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1. KGB Kaunas district. Letter concerning the removal of agents from the network of agents after they have taken up positions within the party.

Date: 1953-03-23
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-15, ap. 1, b. 120, l. 153-154
Uploaded: 2023-08-08

2. Minister of State Security of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic to the Minister of State Security of the USSR on the legalisation of bandits and illegal residents.

The document describes the organisation of the so-called ‘legalisation’ of participants of the armed resistance in cooperation with party authorities in Estonia in 1953. A document from a branch of the Estonian State Archives, Archive 131SM.
Date: 1953-01-15
Country: Estonia
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Uploaded: 2020-01-23

3. Certificate regarding the situation in the area of human intelligence work at the Department 2-N of the Ministry of State Security in the territory of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The document describes the organisation and situation in the area of the fight of the Ministry of State Security of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic against armed resistance and Estonian national organisations as of January 1950. A document from a branch of the Estonian State Archives, Archive 131SM.
Date: 1950-01-01
Country: Estonia
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Uploaded: 2020-01-23

4. Memorandum of MGB ESSR to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Estonian Communist Party on the Work of the State Security Bodies of the Estonian SSR for the Periods of 1940-1941 and 1944-1948.

In 1948, the ministries of the ESSR, including MGB (Ministry of State Security), reported on the course of Sovietizations. It is evident from the MGB report that it did not provide the full information, for example the statistics of arrests, to the local bodies. The greatest quota of the arrested, the so-called “traitors to their country” was not indicated. According to the statistical data, in 1945-1948 alone the ESSR NKGB-MGB bodies arrested 9377 people, excluding the participants of the armed resistance (the so-called “bandits”), in the main arrested by the NKVD bodies
Date: 1948-10-16
Country: Estonia
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Uploaded: 2020-01-23

5. Directive No. 489 of the Minister of State Security of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic on the operational functions of county units of the Ministry of State Security of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic in the area of the fight against bandits

In the directive, the Ministry of State Security defines armed resistance as ‘political banditry’; it also lists its types. A document from a branch of the Estonian State Archives, Archive 131SM.
Date: 1947-03-25
Country: Estonia
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Uploaded: 2020-01-23

6. Order Nr.005 of the Minister of State Security of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic regarding the dislocation of unit 260 of the rifle regiment of the Ministry of State Security in the territory of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Dislocation and tasks of the troops of the Ministry of State Security in the fight against armed resistance in Estonia in 1947. A document from a branch of the Estonian State Archives, Archive 131SM.
Date: 1947-03-13
Country: Estonia
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Uploaded: 2020-02-25

7. Directive of the Minister of State Security of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic on the strengthening of measures aimed at the fight against bandits in March and April 1947.

Directive of the Ministry of State Security on the fight against armed resistance in Estonia in 1947. A document from a branch of the Estonian State Archives, Archive 131SM.
Date: 1947-03-04
Country: Estonia
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Uploaded: 2020-01-23

8. Order on NKVD-NKGB ESSR in 1945 No. 00106/0012 “Оn the Measures for the Strengthening of the Fight against the Anti-Soviet Nationalist Underground and Its Armed Gangs in the Estonian SSR”.

In September 1945 for the purpose of carrying out the instructions of L. Berya on the liquidation of the “anti-Soviet nationalist underground and its armed gangs (the Soviet term related to the armed resistance against the USSR occupational power)”, B. Kobulov, the USSR NKGB Deputy People’s Commissar and the ESSR NKGB and NKVD People’s Commissars gave orders on the improvement of the agency work.
Date: 1945-09-04
Country: Estonia
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Uploaded: 2020-02-19

9. Notification given by the Tartu City Department of the NKVD of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic on work with White Guardsmen’s religious organisations.

Notification on the fight against Russian religious organisations in the town of Tartu. A document from a branch of the Estonian State Archives, Archive 131SM.
Date: 1941-02-01
Country: Estonia
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Uploaded: 2020-01-23

10. USSR NKVD instruction for LSSR Internal Affairs Commissar A. Guzevičius on the work against Catholic clergy.

In the document, the immediate tasks are provided for agency-operational work directed against the “subversive activities” of Catholic priests. Most attention is devoted to the measures which would help to create the reliable agency network inside the Church.
Date: 1941-01-01
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, f. K-41, ap. 1, b. 300, l. 122-127
Uploaded: 2020-01-23

11. The list of questions provided by the 2nd Department of the KGB of the LSSR, intended for persons returning from private trips to capitalist and developing countries.

This document contains the list of questions to be asked to persons returning from foreign countries.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-41, ap. 1, b. 723, l. 26 - 32.
Uploaded: 2020-10-16

12. The certificate of the 2nd branch of the 2nd Department of the KGB of the LSSR about work of the branch, headed by J. Andropov, the Chairman of the KGB of the USSR, carried out in compliance with his requirements.

This document provides information on how resolutions of the meeting of the KGB of the USSR had been applied for activities of the branch.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-41, ap. 1, b. 731, l. 171 - 178.
Uploaded: 2020-10-16

13. Letter from the LSSR KGB to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania regarding the case of Simas Kudirka.

In this letter, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania was informed about the criminal case against Simas Kudirka for trying to escape from Lithuania.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-41, ap. 1, b. 763, l. 136-142
Uploaded: 2021-01-12

14. Recommendations on how to disguise KGB cadre going for training to KGB and Ministry of Internal Affairs training institutions in the USSR.

This letter details the Party’s practical arrangements of its work with Chekist families: joint cultural activities, trips to the countryside.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-42, ap. 1, b. 50, l. 2-6
Uploaded: 2023-08-08

15. Questionnaire for reporting a complaint filed by a person to the Soviet security services.

This questionnaire details the types of information the KGB needs from a person planning to travel abroad.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-37, ap. 1, b. 20, l.6
Uploaded: 2023-08-08

16. Certificate on the use of information received from residents and collaborators.

This questionnaire specifies the types of information the KGB needs from a person planning to travel to socialist countries.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-37, ap. 1, b. 20, l.20-27
Uploaded: 2023-08-08

17. Certificate detailing the KGB’s methods of investigating information obtained from whistleblower complaints

This form is a request to the Ministry of the Interior to obtain a leave to travel abroad.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-37, ap. 1, b. 20, l.19-19ap
Uploaded: 2023-08-08

18. A questionnaire of the person willing to travel abroad and an annex.

This is standard application form asking to run a background screening of a person.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-37, ap. 1, b. 5-6
Uploaded: 2023-08-08

19. List of questions to be asked of the KGB candidate’s wife.

Letter from KGB units granting leave to travel abroad.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. K-42, ap.1, b, 56, l.158
Uploaded: 2023-08-08

20. Activities of the F. Dzerzhinsky’s Club

This is the standard card that is issued to a person who wants to go abroad.
Date:
Country: Lithuania
Archive signature: LYA, F. 17377, ap. 1, b. 27, l.112-121
Uploaded: 2023-08-08

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