Monday, April 19, 2021

The Titles of the PhD Dissertations Defended at the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in 1985

Blog Series: Reading Secret Journals of the KGB

Title: The Titles of the PhD Dissertations Defended at the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in 1985

Compiled by Lt. Colonel V. F. Chesnokov

Publication: Volume 39, Papers of the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB, Moscow, 1987, pages 499-506. Classified as Top Secret.

Translated by Filip Kovacevic, PhD

This list has never been officially declassified by the Russian government and is published here in English translation for the first time.

O. A. Antonov, “The Jurisdiction of the Soviet State Security Investigators in Criminal Proceedings.”

 

I. G. Bezuglov, “The Social-Pedagogical Issues in the Theory and Practice of the Training of the Comprehensively and Harmoniously Developed Personality of the Border Guard.”

 

M. N. Bogdan, “The Subversive Activities of the U.S. Military Intelligence against the Soviet Armed Forces from the Territory of the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin in the Present Time and the Measures of the Special Departments of the Soviet KGB for Their Discreditation.”

 

A. A. Kumensky, “The Registration Systems of the U.S. Population and of the Personal Identifications of U.S. Citizens and Their Use by the American Counterintelligence.”

 

V. I. Lukashin, “The Organization of the Work of the KGB Counterintelligence for Providing the Protection of Secrets at the Locations of the Military-Industrial Complex.”

 

S. P. Makarov, “The Issues in the Prophylactic Work by Military Counterintelligence.”

 

V. F. Panchuk, “The Struggle of the Special Departments of the Soviet KGB against the Access of Adversary’s Agents to Military Secrets.”

 

V. M. Povalyaev, “Some Issues in the Prophylactic Activities of Counterintelligence in the Present Time.”

 

A. G. Prilepsky, “Managing the Process of Operative [Agent] Development (Concerning the Cases of Treason in the Form of Espionage).”

 

N. M. Rakityansky, “The Socio-Psychological Analysis of the Negative Frames of Mind, Inducing Anti-Soviet and Anti-Social Actions.”

 

V. N. Reznichenko, “The Legal Regulations of the Protection of State Security in the Present-Day France.”

 

M. S. Toksabanov, “The Subversive Activities of the Chinese Intelligence Services against the Soviet Union from the Territory of the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region.”

A. A. Trumm, “The Criminal Investigations of Letters in the Work of the Service PK.”

I. V. Ustyushenko, “The Theoretical and Applied Issues in the Prophylactics of the Negative Processes Among the Creative Intellectuals by the KGB.”

 

V. V. Ushakov, “The Socio-Political Analysis of the Political Personality of the Individuals Committing Anti-Soviet and Anti-Social Actions.”

 

A. I. Chernov, “Operative Search for Enemy Agents Based on the Facts of the Adversarial Contact Operations.”

 

V. N. Chuprynenko, “The Legal and Administrative Framework for the Tourists from the Capitalist and Developing Countries in the USSR and Its Significance for the KGB Counterintelligence Activities.”

 

S. B. Shurygin, “The Activities of Japanese Intelligence Services for Providing the State Security of Japan and Their Impact on the Interests of the KGB.”

 

Sunday, March 28, 2021

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

  Blog Series: Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt

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. 

 

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

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

 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.