Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt No. 7: Oleg Kalugin and the Encrypted Telegram from New York KGB Rezident to Lithuanian KGB

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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 2^nd Section of the 5^th Service of the Lithuanian KGB from 1979 to 1982. The newspaper “Keleivis” [The Passenger] began its publication in 1905 and went defunct in 1980.

 

Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt No. 6: The Description of NASA Workshop Documents Covertly Acquired by the KGB in 1985

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Tale No. 6: The Description of NASA Workshop Documents Covertly Acquired by the KGB 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. 3

 

To the Chief of the 6th Directorate of the KGB

Lieutenant General Comrade Shcherbak F. A.

May 1985  

Moscow

 

Obtaining Information on FTI [Foreign Technical Intelligence]

 

In accordance with the Point 2 of the List of Required Information on Foreign Technical Intelligence (the KGB USSR Guidance No. 735/Ts from 29 April 1983), we are sending you the materials acquired in the operational manner about the research and use of the charge-coupled devices (CCD).

 

These materials deal with the outcomes of the workshop about the advancement of photometric equipment (NASA, 18-19 June 1984, San Diego, USA).

 

Included: the materials of the workshop, in one folder, 235 pages, non-secret, only to the addressee.

 

Deputy Chairman of the KGB [of the Lithuanian SSR]

Major General V. V. Zvezdenkov 

 

Note: The 6th Directorate of the KGB was in charge of economic counterintelligence dealing with industry, science, and trade. General Fyodor Shcherbak was the chief from November 1982 until April 1989. 

 

Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt No.5: Covertly Acquired NASA Workshop Documents Were Put to Use by the Soviet Military-Industrial Complex in 1985

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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 6^th 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.