Blog Series: Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt
Tale No. 5: Covertly Acquired NASA Workshop Documents Were Put to Use by the Soviet Military-Industrial Complex in 1985
The
original document was scanned and uploaded by the Genocide and Resistance
Research Centre of Lithuania on September 24, 2018. It can be accessed here.
Translation below by Filip Kovacevic, PhD
Secret
Doc. No. 1
The Committee
on State Security of the USSR Deputy KGB Chairman
The 6th Directorate of the Lithuanian SSR
Department 12 Major General
12. 07. 1985 No. 136/12-646 Comrade Zvezdenkov V. V.
Moscow Vilnius
Regarding No. 21/1728 from 27.05.1985
The materials from the NASA workshop on the advancement of photometric equipment were assessed by the officials of the State Technological Commission of the USSR. According to their opinion, the obtained information is of interest to the specialists of the Vavilov State Optical Institute – the leading institution in the country for counteracting the optical-electronic intelligence by the adversary.
For further implementation, the information was sent to the Ministry of Military Industry of the USSR.
Head of the Department
Colonel N. A. Filatov [signed]
Note: The 6th Directorate of the KGB was in charge of economic counterintelligence dealing with industry, science, and trade.
