Lithuania country
also: Lithuanian, Lithuanians, Lithuanian American Council, Lithuanian Communist Party, Lithuanian partisans, Lithuanian people
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Claims (7)
Soviet Union annexed
Lithuania book_quoted
“Stalin had no difficulty in making certain changes to the European borders of Russia. Parts of Poland were annexed to the Ukraine and to White Russia. Parts of Finland were taken over. In some areas, Baltic republics annexed to White Russia…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 7:08
Reinhard Gehlen recruited
Lithuania host_asserted
“The OPC at the CIA and his organization was referred to as the org, which was what it was nicknamed. It's basically the BND and began scanning all of the immigrants that were in Germany at the time as recruits and preliminary training to be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Book Club_ President’s Secret War Chap 2 @ 42:26
Assembly of Captive European Nations member_of
Lithuania documented
“ACEN, Assembly of Captive European Nations. ACEN brought together all of these organizations, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. They also provided representatives to participate in …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 6 @ 26:30
Office of Policy Coordination carried_out_attack
Lithuania book_quoted
“October 3, 1949. A team was parachuted into Lithuania by Czech air crew working for OPC, Frank Wisner. Communications remained poor. The agent's messages garbled. The Baltics warned that the operation had been penetrated by the enemy, but t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 19:09
CIA carried_out_attack
Lithuania book_quoted
“Between 49 and 51, the CIA reportedly parachuted several more agents, but the results were poor. Accounts asserted that almost half of the operatives survived, but known cases mostly encountered trouble of one sort or another. A team of fou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 21:30
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists carried_out_attack
Lithuania guest_asserted
“were quick to join their movement, and basically they carried out a genocide against Jews, against Poles, against Russians, and were, like, incorporated into the German military intelligence. They also had formed ties with MI6 before this. …”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 9:52
Inter-Services Intelligence carried_out_attack
Lithuania book_quoted
“One early recruit to the CIA effort was Jonas Lucas, who parachuted back into Lithuania, but soon died at the side of the Forrest Brotherhood. That's the name of the indigenous fighters there. The SIS sent a team in the spring of 1950. They…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 21:04
Mentions (34)
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and cousin id is saying that she can't get back in so um i invited um her backup to uh bridget backup to speak um so anyway um where was i um i invited them both back back up um in the u.s case brokers operated from the u.s arranged to purc…
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company called Armamex, A-R-M-I-M-E-X, on the basis of documents stating that they were for use by the Lithuanian Defense Ministry. Armamex was able to secure an export license on the basis of the certificate being issued saying it was goin…
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send a vessel to pick up the cargo and deliver it to Puerto Rico. The owner of the shipping company who had worked for Armamex before was planning to use false documents stating that the cargo was bound for Lithuania. The court documents…
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Told Melnyk to resign and let him lead it. Melnyk refused. And so it was split, basically. So the OUNM was also fighting the OUNB. They were both competing for German support. And basically when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the…
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Independent nations Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia became Soviet socialist republics. In the case of the new socialist republics, Stalin claimed he was merely restoring pre-war conditions. Soviet forces had occupied Moldova and the Baltic r…
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German Nazi BND working basically for the CIA began. Stalin had troops in Lithuania at the time. He had eight divisions plus Air Force units around 80,000 men. But during the, let's see, American capabilities for covert operations came too …
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Control measures confronted a people in turmoil at the end of the year. Over half of the Lithuanians who had survived forced labor in Germany or service in the German army stayed in the West. About 50,000 more fled to the West as refugees, …
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Which is obviously to us, knowing what we know and where they found all of the ones like in Italy and the Netherlands and Belgium and everything else makes perfect sense. Which if we didn't know about Gladio, that would have not even been a…
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forested brotherhood, created false flag units and tried to demoralize the Lithuanian people through atrocities carried out in the name of the resistance. Huh, that's just like Gladio. The Soviets' amnesty, along with these false flag opera…
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these resistance elements inside of the Soviet Union. Partisan resistance reached a plateau around 1947 with a strength that had basically dwindled down to at least half. So they thought they started off about 50,000 and it ends up being ar…
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Forest Brotherhood benefited from the resentment triggered by the Soviet drive for agricultural collectivism and basically climbed back up to the 30,000 range. But Stalin called in 100,000 troops in order to fight them, and the Forest Broth…
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The Soviets' control of production norms in Lithuania farmers posed kind of like the rallying cry, if you will, among the Forest Brotherhood. The Organizational Bureau simultaneously controlled credit and prices for use with farm machinery.…
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All of this began dwindling the numbers of the Forest Brotherhood. The Baltic resistance groups could have benefited from outside help. Before the end of 1945, the Lithuanian partisans had contacted many people in Sweden, Germany, France, a…
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were in displaced persons camp in Germany, they signed a petition appealing for freedom for their country and sent it to Truman. Dr. Alfred Billman, formerly a Latvian minister to the U.S., had wrote dozens of books about what was going on …
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which became an immigrant group in the United States. They also had sent notices to other people, basically saying they wanted freedom. In 1948, the Lithuanians sent to the West a partisan leader with a special mission. His name was Józes L…
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to insert more resistance into the Soviet Union. There's a fairly large pool of people. They had as many right then, 4,000 Estonians, 11,000 Latvians, and 5,000 Lithuanians that they had as potential recruits. So that's a big bunch of fores…
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effort was a guy by the name of Juzas Luksa, L-U-K-S-A, who was parachuted back into Lithuanian, but died inside of the Forest Brotherhood. And it was not reported as to what he died from. So between 49 and 51, the CIA parachuted in several…
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when news of the atomic bomb reached Lithuania. In Baltic cities, one heard speculation that the Americans would hand Stalin an ultimatum and force Soviet withdrawal. To the enthralled partisans, it seemed freedom must lie around the next d…
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pitiously destroyed whatever hope remained among the citizens. Stalin's garrison in Lithuania had strong forces, but the brunt of the struggle was borne by the Soviet secret police. The Russians annexed the German port of Konigsberg, which …
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Memel to Lithuania, renaming it Klapida. Soviet control measures confronted a people in turmoil. More than 150,000 were sent to the gulags. Production norms for Lithuanian farmers and agricultural collectives made paupers of many of the res…
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any of them back to the Russians. The British controller Northern Area, Harry Lambton Carr, masterminded this operation. Partisans who at first relied on leftover German and captured Russian weapons began to get help from British intelligen…
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went to Britain and to America, where he wrote of partisans' actions behind the Iron Curtain. The Lithuanian American Council, a permanent immigrant group in the U.S., in January of 1947, made a public appeal for independence for the Allied…
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October 3, 1949. A team was parachuted into Lithuania by Czech air crew working for OPC, Frank Wisner. Communications remained poor. The agent's messages garbled. The Baltics warned that the operation had been penetrated by the enemy, but t…
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One early recruit to the CIA effort was Jonas Lucas, who parachuted back into Lithuania, but soon died at the side of the Forrest Brotherhood. That's the name of the indigenous fighters there. The SIS sent a team in the spring of 1950. They…
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Between 49 and 51, the CIA reportedly parachuted several more agents, but the results were poor. Accounts asserted that almost half of the operatives survived, but known cases mostly encountered trouble of one sort or another. A team of fou…
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but Hans Klose maneuvered and his unarmed, unloaded E-boat outran the pursuers. The agent landed during this escapade, later defected to the Russians as well. Major Lusepchik, the Soviet security mastermind, scored his greatest coup at this…
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The Soviets fooled Berkus, convinced Galdens to remain in Lithuania where they executed him, and inserted their own agent, Avritis Galitis, as the purported Forest Brotherhood chief. Galitis went completely unsuspected, regaling British cas…
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did not detect anything. The partisan war sputtered to its futile end, just as the CIA and SIS operation had reached its stride. The last battle in Lahtia was recorded in February 1950. By that time, the partisans in Estonia had been worn d…
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When all of the necessary people that you would want to reach were already dead, its appealing visions of democracy were at odds with the facts evident to the remaining partisans that British and American agents were intent on intelligence …
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In Lithuania, the National Partisan Army decided to disband in 1952. A few partisans continued to fight. There were reports of captures as late as 1960 and of the deaths in action against the Russians as late as 64. The CIA-SIS operation pe…
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direct civilian casualties in the three states were estimated at 75,000 people. It never had a hope of working. All of their agents that they sent in were killed. And along with it, anybody that had anything to do with them, which amounted …
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Lithuania and Estonia and parts of Western Ukraine. Since 1939, the Soviet Union had claimed those territories, but the Western allies had not recognized them. The U.S. and British clandestine activities compounded these problems. The Septe…
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was an umbrella group for Latvians, Estonians, and Lithuanians. So, again, all of them. These national committees were similar as far as the makeup and the way they were funded, the way they were ran. The management of a typical exile organ…
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ACEN, Assembly of Captive European Nations. ACEN brought together all of these organizations, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. They also provided representatives to participate in …