Blog Series: Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt
Tale No. 3: KGB-Moscow Asks KGB-Vilnius to Wiretap Visiting American Students
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
The KGB of the Lithuanian SSSR
Encrypted Telegram No. 9123
Received 24.12.1986 9:55 AM
[signature illegible]
From Moscow No. 16245 Secret
Vilnius: To the Chief of the 1st Department of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSSR, Karinauskas V. L.From December 27 to December 30 of this year, a group of American (11 individuals) and Italian (3 individuals) students studying at the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Linguistic University will be visiting Vilnius.
The group will be housed in the dormitory of the Vincas Kapsukas Vilnius State University.
We request, if possible, [for you] to set up operative observation, including the use of operative-technical means, of the objects of interest Peter Byrne, Eric Nehrbauer, Bryan Connell and Sally Patterson.
For the coordination of this task, an officer of the Directorate RT, Lt. Colonel Yuri Sergeyevich Tumanov, will arrive as a member of the group.
No. 61561/RT Deputy Chief of the Directorate RT PGU KGB USSR Goncharov
23.12.1986.
[The document contains the handwritten short remarks and signatures of several Lithuanian KGB officers.]
