Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt No.1: A KGB Officer Under Journalistic Cover Tasked to Contact PRETTY WOMAN in Italy

Blog Series: Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt 

Tale No. 1: A KGB Officer Under Journalistic Cover Tasked to Contact PRETTY WOMAN in Italy

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

Secret

Doc. No. 1

 

Approved

Chairman of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSR

Major General Eismuntas, E. A. [signed]

16 June 1989

 

The Assignment

for the operative traveling to Italy

as a member of the delegation of the Committee of Youth Organizations (KMO) of the Lithuanian SSR

 

The delegation of the Committee of Youth Organizations (KMO) of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) is traveling to Italy in June of this year on the invitation of the youth organization of the Italian Christian-Democratic Party from the town of Treviso (Italy). The operative of the 1^st Section of the 1^st Department of the KGB of Lithuanian SSR, Captain Vladas Vladovich Bayorinas, is included in the delegation under the cover of a journalist for the Vecherniye Novosti [Evening News] newspaper. During its time in Italy, from June 21 to June 28, the delegation will discuss the perspectives of collaboration between the KMO and the youth organization of Christian-Democrats.

 

The operative, who is traveling as a member of the delegation, has received the following tasks:

1. Organize and conduct a meeting with an object of interest [DPI No. 2334] codenamed PRETTY WOMAN. During the conversation with PRETTY WOMAN obtain information about her contacts in Italy and her plans for the future. Also, incline her to publish objective information about political events in the republic [Lithuania] in Italian newspapers. Influence PRETTY WOMAN in the direction favorable to us.

2. During the conversations with the leaders of the Italian Christian-Democrat youth organization, obtain information on the following questions of interest to [our] political intelligence:

-  the possible [personnel] changes in the Italian Christian-Democratic Party

-  the preparations of Italian political parties for the elections to the European Parliament (about the level of representation in the European Parliament)

- the assessment by the leaders of the Italian Christian-Democratic Party of the path of the political system reforms in the USSR

-   the “Eastern politics” of the Vatican and its future course

- the perspectives of collaboration in the trade-economic and the humanitarian spheres between the USSR and Italy, including the area of setting up mixed [ownership] companies

3. Taking into consideration possible meetings with the representatives of Italian business, during the conversation with them, recommend the cooperative “Planeta” as a partner in the Lithuanian SSR with the aim of expanding the cooperative’s foreign ties.

Chief of the 1^st Department of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSR 

Colonel V. L. Karinauskas [signed]

No. 1/1-2143

16.06.1989

 

The Titles of the PhD Dissertations Defended at the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in 1981

 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 1981

Compiled by Lt. Colonel N. I. Fedosenko

Publication: Volume 30, Papers of the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB, Moscow, 1983, pages 387-392. 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.

V. M. Avseyko, “The Struggle of the KGB against the Subversive Activities of the Intelligence Services and Other Organizations of the Federal Republic of Germany Involving the Soviet Citizens of German Nationality.”

A. P. Bakholdin, “The Ideological Diversion of the Intelligence Services of the Imperialist States Directed at the Unity of the Socialist Commonwealth.”

Yu. F. Baryshev, “The Socio-Typological Approach Applied to the U.S. Citizens in the Course of Counterintelligence Activities.”

L. I. Bushkov, “The Detection of Language Abilities in Adults and the Prediction of Successful Foreign Language Acquisition in the Educational Institutions of the KGB.”

P. S. Vasilkov, “The Struggle of the State Security Apparatus Against the Bourgeois-Nationalist Underground on the Territory of Latvia in the Post-War Period (1945-1952).”

V. I. Gryazin, “The Tactics of Interrogation of the Accused During the Investigation of the Highly Dangerous Crimes against the State.”

A. F. Krayushkin, “The Subversive Activities of the U.S. Intelligence Services Against the Soviet Union on the Territory of India.”

Yu. L. Klimenko, “The Interpersonal Communication with the West Germans During the Process of Recruitment by the State Security Apparatus.”

S. A. Kolosov, “Releasing from Criminal Penalties due to the Cessation of the Threat to State Security.” [Translated into plain language: prison release after agreeing to work for the KGB]

A. G. Kolzeyev, “The Concept of Treason via Defection Abroad and the Soviet Criminal Law.”

V. V. Muntyan, “The Anti-Soviet Intelligence and Logistics Activities of the Foreign Centers of Ideological Subversion and The Present Problems in Combatting Them by Soviet Counterintelligence.”

V. A. Miknevichus, “Using the Agents of Influence by Soviet Counterintelligence in Making an Impact on the Adversary.”

A. I. Repin, “The National Character of the Vietnamese and Its Special Features in Communication.”

Yu. V. Say, “The Ideological Diversion of the Adversary Against the Soviet Union Using the Revisionist Ideology and the Special Features of the Struggle Against It by the State Security Apparatus.”

A.A. Fastenkov, “The Use of Official Warning by the State Security Apparatus of the Soviet Union.”

S. M. Shvets, “The Informational Security of Coordination and Collaboration in the Activities of the Soviet Military Counterintelligence.”

V. F. Shmelev, “The Ideological Diversion of the Adversary Against the Border Guard Personnel and the Struggle Against It by the Special Departments of the KGB.”