👀 NEW: 20 original #KGB documents from the Lithuanian Special Archives were released by the Genocide & Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania on October 17, 2023. (kgbveikla.lt)
🧵 I've translated the titles of the released KGB documents below. @SocIntelHist @CWIHP
1. The Minutes No. 77 of the meeting of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania on September 15, 1961. [some pages missing]
2. An Executive Order of the Acting Chairman of the Lithuanian KGB, Major-General S. A. Tsaplin dated April 24, 1991.
3. A Request to the Acting Chairman of the Lithuanian KGB, Major-General S. A. Tsaplin dated February 15, 1991.
4. A Request to the Deputy Chairman of the Lithuanian KGB, Colonel A. I. Armonas dated April 5, 1991.
5. A Decision to promote the Lithuanian KGB Junior Lieutenant Yuri N. Kiriushchenko to Lieutenant dated July 22, 1991. Kiriushchenko was an officer of the 8th Group (encryption & decryption service) of the KGB municipal branch in Klaipeda.
6. A Letter to the Chairman of the Lithuanian KGB, Major-General E. A. Eismuntas regarding the training of KGB psychologists dated December 9, 1989.
7. A Decision of the Lithuanian KGB regarding the strengthening of counterintelligence measures involving flight safety dated November 17, 1978.
8. A Decision by the Deputy Chairman of the KGB, Lieutenant-General V. A. Ponomarev regarding the recommendations of the KGBs of the Baltic Republics dated January 27, 1990.
9. A Report regarding the correspondence, requests, and claims of Soviet citizens addressing the Lithuanian KGB in 1987 dated March 25, 1988.
10. A Report regarding the investigation of the loss of top secret documents by the Operational-Technical Department of the Lithuanian KGB dated October 10, 1984.
11. A Job Description for the KGB typist dated 1986.
12. A Job Description for an unnamed position having to do with handling KGB documents and archives dated 1986.
13. A Methodology for investigating the professional engagement of the operational officers in the KGB municipal branches dated 1986.
14. Information on the received complaints regarding the behavior of KGB officers in the period from 1986 to 1988 dated July 13, 1988.
15. Soviet Armed Forces instructions regulating the granting of rewards and promotions and the imposition of disciplinary measures as applied to the KGB dated November 2, 1986.
16. A Memo on what documents must be included in each operational file. [undated]
17. A List of newspaper articles prepared for publication with the assistance of the 3rd Department of the 2nd Directorate (counterintelligence) of the Lithuanian KGB in the period from 1984 to 1987. [undated]
18. A List of the basic types of information that must be included in the annual reports of KGB counterintelligence activities. [undated]
19. A KGB report on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Vilnius, Bishop Aleksi [Aleksandr Petrovich Dekhtiarev] and his relations with a top Communist official V. A. Gushchin dated September 27-28, 1957.
20. A Report on the operational situation in the Lithuanian SSR concerning the Second Directorate (counterintelligence) matters dated February 18, 1988.