TV STATION IN VILNIUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A052700110001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 10, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246A052700110001-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.O. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Lithuanian SSR)
SUBJECT TV Station in Vilnius
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ
of the station and includes a sketch of the tation la-vout and a
table of organization.
STATE I XARMY NAVY AIR NSA
X FSI NIC X
?? ? ??? ? ? ???
DATE DISTR.
NO. PAGES
REFERENCES
O Febr uor~ 19100
repobt consists of five pages describing the physical installations
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246A052700110001-4
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246AO52700110001-4 50X1-HUM
?
-1 -~ ri s~- LG_. 1 W 1
TV STATION IN VIfNYUS
The TV station called Lithuanian SSR Radio and TV Committee
( Litovskiy Respublikanskiy Komitet Radio i Televiddniye ) at No.
27 ul..itsa Kanarskogo began to operate on 2 January 1957. It
occupied an area 200 meters x 100 meters surrounded by an
approximately two meter high brick and cement wall.
legend to attachment No. 1
(1)
Main four-story brick and cement building 60 meters x 30
meters with a semi-basement first floor.
a) The first floor contained the following: boiler heating
unit; quarters for about 12 militia guards on duty 24
hours daily; an unspecified number of dressing rooms and
rooms for artists; a studio for all kinds of broadcasts,;
a carpentry shop making sets and continually repairing
buildings, as construction had been deficient, and a
storage area for set parts.
b) The second floor contained the following: instruments for
transmitting the complete representation, pictures and
sound, to the transmitter; channel commutation instruments
motion picture projection instruments; studios of
different sizes, still in construction in 1959, for
obtaining various acoustic effects; spare ; )arts storage
area, and several specialized sections or groups for the
preparation of programs.
The third floor contained the Thllowing: director's
office; office of TV chief; offices of assistants and
diredting personnel; station administrative and
technical offics,d most, of the specialized Groups
preparing programs.
d) The fourth floor contained the TV transmitter and the
modulated frequency radio transmitter.
d.1) The NIIS ( Nauchno Issledovatelskiy Institut Svyazi,
Scientific Research Institute of Telecommunications )
TV transmitter built in Leningrad in 1957 had a 200
~~F~~i~~~T' 1 50X1-HUM
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246AO52700110001-4
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246AO52700110001-4
-2- COi:f-MENTIAI; a;Z.c,
E 50X1-HUM
kilowatt input, 15-kilowatt output, and 90- kilometer
effective range. It operated on a 6.5 megacycle wide
1ater4 band in the fourth channel. It transmitted
on work days from 1900 hours to 2300 hours and on some
holidays from 1200 hours to 1500 hours and from 1900
hours to 2300 hours.
d2) The modulated frequency transmitter, of the same make
as the TV transmitter and also built in Leningrad in
1957, had a 30-kilowatt input, 2.5- kilowatt output, and
60-kilometer effective range. It operated on the
modulated frequency channel with a. width of 50 kilocycles
and transmitted daily from 0800 hours to'2400 hours.
(2) A single=story brick and cement building six to seven meters
high, not finished in 1957. It was connected to the main
building ( No, 1 ) as an enlargement of the sate and was to
be used for televised theatrical, musical, eiid folklore
programs.
(3) A two-story brick and cement building about 35 meters x 15
meters, not finished in the spring of 1959?
a) The first floor had a garage for the two autobuses
belonging to the mobile televising crew; another garage
was for the six to eight passenger cars; and t;iere was a
small repair shop for the vehicles and equipment that the
mobile crew brought in.
50X1-HUM
b) The second floor was not yet occupied; it
was to be used for offices and a technical library.
(4) Antenna of the TV and modulated frequency transmitters. It
was a. square-section metal tower 200 meters high with a row
of red aircraft warning lights from about 50 meters above
ground level to the top.
(5) A single-story brick and cement building about 10 meters x
3 meters, where an electric power transformer was installed
which received current of 6,000 volts from the city power-
house and transformed it into 220 volts. The station had no
50X1-HUM
reserve generators.
COI~FIC go~~ ~~.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246AO52700110001-4
 50X1-HUM
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246AO52700110001-4
-3-
(6) Main personnel entrance. e c e en rances were on both
sides of building A ( unlocated on sketch ).
(7) Brick wall surrounding the installation.
(8) Ulitsa Kanarakogo.
(9) Houses.
(10) Park, called Vingis in Lithuanian, 8akret in Polish, and
Gorodskoy in Russian.
(11) Houses.
The installation's total electric pager consnption was 400
kilowatt /hours per year.
the following personhel information: 50X1-HUM
Six engineers and 34 TV technician. specialists worked
two eight-hour shifts. To insure continuous service, one
shift overlapped the other and they alternated working
overtime. The majority were Russians. Forty percent
were women.
The cultural or program preparation section had about 150
Lithuanian employees of both sexes, specialists in their
respective types of programs, who worked a singlec~eight-
hour shift.
There were about 40 administrative employees.
Station subordination was as follows: the technical section was
subordinate to the Ministry of Communications, and the program
section to the Ministry of Culture. ( See attachment No. 2 for
TV organizational chart.) It was rumored in 1959 that these
ministries would almost certainly be merged. There was some
national rather than technical conflict between the station's
technical employees and those of the cultural secion because,
Lithuanians and Russians were intolerant of
50X1-HUM
each other.
CONFIDENTIAL
~--- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246AO52700110001-4
 Attachmen+ N0.1.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246AO52700110001-4
11
Ske+~6 4 Vilnyus TV Station
A roxi ma+c scale 1:1, 0 00
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246AO52700110001-4
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06 :CIA-RDP80T002
A#fcichmenf No. 2 46A052700110001-4
P14, Iarryy 4
Corn n& s
icc4icn
Director
Ministr of
C u~~vrre
chi-of of TV
Tiec.hnicc
Assi: tint
Chi*P dr
[rsonnu'
c Iia-F
En9ina~r
Supply
gssis on""
Fi nc n ce
ss is+cinf
ILWe-
Fr- Craw
Si1n: Ls
Enlinaer
din ~r
a'reup
hi.?-
Trt-nsmi*er
En incsr
corn ara
Technici ans
chrucia [Technicuins
Fi rin1
En9:naar
Mc ,se Qnd Phou
LGborcadc+r ieS
0Tnon c :-
G rou
r1 1 47 r4 41 r-OL, 41 rLiI r-~ r mm r -t
r i
12
I',- I 11f a
IAsss is lan4s fl"t n D -Ii
schaicidni
ss$stcants
k-
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/10/06: CIA-RDP80T00246AO52700110001-4
w
4
50X1-HUM,
z
tn
0
U