As the Georgian #KGB was getting ready for the international expo "RESORTS-86" in Tbilisi in 1986, the deputy chairman General Otar Khatiashvili sent a secret telegram to KGBs of other republics & the 6th Directorate in Moscow asking about compromising info on any participants.⬇️

NEW: 20 original #KGB documents were released by kgbveikla.lt on July 30, 2024, including a 29-page Lithuanian KGB lecture from 1972 on Western "ideological diversions" dramatically titled "In the Battle of Ideas, There Are No Compromises."

Great article! Zach Dorfman If #KGB officers involved came from the republican KGBs in Ukraine or the Baltics, or depended on them for cooperation, it might be possible to locate their reports & identify the Austrian who must've preferred his martini shaken, not stirred.

What can you tell about an organization from the library it keeps? In my paper for the upcoming Society for Intelligence History conference, I'll generate insights about #KGB from the destroyed library of the KGB School in Vilnius which I re-constituted through archival research at Hoover Institution.

In the opening paragraph, Dr Daniela Richterova mentioned Rodin/Korovin, the head of the infamous 13th Dept of KGB's 1st Chief Directorate. See who else thought Korovin was important: "13. What was Korovin doing in London in 1961?" From Edward Jay Epstein's book Deception (1989).⬇️

One of the most egregious fakes I came across in top secret Soviet state security documents: "In 1940, ZONTER [Sorge] was killed by Japanese gendarmes." Signed by Lt. Lobachev, Investigative Unit, #NKVD Transport Directorate, Feb. 13, 1943. From the Volkogonov Collection.

I highly recommend this new book by my colleague Sergei Zhuk. I wrote a blurb for the back cover. "Zhuk documents an eerie tale of #KGB's infiltration of Western universities & East-West academic exchange during the Cold War." Some methods & techniques never change. ⬇️

NEW: 20 original #KGB documents were released by kgbveikla.lt on August 22, 2024, including several documents dealing with the so-called Letter "M" measures: mobilization & military preparedness exercises of the Lithuanian KGB in the late 1980s.

This #KGB doc gives an inside view of KGB domestic HUMINT roles in the 1980s. There were 3 basic roles: agents, rezidents, and safehouse owners, with further distinctions: active or in preparations. Every municipal #KGB unit was required to report the number of each to HQ.

In 1985, a Lithuanian #KGB agent delivered a dozen U.S. government & NATO scientific monographs & articles on genetic engineering & infectious diseases to a KGB officer from the rezidentura in Washington DC. Here's the original KGB document with a list of obtained publications⬇️

In June 1987, an agent sent to the U.S. provided #KGB HQ in Moscow with "the modified program for DNA sequencing." "The initial program was created by the Chemistry Dept of the University of Minnesota & modified at the Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Pascal, one floppy disk."

What did #KGB task their officers & agents to collect about U.S. and NATO political & military strategy in 1985? This top secret KGB document lists the requirements divided into 4 areas: 1. Political 2. Military 3. Economic 4. Science & Technology

On October 1, 1985, Soviet Lithuanian fishing vessel "Taurage" entered the West German port of Wilhelmshaven. #KGB spy was on board & filed the report below. He counted 50 ships of various types, including those belonging to the West German Navy, which he described in detail.⬇️

When #KGB supervisor is not happy: "Comrade Belogortsev This report doesn't meet the standards of information deserving the attention of KGB. It sounds like some scientific reflections rather than operationally relevant data. Keep this in mind."

For my paper at Society for Intelligence History conference in February 2025, I am archivally reconstituting the titles at the top secret Special Library of #KGB School No. 303 in Vilnius destroyed or transferred in 1960. When I am done, I'll have listed more than 600 - mostly unknown - titles.

This remarkably revealing #CIA map declassified 20 years ago shows how little we still publicly know about the CIA's successes in penetrating the USSR in the 1950s. In addition to #GRU officer Pyotr Popov, there were 20 other agents-in-place whose stories remain to be told.

This map was a part of #CIA's "Inspector General's Survey of the Soviet Russia Division, June 1956." The report had more than 100 pages but only 13 were declassified in 2004. (tinyurl.com/5e74zk53) Today I filed a #FOIA request with the CIA to declassify the entire report.

#CIA's Cleveland C. Cram wrote a top secret report "A Review of Counterintel Literature, 1975-92" partially declassified in 2017. Looks like he believed that #KGB's dissolution would stop Russian intelligence disinfo, subversion & penetration attempts. This did not age well.

Sometimes in Russian #intel files I come across a document marked as COPY OF A COPY (see below). I always wonder who has the original and whether the original - if it still exists - will ever see the light of day.