Col. Baltrėnas takes over as Lithuania’s military intelligence chief

Baltrėnas took over from Šiuparis as director of the Second Investigation Department under the Ministry of National Defence in a ceremony on Monday, the ministry said in a press release.

Baltrėnas was deputy director of the department before National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas appointed him as director.

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Šiuparis, who had headed the department since 2012, has been appointed Lithuania’s defence attaché to the US and Canada.

The Second Investigation Department performs intelligence and counterintelligence in defence, military-political, military-economic and military-technical fields.

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