A former Lithuania’s Counter-espionage officer from the second intelligence department under the Defence Ministry have stated to having given advice to local officers on the plausibility of secretly taking in detainees put away by NATO allies.  The public testimony is placed on YouTube site, and is prepared by some obscure atoveiksmis.lt portal.

According to the former officer his ex-boss Jonas Markevicius, who is currently advising President Dalia Grybauskaite, asked his opinion over possibility of hosting foreign detainees.

As Lietuvos Zinios daily wrote on Spetember 12 issue, Mr Grigaliunas was the first to publicly confirm that Vilnius was considering the possibility of taking in foreign inmates since an ABC News article on August 20 alleging the CIA bases in Lithuania.

However, Lithuania’s former and current top officials denied those allegations as nonsense and ‘fantasy’.  Current President Grybauskaite has also joined in denying them and publicly calling to establish a commission and clear the air.

The former Lithuania’s agent said in his YouTube interview “I think Lithuania may have established prisons to host Al Qaeda fighters. It is highly plausible.”

According to Grigaliunas, the two of them then deliberated the possibility of bringing in certain persons to Lithuania within the boundaries of partnership. Markevicius allegedly asked him for counsel on technical implementation of a relative plan.

“At that time I was responsible for tending to covering documents, establishing companies and making secret deals. I was a professional in this field. This was a general question, a request for consulting but we didn’t at that time speak about Al Qaeda fighters, but about helping partners, if they were in need of bringing someone to Lithuania and keeping them safe here in full confidentiality.”

The former officer further explained “One option was to work with the witness protection programme under a cooperation agreement. But the problem with this option was the third person, which potentially could leak information. Another option was to use our own resources, that is to found a facility in certain training bases and keep watch over such persons over there”.

Mr Grigaliunas in his interview indicated that this facility is in special staff training in Raudondvaris, located near Vilnius.  On 25 August TV the Kremlin controlled Russia Today TV channel indicated such a place as being the Rudininkai base.

The Lithuanian authorities asked the ABC News to provide them with information about an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania but the ABC News refused to disclose their sources.  A reply, written to the Chairman of the Seimas Committee of Security and Defence Anusaukas by the ABC news states that the TV station stands firmly behind its report and is planning to continue on this topic.   

Asked about the exact locations, he pinpointed a special service training area in Raudondvaris, in the vicinities of Vilnius.