intelligence

  • Defence

Scope of national security threats changing – Chair of Committee

The scope of national security threats is changing with the European Union and NATO becoming the main target, the head…

8 years ago
  • Defence

Lithuania needs bigger defence budget for cyber security, universal conscription – MP

Lithuania needs a bigger defence budget to ensure cyber security and prepare for universal military conscription, says Vytautas Bakas, chairman…

8 years ago
  • Defence

State Defence Council approves 2017 intelligence priorities

The Lithuanian State Defence Council on Monday approved the country's intelligence needs and priorities for this year. [...]

8 years ago
  • Defence

Lithuanian leaders to approve 2017 intelligence priorities

The Lithuanian State Defence Council is holding a meeting on Monday where top officials of the country and heads of…

8 years ago
  • Defence

Suspected spies face 6, 13 yrs in prison in Lithuania

A Šiauliai court on Friday finished hearings in an espionage trial of a former Lithuanian officer and a Russian citizen…

8 years ago
  • Defence

Lithuania blocks plans for data centre over links to Russia’s FSB

Lithuania's authorities have taken steps to halt plans for building what would be the country's largest data centre near Vilnius…

8 years ago
  • Defence

Seimas’ speaker: MPs should be safe from impact of foreign states

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says that MPs need training by the State Security Department to be able to resist…

8 years ago
  • Defence

No comment from Security Dept on US warning of Russian election interferrence

The Lithuanian State Security Department has refused to comment on the media reports about the US intelligence warning Lithuania about…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE

New law on electronic communications will give Lithuanian intelligence services access to data

Lithuania’s parliament has adopted the electronic communications act article 77 amendments that will require entities or companies providing electronic communications…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Russian drones in Estonia hint at extensive spying and intimidation campaign against NATO

The Estonian Internal Security Service (KAPO) has informed NATO about suspicions that the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) spotted in the…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Politics

‘Current laws allow manipulation of criminal intelligence’ – Seimas committee

Lithuania’s parliament has decided that current laws allow manipulation of statements based on secret criminal intelligence and that disclosure of…

9 years ago
  • Defence

Lithuanian border guards targeted by foreign intelligence six times last year

Foreign intelligence agencies keep approaching Lithuania's border guards in order to recruit them, the State Border Guard Service (VSAT) said…

9 years ago
  • Defence

Foreign services made four attempts to recruit Lithuanian border guards this year

Four attempts by foreign services to recruit officers of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service were documented in 2015, the…

9 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Russia claims to have caught Lithuanian spy

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday it had detained a Lithuanian intelligence officer. Lithuanian officials have not provided…

10 years ago
  • Defence

VSD advises which Lithuanians are most likely to be targeted by Russian intelligence agencies

On Wednesday, a high officer in the Polish military was detained on suspicions of spying for Russia. The Lithuanian State…

10 years ago
  • Defence

Lithuanian State Security Department warns ordinary citizens to beware of Russian spies

The Lithuanian State Security Department has issued a warning about a significant surge in Russian intelligence activities in both Lithuania…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

11 foreign spies sent out of Lithuania over last decade

Over the last decade, eleven intelligence officers from foreign countries have been sent out of Lithuania because of their spying…

10 years ago