When the KGB closed down its training school in Vilnius in 1960, many top secret publications from the library stacks were incinerated. The KGB "book burning" committee typically consisted of three officers, including the officer in charge of the special section of the library that housed top secret publications. The "book burning" was authorized by Article 90 of the executive order of the Chairman of the KGB No. 00705 from October 31, 1954.
Based on my research of the Lithuanian KGB documents at the Hoover Institution, I am now able to reconstruct the list of the titles of the destroyed publications.
In the list below, I have translated the titles from Russian into English. For many publications on the list, this is their first public mention. Prior to this post, there was no public record that they ever existed.
1. Nikitinsky and Safonov. Collection of
Documents on German Espionage in Tsarist Russia.
2. Nikitinsky. Collection
of Documents on the History of Russian Counterintelligence.
3. Svatikov. The Foreign
Agent Networks of the Department of Police.
4. The Diagram of the
Anti-Soviet and Nationalist Political Parties Active in Lithuania until 1940.
5. Toropov. Methodology
of Seminar and Practical Assignments for the Special Discipline No. 1.
6. Bokov. A
Methodological Report on the topic "Methodology of Administrating the
Written Papers of Students on the Assignments of Special Disciplines."
7. Nadiradze. Report on
the topic "On Some Questions on the Methodology of Conducting
Consultations."
8. Safiullin. Report on
the topic "Methodology of Administrating Practical Assignments on the
Spoken Analysis of Operational Tasks."
9. Vorozheikin. Report on
the topic "On the Extracurricular Activities with Students of Special
Disciplines."
10. Zakharov. Overview of
the Case of American Agents-Parachuters Osmanov and Sarantsev.
11. Grishaev et al.
Training Manual on the topic "Interrogation of Witnesses."
12. Lisov. Lecture on the
topic "Content and Structure of the Course on the Fundamental Principles
of the Counterintelligence Activities of State Security."
13. Chistov. Lecture on
the topic "Forms and Methods of Subversive Activities against the USSR by
the Intelligence Agencies of Bourgeois States and Other Enemies of the Soviet
State."
14. Myzin. Lecture on the
topic "Forms and Methods of Subversive Activities against the USSR by the
Intelligence Agencies of Bourgeois States and Other Enemies of the Soviet
State."
15. Aleksandrov. Training
Manual on the topic "Running Agents and Their Training."
16. Neboliubov. Lecture
on the topic "Running Agents and Their Training."
17. Sorokin. Training
Manual on the topic "Methods of External Surveillance."
18. Mikhailov. Lecture on
the topic "Perlustration (PK)."
19. Smoliakov et al.
Training Manual on the topic "Perlustration (PK)."
20. Sholokov. Overview on
the topic "Methods of Contact with the Agents of State Security in the
Rural Areas."
21. Kanishchev et al.
Training Manual on the topic "Radio Counterintelligence Activities of
State Security."
22. Tankaev. Lecture on
the topic "Radio Counterintelligence Service."
23. Koval. Lecture on the
topic "Operational Records."
24. Gribanov. Transcript
of Lecture on the topic "Agent-Based Combination and Its Significance in
the Counterintelligence Activities of State Security."
Note: General Oleg Gribanov was
the head of the KGB Second Chief Directorate from 1956 to 1964. This is the first public
mention of this lecture. For more on Gribanov, see Filip Kovacevic, "'An Ominous Talent': Oleg Gribanov and KGB Counterintelligence" (2022).
25. Training Manual on
the topic "Providing Agents for Operational Cultivation."
26. Vasilchenko. Lecture
on the topic "Operational Documentation in the Process of Cultivation.
Finding and Collecting the Evidence."
27. Vasilchenko. Example
of the Operational Documentation of the Criminal Activities of the Suspects at
the End of Cultivation.
28. Vasilchenko. Lecture
on the topic "The End of Cultivation."
29. Yermakov. Lecture on
the topic "Secret Records Keeping and Operational Accounting in the Work
of State Security."
30. Blokhin. Overview of
the Operation SLAVES OF ZION.
31. Blokhin. Information
Summary of the Overview of the Operation SLAVES OF ZION.
32. Shestoboev.
Collection of Examples for Spotting, External Surveillance, Perlustration, and
Running Numbered Measures.
33. Safiullin. Collection
of Examples on the topic "Agent-Based Combination and Cover Stories."
34. The Program for the
Studies of Soviet Criminology.
35. Vasilchenko.
Operational Assignment on the topic "Record Keeping for Checking and
Studying a Candidate for Recruitment."
36. Vasilchenko. Solution
for Operational Assignment on the topic "Record Keeping for Checking and
Studying a Candidate for Recruitment."
37. Safiullin. Collection
of Examples on the topic "Recruiting Agents."
38. Neboliubov.
Assignment on the topic "Writing the Report and the Plan for Agent
Recruitment."
39. Neboliubov. Solution
for Assignment on the topic "Writing the Report and the Plan for Agent
Recruitment."
40. Igumnov. Assignment
on the topic "Selection of a Candidate for Recruitment. Drafting the
Report and the Plan of Recruitment."
41. Igumnov. Solution for
Assignment on the topic "Selection of a Candidate for Recruitment.
Drafting the Report and the Plan of Recruitment."
42. Neboliubov.
Collection of Examples and Plans for Agent Entry into Cultivation [разработка].
43. Bokov. Assignment on
the topic "Selection of a Candidate for Recruitment. Drafting the Report
and the Plan of Recruitment."
44. Bokov. Solution for
Assignment on the topic "Selection of a Candidate for Recruitment.
Drafting the Report and the Plan of Recruitment."
45. Likhachev. Assignment
No. 2 on the topic "Agent Recruitment."
46. Likhachev. Solution
for Assignment No. 2 on the topic "Agent Recruitment."
47. Griaznov. Assignment
on the topic "Agent Recruitment."
48. Griaznov. Solution
for Assignment on the topic "Agent Recruitment."
49. Safiullin. Assignment
on the topic "Drafting the Report and the Plan of Agent Recruitment."
50. Safiullin. Solution
for Assignment on the topic "Drafting the Report and the Plan of Agent
Recruitment."
51. Bodrov. Assignment on
the topic "Analysis of Agent Reports."
52. Bodrov. Solution for
Assignment on the topic "Analysis of Agent Reports."
53. Kanishchev.
Collection of Basic Operational Document Forms for the Section "Agents of
State Security."
54. Starostin. Assignment
on the topic "Agent Recruitment."
55. Starostin. Solution
for Assignment on the topic "Agent Recruitment."
56. Bodrov. Assignment on
the topic "Drafting the Plan for Agent Entry into Cultivation."
57. Bodrov. Solution for
Assignment on the topic "Drafting the Plan for Agent Entry into
Cultivation."
58. Griaznov. Assignment
on the topic "Planning Agent-Operational Measures for Cultivation."
59. Griaznov. A Model
Solution for Assignment on the topic "Planning Agent-Operational Measures
for Cultivation."
60. Marakushev.
Collection of Assignments on Agent Entry into Cultivation.
61. Bodrov. Assignment on
the topic "Agent Entry into Cultivation."
62. Bodrov. Solution for
Assignment on the topic "Agent Entry into Cultivation."
63. Ovcharenko.
Assignment on the topic "Agent Entry into Cultivation."
64. Ovcharenko. Solution
for Assignment on the topic "Agent Entry into Cultivation."
65. Marakushev. Solution
for Assignment on the topic "Agent Entry into Cultivation."
66. Bodrov. Assignment on
the topic "Agent Tasking."
67. Bodrov. Solution for
Assignment on the topic "Agent Tasking."
68. Bodrov. Assignment on
the topic "Agent Tasking."
69. Neboliubov.
Assignment on the topic "Agent Tasking in Writing."
70. Neboliubov. Solution
for Assignment on the topic "Agent Tasking in Writing."
71. Vasilchenko.
Collection of Examples of Plans of Agent-Operational Measures for Cultivation
(for practical exercises).
72. Tebenkov. Assignment
on the topic "Planning Agent-Operational Measures for Cultivation."
73. Tebenkov. Solution
for Assignment on the topic "Planning Agent-Operational Measures for
Cultivation."
74. Griaznov. Collection
of Document Forms for Operational Accounting and Informing the Party
Leadership.
75. Collection of
Assignments on the topic "Drafting Emergency Report."
76. Solutions to
Assignments on the topic "Drafting Emergency Report."
77. Klochko et al.
Collection of Assignments on the topic "Analysis of Agent Reports."
78. Klochko et al.
Solutions to Assignments on the topic "Analysis of Agent Reports."
79. Bodrov and Lebedev.
Assignment on the topic "Agent Exit from Cultivation."
80. Vasilchenko and
Pushkarev. Solution to Assignment on the topic "Agent Exit from
Cultivation."
81. Sherstoboev.
Collection of Document Forms for Operational Accounting and Information for the
Party Leadership.
82. Bodrov. Assignment on
the topic "Drafting the Plan of Agent-Operational Measures for
Cultivation."
83. Bodrov. Solution for
Assignment on the topic "Drafting the Plan of Agent-Operational Measures
for Cultivation."
84. Sivakov. Assignment
on the topic "Interception of Penetration Channels of Agents of Foreign
Intelligence Services into the Territory of USSR and Infiltration of KGB Agents
into the Intelligence Centers of Imperialist States." (Based on Operation
LINK)
85. Sivakov. Solution for
Assignment on the topic "Interception of Penetration Channels of Agents of
Foreign Intelligence Services into the Territory of USSR and Infiltration of
KGB Agents into the Intelligence Centers of Imperialist States." (Based on
Operation LINK)
86. Khodin. Assignment on
the topic "Interception of Channels of Communication between Foreign
Intelligence Service and Its Agents in the USSR."
87. Khodin. Solution for
Assignment on the topic "Interception of Channels of Communication between
Foreign Intelligence Service and Its Agents in the USSR."
88. Odintsov. Assignment
on the topic "Dangling Agents of State Security to the Representative of a
Foreign Anti-Soviet Organization."
89. Odintsov. Solution
for Assignment on the topic "Dangling Agents of State Security to the
Representative of a Foreign Anti-Soviet Organization."
90. Fotin. Document Form
of Agent's Personal File.
91. Neboliubov. Lecture
on the topic "Subversive Activities of American Intelligence."
92. Vasilchenko. Lecture
on the topic "Combat of State Security against Subversive Activities of
British Intelligence."
93. Miakotnykh. Teaching
Materials on the topic "Subversive Activities of British Intelligence and
Combat against it by State Security."
94. Pushkarev. Lecture on
the topic "Subversive Activities of French Intelligence."
95. Pushkarev. Lecture on
the topic "Combat of State Security against Subversive Activities of
Agents of Bourgeois States among Orthodox Church priests and clergy."
96. Dubas. Teaching
Materials on the topic "Finnish Intelligence."
97. Davidian. Teaching
Materials on the topic "Subversive Activities of Iranian Intelligence
against the USSR and Combat against It by State Security."
98. Davidian. Teaching
Materials on the topic "Subversive Activities of Turkish Intelligence
against the USSR and Combat against It by State Security."
99. Kniazev. Teaching
Materials on the topic "Japanese Intelligence."
100. Pushkarev. Lecture
on the topic "Combat of State Security against Subversive Activities of
Foreign Anti-Soviet Centers and Their Agents on the Territory of USSR."
101. Vasilchenko. Lecture
on the topic "Combat of State Security against Subversive Activities of
Intelligence Services of Bourgeois States. Offensive Tactics of KGB in Combat
against Bourgeois Intelligence Services."
102. Guliaev. Overview of
"The Search for and Capture of American Spy Novinsky."
103. Tatarinov &
Pushkarev. Overview of "The Search for & Capture of American Agents,
Representatives of Foreign Nationalist Organization 'Hawks of Dvina' [Hawks of
the River Daugava Daugavas Vanagi]
104. Tatarinov &
Pushkarev. Information Summary of Overview of "The Search for &
Capture of American Agents, Representatives of Foreign Nationalist Organization
'Hawks of Dvina' [Hawks of the River Daugava - Daugavas Vanagi]."
105. Mamaev. Teaching
Handbook on the topic "Anti-Soviet Activities of Jewish Nationalists and
Combat against Them by State Security."
106. Safiullin. Lecture
on the topic "Combat of State Security against Subversive Activities of
Bourgeois Nationalists."
107. Boichenko. Teaching
Materials on the topic "Belarus Bourgeois Nationalists."
108. Polubinsky. Overview
of Operation INITIATIVE.
109. Khamaziuk and
Kasatkin. Overview of Operation INTERCEPT.
110. Guliaev. Overview of
the Search Case for Agent of West German Intelligence Postnikov.
111. Khodin. Overview of
the Case DWARF.
112. Vasilchenko.
Overview of Agent-Based Combination for Infiltrating Intelligence Services of
the Adversary.
113. Shuliak. Teaching
Materials on the topic "Combat of State Security against Agents of the
Vatican."
114. Lutov. Teaching
Handbook on the topic "Combat of State Security against Subversive
Activities of Agents of Bourgeois States among Orthodox Church priests and
clergy."
115. Collection of
Overviews on the Search for State Criminals.
116. Solovev. Lecture on
the topic "The Search for State Criminals."
117. Terekhov. Lecture on
the topic "The Search for State Criminals."
118. Pushkarev. Lecture
on the topic "Combat of State Security against Subversive Activities of
Agents of Intelligence Services of Bourgeois States Among the Sect
Members."
119. Teaching Handbook on
the topic "The Search for Authors and Distributors of Anti-Soviet
Anonymous Documents."
120. Izmailov. Collection
of Examples on the topic "The Search for Authors and Distributors of
Anti-Soviet Anonymous Documents."
121. Evteev. Overview of Operation CLOSED CIRCUIT.
122. Evteev. Analysis of the Overview of Operation CLOSED CIRCUIT.
123. Kazantsev. Lecture on the topic "Organization of Counterintelligence Work on Defense and Other Facilities of Special Importance."
124. Bushuev. Lecture on the topic "Organization of the Search for Enemy Agents Entering the Territory of the USSR from the Air, the Sea, and the Land."
125. Pushkarev. Lecture on the topic "Organization of the Search for Enemy Agents Entering the Territory of the USSR from the Air, the Sea, and the Land."
126. Vedernikov. Lecture on the topic "Organization of Counterintelligence Work on the Rail and Water Transport."
127. Butorov et al. Teaching Materials on the topic "Organization of Counterintelligence Work on the Rail and Water Transport."
128. Ostriakov. Lecture on the topic "Organization of Counterintelligence Work of the Special Departments in the Soviet Army and Fleet."
129. Mironov. Lecture on the topic "Organization of the Leadership of the Special Departments of State Security."
130. Kisminas. Lecture on the topic "Interrogation of the Suspect."
131. Borisenko. Overview of the Search Operation AESCULAPIUS.
132. Borisenko. Analysis of the Overview of the Search Operation AESCULAPIUS.
133. Kalistratov. Overview of the Search Operation TROTTER.
134. Kalistratov. Analysis of the Overview of the Search Operation TROTTER.
135. Materials on Obtaining Permission to Do Secret Work.
136. Solution Regarding the Materials on Obtaining Permission to Do Secret Work.
137. Kisminas. Lecture on the topic "Termination of Preliminary Investigation."
138. Verdiev. Teaching Materials on the topic "Termination of Preliminary Investigation."
139. Teaching-Investigation Case Regarding the Charges Against I. P. Reshetnikov.
140. Collection of Documents on the History of VChK-OGPU (1917-1924).
141. Skitov. Overview - Investigation of Sabotage (based on the Investigation Case of Diachuk and Zaitsev).
142. Tikhonov. Lecture on the topic "Investigation of Espionage Cases."
143. Marakushev. Lecture on the topic "Investigation of Wrecking Cases."
144. Kariabkin. Lecture on the topic "Investigation of Group Cases."
145. Beliansky. Lecture on the topic "Investigation of Sabotage Cases."
146. Petrov. Collection of Assignments-Examples of Analysis of Indictments (for oral examinations).
147. Marakushev. Overview of "Documentation of Criminal Activities of the Anti-Soviet Element in the Process of His Cultivation and During the Investigation of Emergency Situations."
148. Melnikov. Overview of the Investigation Case of the Agent of American Intelligence Asadzaki.
149. Maklakov. Collection of the Forms for Investigation Documentation.
150. Kovalenko. Assignment on the topic "Investigation of Sabotage Cases."
151. Kovalenko. Solution for the Assignment on the topic "Investigation of Sabotage Cases."
152. Album "Subversive Activities of Intelligence Services of Capitalist States against the Soviet Union and Some Measures of Soviet State Security to Stop Them."
153. Vasilega. Overview of the Materials on the Eliminated Bandit Groups of the Lithuanian Nationalist Underground.
154. Sample Plans of Courses for the Second-Year Students on the First and Second Special Discipline.
155. Petrov. Assignment on the Search Operation for the Agent of American Intelligence K. P. Dirzhis (for oral examinations).
156. Photographs of the Hidеouts оf the Belarus Anti-Soviet Nationalist Underground (one album, 22 photographs).
157. Senichev. Overview of the Cultivation Operation POISONOUS.
158. Photo Album of the Bunkers/Hideouts of the Lithuanian Nationalist Underground.
159. Griaznov. Methodological Report on the topic "On Measures for Eliciting Collegial Discussions During Seminars on Chekist Disciplines."
160. Azarov. Assignment on the topic "Seizure of the Channels of Communication of the Agents of Intelligence Services of Bourgeois States.
161. Fedotov. Lecture on the topic "Combat of State Security Against the Subversive Activities of Foreign Intelligence Services Against the USSR."
162. Pushkarev. Lecture on the topic "Obtaining and Using Safe Houses in Practical Work with Agents."
163. Pochkai. Teaching Handbook on the topic "Combat of State Security Against the Subversive Activities of the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Anti-Soviet Nationalist Underground."
164. Kazakov. Lecture on the topic "Combat of State Security Against the Subversive Activities of the Agents of the German Fascist Intelligence Service and the Intelligence Services of West Germany."
165. Diagram on the topic "Main Intelligence and Counterintelligence Agencies of Great Britain."
166. Safiullin. Methodological Report on the topic "Concluding Remarks of Instructor at the End of Training Seminars."
167. Zavyrylin. Lecture on the topic "Moral Qualities of the Soviet Intelligence Officer."
168. Diagram on the topic "Foreign Centers of Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Bourgeois Nationalists."
169. Bulgakov. Teaching Materials on the topic "Documentаtion Equipment."
170. Milkamanovich. Transcript of Lecture on the topic "Preparation and Management of Seminars and Practical Exercises in the KGB."
171. Beliaev. Methodological Instructions on the question of organizing a seminar for operational officers on the topic "Recruitment of Agents."
This list will be periodically
updated as I add more titles from the KGB files.
