Blog Series: Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt
Tale No. 7: Oleg Kalugin and the Encrypted Telegram from New York KGB Rezident to Lithuanian KGB
The original document was
scanned and uploaded by the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of
Lithuania on April 10, 2017. It can be accessed here.
Translation below by Filip Kovacevic, PhD
KGB of the Lithuanian SSR
Encrypted Telegram No. 2920
Received 14.05.1979 11:30 AM
Single Copy
From Moscow NR 45090 Secret
To Vilnius, Comrade Petkevičius, Yu. Yu.
We are sending you the telegram from New York on the instruction of Comrade Kalugin (PGU):
The publication of one of the oldest newspapers of the Lithuanian nationalist organizations ‘Keleivis’ in Boston has stopped due to material difficulties. Its long-time editor Sonda has been left without means of subsistence, he lives like a beggar.
NR 2060 Rezident KGB 11.5.79
Added by hand: To Comrade Stalauskas V. K., Please add to the existing materials on the newspaper ‘Keleivis’ and use in our informational and counterpropaganda efforts.
Signed [illegible]
NOTE: Juozas Petkevičius was the chairman of the Lithuanian KGB from 1967 to 1987. Vytautas Stalauskas was the chief of the 2nd Section of the 5th Service of the Lithuanian KGB from 1979 to 1982. The newspaper “Keleivis” [The Passenger] began its publication in 1905 and went defunct in 1980.
