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.                                                 

 

Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt No. 3: KGB-Moscow Asks KGB-Vilnius to Wiretap Visiting American Students

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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 1^st 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.]