful Irish top model.
Maeve is the mother of the very popular singer of the 80s and 90s, Chris de Burgh. She lives out her old age in this beautiful resort town in the east of Ireland. Her interview was considered an interesting revelation in terms of her life in this British secret service mission as well as the high sympathy she expressed for these young Albanians.
The Irish press paid attention for several days in a row to her statements about the efforts of the English and American services to overthrow the communist regime in Albania, as well as the human tragedy caused by the role of the double-agent Kim Philby.
The day after this program was broadcast on RTE1, which also contained her interview as Rosana Davison's grandmother, a colleague of mine, a professor of genealogy, meets me and gives me a DVD. He had recorded this show. He told me that he had put this DVD in an hour of lecture for his students to watch and that they had discussed for almost ten minutes about the history of this agent and her sympathy for Albania and Albanians. I felt good, but a bit confused. When I got home I put that DVD in and watched the show again. The next day I put it in an envelope and sent it to a TV channel in Tirana, but I didn't get a reply.
However, a few months ago I became interested again in the fate of Maeve de Burgh. I learned that she is still alive.
