Inventory of the Lietuvos SSR Valstybės Saugumo Komitetas Selected Records

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Inventory of the Lietuvos SSR Valstybės Saugumo Komitetas [Lithuanian KGB] Selected Records

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Processed by:: Hoover Institution Archives staff
Date Completed:: 2009
Encoded by:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by Elizabeth Konzak.

Collection Summary

Title: Lietuvos SSR Valstybės Saugumo Komitetas selected records

Dates: 1940-1991

Collection Number: 2010C4

Creator: Lietuvos SSR Valstybės Saugumo Komitetas

Collection Size: 1075 microfilm reels (161.25 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Microfilm of reports, memoranda, correspondence, lists, directives, and other documents, relating to secret police, intelligence and counter-intelligence activities, dissident and anti-Soviet activities, and repatriation and nationalism issues, in Lithuania. Detailed Russian-language finding aids are available on the Hoover Institution website at http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives/collections/east-europe/featured-collections/lietuvos-ssr and on the microfilm at the beginning of each opisi.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Languages: Russian, Lithuanian

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], reel [number], Lietuvos SSR Valstybės Saugumo Komitetas selected records, Hoover Institution Archives. Originals in Lietuvos Ypatingasis Archyvas, Fond [number], opis [number], file [number].

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2009. Several increments were received from 2010 to 2011.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of microfilm reels listed in Socrates is larger than the number of microfilm reels listed in this finding aid.

Location of Originals

Originals in: Lietuvos Ypatingasis Archyvas (Lithuanian special archives), Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Zukatskas (V. P.) collection, Hoover Institution Archives

Separated Materials

The Lithuanian special archives removed some files and pages from the microfilm before providing it to the Hoover Institution. The deleted files and pages contained personal names that were not releasable due to personal privacy concerns.

Arrangement Statment

The collection is organized in multiple fondy (record groups), with one or more opisi (records series) within each fondy.

Historical Note

Lithuanian branch of the Soviet secret police organization Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Scope and Content of Collection

This collection consists of selected opisi (records series) from what were the fifty-four opisi in Fond No. K-1, Lietuvos SSR Valstybės Saugumo Komitetas (Committee of State Security of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, LSSR KGB), 1940-1991, held at the Lietuvos Ypatingasis Archyvas (Lithuanian special archives).

Over the years that Hoover acquired this microfilm, the Lithuanian special archives renamed many of the opisi in Fond K-1 and assigned them new fond and opis numbers. As a result, the microfilm at Hoover is described in three categories: (1) Fond No. K-1 opisi that are unchanged; (2) Fond No. K-1 opisi that Hoover received before new numbers were assigned; and (3) Fond No. K-1 opisi that Hoover received after new numbers were assigned. The numbering used at Hoover is outlined below. In all cases, the alternate numbers and titles are provided parenthetically in the series descriptions.

CATEGORY	NUMBERS USED AT HOOVER	ACTIONS TAKED BY LIETUVOS YPATINGASIS ARCHYVAS
1	Fond K-1, opis 2, 10	Fond and opis numbers unchanged
2	Fond K-1, opis 3, 14, 45	Renumbered as new fondy after Hoover received microfilm
3	Fond K-16 through K-31 (with gaps)	Renumbered as new fondy before Hoover received microfilm

The collection contains reports, memoranda, correspondence, lists, directives, and other documents related to intelligence and counter-intelligence activities of the secret police against dissident and anti-Soviet movements and to problems with repatriation and nationalism in Lithuania.

Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union the Lithuanian KGB-MVD archives are the largest accessible holdings of the Soviet political police (Russian and Ukrainian holdings are for all practical purposes closed), which were left almost intact in Vilnius, Lithuania, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The materials document the establishment and operation of the Soviet punitive organizations from 1940 to 1991 in a key Soviet republic that was both a frontier region and a bridge to the West. They cover key subjects such as the initial annexation of the Baltic republics; World War II; the postwar struggle against anti-Soviet nationalist guerillas; collectivization of the countryside; reform of the Soviet system after Stalin's death; reactions to upheaval in Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Poland in 1980-81, and the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe; reactions to increasing exposure to the West; and the final collapse of the Soviet power.

The opisi cover different aspects of the establishment, operation, and demise of the KGB in Lithuania: operational material on the struggle against individual and collective political dissent, anti-Soviet guerrillas, foreign intelligence and radio broadcasts (Fond K-1, Opis 3); the NKVD-NKGB-MGB-KGB secretariat, which gathered information on political community spirit and activities from local organizations and transferred them to Moscow (Fond K-1, Opis 10); political information gathered by the local NKGB-KGB departments, chiefly in Vilnius and Kaunas (Fond K-1, Opis 14); and a vast collection of material on dissidents, their investigation, interrogation, and trials (Fond K-1, Opis 2).

The opisi were chosen by the Hoover Institution from records already microfilmed by the Lithuanian special archives. Before sending the microfilm to Hoover the Lithuanian special archives removed some files and pages from the microfilm. Deleted files and pages contained personal names that could not be released due to personal privacy concerns. Entire files removed from the microfilm are indicated in the reel contents list on the microfilm at the beginning of each opis. Pages removed from files on the microfilm are indicated by a splice on the microfilm, but splices can also occur for technical microfilming reasons. In many cases gaps in the sequential pagination in the original file indicate where pages were deleted, as well as how many were deleted.

Russian-language finding aids created by the Lithuanian special archives are included in the microfilm at the beginning of each opisi and on the Hoover Institution website at http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives/collections/east-europe/featured-collections/lietuvos-ssr . The finding aids are arranged by file number and provide a description, number of pages, and the inclusive dates of each file.

The reel numbers used are those originally assigned by the Lithuanian special archives. They do not always run in a continuous, logical sequence, but they contain the entire opis. In addition, the microfilm often refers to the original fond and opis numbers, before the Lithuanian special archives renamed and renumbered much of the collection.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Secret service--Soviet Union.

Police--Soviet Union.

Police--Lithuania.

Nationalism--Lithuania.

Dissenters--Lithuania.

Lithuania--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.

Lithuania--Politics and government--1945-1991.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Glossary

GO: Gorodskie otdely (Municipal departments)
GUGB: Glavnoe upravlenie gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti Main Directorate of State Security
KGB: Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (State Security Committee)
KGB LSSR: Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti Litovskoi sovetskoi sotsialisticheskoi respubliki (State Security Committee of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic)
MGB: Ministerstvo gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (Ministry of State Security)
MVD: Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del (Ministry of Internal Affairs)
NKGB: Narodnyi kommissariat gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (People's Commissariat of State Security)
NKGD: Narodnyi kommissariat gosudarstvennykh del (People's Commissariat of State Affairs)
NKVD: Narodnyi kommissariat vnutrennikh del (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs)
OGPU: Ob''edinennoe glavnoe politicheskoe upravlenie United Main Political Directorate
SSSR: Soiuz Sovetskikh sotsialisticheskikh respublik (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Collection Contents

Fond No. K-1, Lietuvos SSR Valstybės Saugumo Komitetas (Committee of State Security of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, LSSR KGB) records

Reels 980-987

Opis 2, Records of the Counterintelligence Department of the NKVD-MGB-KGB of the LSSR 1941-1955

Physical Description: 8 reels

Scope and Content Note

Documents of the 3rd Department of the Directorate of State Security of the LSSR NKVD, 2nd Department of LSSR MGB, 1st Department of the LSSR MVD, and 2nd Department of the LSSR KGB relating to work with repatriates, exposure of Lithuanian, Polish, and Jewish anti-Soviet organizations, agents of foreign intelligence, the so-called "traitors to the Motherland," and correspondence of citizens with persons abroad. Statements reflecting acceptance, transfers, and destruction of documents. Lists of repatriates, re-émigrés, and persons without citizenship. Lists of Polish refugees of 1939 who in 1940-1941 refused to accept Soviet citizenship. Accounts and special reports on subdivision of local LSSR NKVD-MGB-KGB agencies. Reports of special agents. Minutes of interrogation of arrested persons and witnesses. Reports to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania regarding counterintelligence operations. Personal data on students of the SSSR MGB school in Lithuania.

Reels 605-960

Opis 3, Records of the Structural Divisions for Struggle against Lithuanian Nationalistic Underground and Counterintelligence Divisions of the NKVD-KGB of the LSSR 1940-1985

Physical Description: 356 reels

Scope and Content Note

Directives relating to the struggle against the armed underground. Documents concerning connection channels between Lithuanian emigration centers and the Lithuanian armed underground and radio games of the LSSR MGB with American, English, and Swedish intelligence services. Lists of combat units of the Lithuanian underground and documents relating to their investigation. Plans for cover intelligence and combat operations. Reports on elimination of the Lithuanian and Polish armed underground. Captured documents. Records of ideological counterintelligence units of the LSSR MGB-KGB concerning disclosure, interception, and prevention of anti-Soviet activities among the intelligentsia, youth, and clergy. Files of reconnaissance and sabotage groups of the NKVD that had led guerilla fighting in the rear of Nazi German troops in 1941-1944.

(Now Fond K-41, Second Directorate of the Committee of State Security (KGB) of the Lithuanian SSR; Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the Second Directorate])

Reels 32-221, P216-P226

Opis 10, Records of the Secretariat of the NKGB-MGB-KGB of the LSSRs 1940-1991

Physical Description: 189 reels

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania, Council of People's Commissars, SSSR NKGB-KGB, and other institutions; memoranda, accounts, and other documents relating to counterintelligence and the struggle with nationalistic underground organizations led by local NKGB-KGB departments. Statements reflecting acceptance and transfer of files within the LSSR NKGB. Registers of SSSR KGB orders, resolutions, instructions and other directive documents of the LSSR KGB. Grievances and petitions from local residents. Reports submitted by the LSSR NKVD-KGB to leaders of the SSSR NKVD-KGB. Operational plans and reports of subdivisions of the LSSR NKVD-KGB. Instructions from the LSSR KGB to local KGB agencies. Orders for LSSR KGB personnel. Complaints and petitions submitted by citizens. Material on SSSR population census. Registration books for orders, directives, and instructions issued by the SSSR KGB and LSSR KGB.

Reels 511-603, 1000

Opis 14, Records of city departments of the NKGB-KGB of the LSSR 1944-1987

Physical Description: 94 reels

Scope and Content Note

Working plans of city departments of the LSSR NKVD-KGB in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, and Panevėžys. Reports to the leadership of the LSSR NKGB-KGB. Correspondence of city departments with LSSR NKGB-KGB agencies and local party authorities. Complaints and petitions submitted by citizens, with related materials. Records on economical-financial activities of city departments of the LSSR NKGB-KGB. Registration books, statements reflecting acceptance and transfer of files within departments and destruction of documents.

(Now Fond K-18, Records of city departments of the Committee of State Security (KGB) of the Lithuanian SSR; Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the city departments])

Reels 1081-1495, 1498, A-139, A-140

Opis 45, Permanent records management files, NKVD-NKGB-MGB-KGB of the LSSR 1926-1991

Physical Description: 418 reels

Scope and Content Note

Permanent record management files of the LSSR NKVD-NKGB-MGB-KGB and local agencies of the SSSR OGPU-GUGB-NKVD-MGB-KGB concerning cultural, political, and public figures of the First Lithuanian Republic, leaders of the Lithuanian Catholic Church, "white insurgents" of 1941, post-war Lithuanian guerilla fighters, residents of Lithuania, suspected of collaboration with German occupation authorities or special services of Nazi Germany, fighters of Armia Krajowa, participants in Lithuanian and Polish anti-Soviet organization, refugees who tried to flee abroad, and other so-called state criminals.

(Now Fond K-30, Permanent records management files of the Committee of State Security (KGB) of the Lithuanian SSR, Opis 1, Permanent records management files)

Fond No. K-16, Records of the Inspectorate under the Chair of the Committee of State Security (KGB) of the Lithuanian SSR

Reels 988-999

Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the Inspectorate] 1946-1958

Physical Description: 12 reels

Scope and Content Note

Documents relating to inspection of surveillance-operative, counterintelligence, and investigatory work of MGB-KGB agencies of the LSSR. Materials concerning inspection of punishment administration.

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 11, Records of the Inspectorate under the Chair of the KGB of the LSSR)

Fond No. K-17, Records of the Pretrial Detention Center of the Committee of State Security (KGB) of the Lithuanian SSR

Reels 276-278, 279A, 961-967, 969, 970 (part)

Opis 1, Office records 1944-1991

Physical Description: 13 reels

Scope and Content Note

Records of the Prison Department and Internal Prison of the LSSR MGB and Pretrial Detention Ward of the LSSR KGB. Documents relating to inspection of internal cells of the LSSR MGB and pretrial detention wards of the LSSR KGB in uezds and cities. Correspondence relating to prisoners and operative work. Lists of prisoners and investigatory files. Various informational statements.

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 13, Pretrial Detention Center of the KGB of the LSSR: Office records; Prisoners' personal files)

Reels 970 (part), 971-979

Opis 2, Prisoners' personal files 1944-1990

Physical Description: 10 reels

Scope and Content Note

Prisoners' personal files. Records of valuables seized from prisoners.

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 13, Pretrial Detention Center of the KGB of the LSSR: Office records; Prisoners' personal files)

Fond No. K-19, Records of oblast level Directorates of the Ministry of State Security (MGB) of the Lithuanian SSR

Reels 279-487, 604, 1001-1002

Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the oblast level directorates] 1949-1953

Physical Description: 212 reels

Scope and Content Note

Directives for struggle against the Lithuanian armed underground issued by the LSSR MGB directorates in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, and Šiauliai to LSSR MGB departments in raions. Correspondence. Reports from MGB departments in raions relating to elimination of the armed underground and counterintelligence work and operations concerning search for state criminals. Lists of Lithuanian guerilla fighters and personnel of MGB directorates in oblasts.

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 16, Records of the oblast level directorates of the MGB-MVD of the LSSR)

Fond No. K-20, Records of the Fourth Department of the Ministry of State Security (MGB) of the Lithuanian SS

Reels 241-271

Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the Fourth Department] 1943-1953

Physical Description: 31 reels

Scope and Content Note

Directives from the SSSR NKGB-MGB-MVD relating to search of state criminals. Reports, correspondence statements lists of prisoners, and other office documents of the LSSR NKGB-MVD reflecting their work in the search of state criminals (mostly residents of Lithuania under suspicion of collaborating with German authorities or intelligence services of Nazi Germany).

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 17, Records of the Second Department of the NKGB-MGB of the LSSR; Records of the Fourth Department of the NKGB-MGB of the LSSR)

Fond No. K-21, Records of the Operative Departments of the SSSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and the Ministry of State Security (MGB)

Reels 221-240

Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the Operative Departments] 1943-1953

Physical Description: 20 reels

Scope and Content Note

Directives of the SSSR NKVD representative for the Lithuanian SSR relating to the struggle against the armed underground. Directives to the LSSR NKVD-NKGB departments in uezds from heads of operative departments of the NKVD-NKGB. Reports reflecting the struggle of LSSR NKVD-NKGB departments in uezds, NKVD troops, and operative departments of the NKVD-NKGB against the Lithuanian/Polish armed underground. Captured documents.

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 18, Records of the Operative Departments of the SSSR NKVD-NKGB in Lithuania)

Fond No. K-22, Records of the Special Department of the SSSR People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the 29th Rifle Corps of the Baltic Military District (Okrug)

Reel 488

Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the Special Department] 1940-1941

Physical Description: 1 reel

Scope and Content Note

Documents of special SSSR NKVD departments of the 29th territorial Red Army corps, reflecting NKVD efforts of "cleaning" the 29th corps (former Lithuanian army) of the "hostile and untrustworthy elements."

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 19, Special Records of the NKVD Department of the Baltic Military Okrug)

Fond No. K-23, Records of the Republican Commission of the Committee of State Security (KGB) of the Lithuanian SSR for Revision of Criminal Cases of Persons Kept in Camps, Colonies, and Prisons of the SSSR MVD or in Exile in Special Settlements for Counterrevolutionary Crime

Reels 1-26

Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the Republican Commission] 1949-1953

Physical Description: 26 reels

Scope and Content Note

Minutes of the Republican Commission. Correspondence with the SSSR Procurator's Office. Statements and statistical surveys concerning revision of cases and rulings on reviewed sentences. Appeal of the LSSR Procurator's Office as an act of supervision. Memorandum to the Commission to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania. Cover letters to cases and documents.

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 20, Records of the Republican Commission for revision of criminal cases of persons convicted of "counterrevolutionary crimes.")

Fond No. K-26, Records of the KGB (Committee of State Security) Department under the SSSR Council of Ministers on the Lithuanian Railway

Reels 488A, 489-511, 1003

Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the Department] 1944-1960

Physical Description: 25 reels

Scope and Content Note

Reports to the Main Transport Directorate of the SSSR NKGB-KGB. Correspondence with communist party institutions and Soviet authorities. Orders relating to personnel. Directives to NKGB-KGB departments on the Lithuanian Railway, their working plans and accounts. Documents and assets acceptance and transfer statements. Sabotage on the railway cases.

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 28, Records of the Department of the SSSR NKGB-MGB-MVD-KGB on the Lithuanian Railway)

Fond No. K-27, Records of School Number 303 of the Committee of State Security (KGB) under the SSSR Council of Ministers

Reels 27-31, 1004-1010

Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the School] 1946-1960

Physical Description: 12 reels

Scope and Content Note

Orders of the director of the Lithuanian school- (Lithuanian school for training operative personnel, school No. 303 of the SSSR NKGB-KGB Correspondence. Financial documents. Acceptance-transfer statements; materials relating to inspection of existing and destroyed records and discarded documents and written-off assets. Students' grade books.

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 29, Records of School No. 303 of the SSSR Committee of State Security (KGB))

Fond No. K-31, Records of the General Service Department of the Committee of State Security (KGB) of the Lithuanian SSR

Reels 271A, 272-276

Opis 1, Files relating to the activities [of the General Service Department] 1945-1959

Physical Description: 6 reels

Scope and Content Note

Orders of the NKGB-KGB of the LSSR, its General Service Department, and the Construction Department of the LSSR MGB. Economic and financial papers. Documents relating to financial support rendered to so-called people's defense units. Orders of the LSSR MGB-KGB on job placement of former "people's defense fighters."

(Formerly Fond K-1, Opis 30, Records of the Construction Department of the NKGB-MGB-MVD-KGB of the LSSR)

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