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2012 03 23

Lithuania to publish extensive list of former KGB agents

A list of 1,700 former KGB agents and 62 agent cards, except for those who voluntarily confessed to KGB past, will be published shortly along with other documents of the former Soviet security committee, says Arvydas Anušauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament's National Security and Defense Committee.
Arvydas Anušauskas
Arvydas Anušauskas / Andriaus Ufarto/BFL nuotr.

This has become possible after the State Security Department handed the documents over to Lithuania's Special Archives, Anušauskas says.

"We can now make the announcement that the State Security Department has transferred the important historic documents. This was done after lustration tasks and publication of information on residents who collaborated with the KGB was entrusted to the Genocide and Resistance Research Center," Anušauskas, member of ruling conservatives, said in a press release.

In his words, the majority of the information will soon be available on the website www.kgbveikla.lt.

"In the framework of the plan to publish KGB documents, a list of 1,700 agents and 62 agent cards will be published, except for those who came forward with their KGB collaboration. Nevertheless, the list will be long, thorough and interesting," Anušauskas said.

According to the press release, about 1,500 former KGB collaborators admitted their KGB past since lustration was opened 12 years ago.

Last month, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center published a detailed list of former KGB officers containing 238 names.

Personal files of some former reserve officers were also available online, including scanned documents of former director of the State Security Department, Arvydas Pocius, former foreign minister Antanas Valionis and a few judges.

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