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.                                                 

 

The Higher School of the KGB Special Department “M”: KGB Activities in the Special Period and the Wartime (1989)

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Title: The Higher School of the KGB Special Department “M”: KGB Activities in the Special Period and the Wartime (1989)

Author: Lt. Colonel L. M. Lutsenko

Publication: Volume 45, Papers of the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB, Moscow, 1989, pages 414-415. Classified as Top Secret. 

Translated by Filip Kovacevic, PhD

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

 

Summary

The Review of Scientific Articles and Reports

by the Professors and Graduates of the Special Department “M”

“Some Issues in the Activities of the KGB USSR in the Special Period and the Wartime” Volume 4 (1989)

 

The 4^th volume of the Review of Scientific Articles and Reports is written by the collective of authors about the issues related to the KGB activities in the special period and the wartime.

 

A.I. Tsvetkov tackles some questions in the restructuring of the students’ independent study at the Higher School when taking the Special Discipline “M” course.

 

P. E. Petrenko sheds light on the methodological recommendations for gaining practical skills and habits concerning the Special Discipline “M” course in the context of the restructuring of educational institutions.

 

V. P. Galitskiy presents the methodology for the study of the prisoners of war and the assessment of its results.

 

P. E. Petrenko and L. M. Lutsenko investigate the wartime military district as the object of subversive activities by the intelligence services of the main adversary.

 

A. I. Kozlovtsev presents the likely status and tasks of the military counterintelligence service on the territory of the adversary captured by the Soviet military during the war operations on the Western front.

 

V. P. Belov analyzes the problems of the increase in the mobilization readiness of the special departments of the KGB USSR in the Soviet military group in Germany in their work with the agent network.

 

L. M. Lutsenko examines the questions of the organization and conduct of territorial defense in contemporary conditions.  

A. S. Starodubets presents some experiences of the KGB USSR Border Guard intelligence units in defeating the bandit groups on the territory of the Republic of Afghanistan.

The article of E. A. Mokhov presents some unique features in the organization of the contact with agents used in the fight against the subversive activities of the gang formations in Afghanistan.

F. Kh. Subkhankulov sheds light on the questions of the use of prophylactic, legal, and military measures by the special departments of the KGB USSR in the Soviet Army in the fight against ideological sabotage by the adversary.

The Review of Scientific Articles and Reports is deposited in the special fund of the Scientific Library at the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB (no. 28894-n).

The Titles of the PhD Dissertations Defended at the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in 1984

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Title: The Titles of the PhD Dissertations Defended at the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in 1984

Compiled by Lt. Colonel V. F. Chesnokov

Publication: Volume 37-38, Papers of the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB, Moscow, 1986, pages 436-440. 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.

A.N. Alekseyev, “The Role of the Ruling Party Group in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Ideological Sabotage Against the USSR and Other Countries of the Socialist Bloc.”

I. A. Borodin, “The Socio-Psychological Aspects of the Activities of the KGB Against the Formation of Negative Personal Attitudes Among the Soviet Citizens who are under the Influence of their Relations with Foreigners.”

V. S. Kartavtsev, “The Aim and Motive of the Especially Dangerous Crimes against the State.”

A. M. Kolychev, “The Sabotage Activities of the Intelligence Services of the Imperialist States against the Naval Bases of the USSR in [Potential] War and the Fight against Them by Military Counterintelligence.”

A. P. Lysenko, “The Personality of the Soviet Military Intelligence Officer and the Particularities of Its Formation (The Philosophical and Sociological Analysis).”

V. I. Makhinin, “The Basic Questions in Predicting the Intelligence Intentions of the Adversary Toward the Scientific and Technical Secrets of the USSR.”

A. I. Nosik, “The Critique of the Bourgeois Falsifications Regarding the Essential Nature of the KGB.”

N. A. Pents, “International Terrorism and the Issues Concerning the Use of the Norms of International Law in the Counterintelligence Activities of the State Security Apparatus of the USSR in the Fight Against It.”

V. V. Petrov, “The Operative Investigations of Emergency Events Resembling Sabotage on the Industrial Infrastructure by the Counterintelligence Services of the KGB.”

A. A. Pogodin, “The Role of Intelligence Agencies of the Imperialist States in the Preparation of Ecological War Against the USSR.”

I. S. Sabirov, “The Prophylactics of Anti-Soviet, Nationalist Attitudes (On the Materials of the KGB of the Autonomous Republics in the Caucasus).”

Ya. F. Semyonov, “The Agent Networks of the State Security Operative Groups in the Rear of the Enemy During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).”

 

Tales from the Lithuanian KGB Crypt No. 4: A List of KGB Undercover Measures During the Lithuania Visit of U.S. Journalist Tom Brazaitis in 1989

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Tale No. 4: A List of KGB Undercover Measures During the Lithuania Visit of U.S. Journalist Tom Brazaitis in 1989

 

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

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

Colonel G. G. Chernikov [signed]

17 August 1989   

 

A List of

Undercover and Operative Measures

Concerning Object [of Interest] DPI No. 2348 BROTHER

 

According to the information from TsPOIS VGU KGB SSSR [Central Operative-Search System of the Second Chief Directorate of the KGB of the USSR], from August 10 until September 2, Object DPI No. 2438 BROTHER will be on the Moscow-Vilnius-Kaunas-Riga route -

 

Brazaitis Thomas, born in 1940,

native-born citizen of the U.S., the Washington Bureau

chief of the Cleveland newspaper The Plain Dealer,

resident of Washington, DC.

 

From 17.08.1989, Object will be in Vilnius at the invitation of the president of the organization “Tevishke” (“Homeland”) Comrade Sakalauskas (in accordance with the petition of the prominent Lithuanian émigré activist I. Bublen).

 

With the aim of detecting the potential signs of collaboration with the intelligence services of the U.S. [and] the conduct of hostile activities, and also the study [observation] of political, business, and personal qualities of BROTHER, the following undercover and operative measures are to be conducted:

1. Send agents [name redacted] and KRASHTOTIRININKAS (Comrade V. Bitinaitis) to study [observe] Object.

2. Conduct OTM “S” [operative and technical measures i.e., wiretapping] at the place of BROTHER’s temporary residence in Vilnius (Hotel “Draugyste,” Room No. 606, Tel. 66-16-37).

3. Search in the operative databases for the contacts of Object detected in the course of his study [observation].

4. Decide whether it is useful to establish a direct operative contact with BROTHER by Comrade V. Bitinaitis under the appropriate cover. 

Operative of the 1^st Section of the 1^st Department of the KGB of the Lithuanian SSR, Captain R. Chapas [signed] 

No. 1/1 – 2226 on 16.08.1989.

 

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.]