Blog Series: Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt
Tale No. 1: A KGB Officer Under Journalistic Cover Tasked to Contact PRETTY WOMAN in Italy
The original document was scanned and uploaded by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania on July 24, 2020. It can be accessed here.
Translation below by Filip Kovacevic, PhD
Secret
Doc. No. 1
Approved
Chairman of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSR
Major General Eismuntas, E. A. [signed]
16 June 1989
The Assignment
for the operative traveling to Italy
as a member of the delegation of the Committee of Youth Organizations (KMO) of the Lithuanian SSR
The delegation of the Committee of Youth Organizations (KMO) of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) is traveling to Italy in June of this year on the invitation of the youth organization of the Italian Christian-Democratic Party from the town of Treviso (Italy). The operative of the 1st Section of the 1st Department of the KGB of Lithuanian SSR, Captain Vladas Vladovich Bayorinas, is included in the delegation under the cover of a journalist for the Vecherniye Novosti [Evening News] newspaper. During its time in Italy, from June 21 to June 28, the delegation will discuss the perspectives of collaboration between the KMO and the youth organization of Christian-Democrats.
The operative, who is traveling as a member of the delegation, has received the following tasks:
1. Organize and conduct a meeting with an object of interest [DPI No. 2334] codenamed PRETTY WOMAN. During the conversation with PRETTY WOMAN obtain information about her contacts in Italy and her plans for the future. Also, incline her to publish objective information about political events in the republic [Lithuania] in Italian newspapers. Influence PRETTY WOMAN in the direction favorable to us.
2. During the conversations with the leaders of the Italian Christian-Democrat youth organization, obtain information on the following questions of interest to [our] political intelligence:
- the possible [personnel] changes in the Italian Christian-Democratic Party
- the preparations of Italian political parties for the elections to the European Parliament (about the level of representation in the European Parliament)
- the assessment by the leaders of the Italian Christian-Democratic Party of the path of the political system reforms in the USSR
- the
“Eastern politics” of the Vatican and its future course
- the perspectives of collaboration in the trade-economic and the humanitarian spheres between the USSR and Italy, including the area of setting up mixed [ownership] companies
3. Taking into
consideration possible meetings with the representatives of Italian business,
during the conversation with them, recommend the cooperative “Planeta” as a
partner in the Lithuanian SSR with the aim of expanding the cooperative’s
foreign ties.
Chief of the 1st Department of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSR
Colonel V. L. Karinauskas [signed]
No. 1/1-2143
16.06.1989
