Since I was cold, I stopped by the Excursion Bureau at the TV tower at about 1 a.m. (on January 13) to warm up. Suddenly an anxious middle-aged woman rushed into the room, accompanied by two young men. „I've just had a call (I checked the time - it was 1:20 a.m.) - they're coming from the Northern barracks to take you. They told me: „Tell those concerned that we're coming to take them." The women on duty (there were 3 of them) glanced at each other and tried to find out the visitor's name and address, but the woman said: „I won't tell you any more - l'm a Lithuanian and Lithuanian soldiers called me. Please call the people concerned quickly", and ran out. I suggested phoning the TV tower and telling them we had received some information which had not been con-firmed yet, and I also suggested calling headquarters. Headquarters confirmed this news and asked us to call more people to the tower.
I ran out on the stairs and asked the people to calmly hurry to the tower. I rushed down Sudervės Street to the sand trucks that were lined up there, found the drivers in a bus, and asked them to warm up the engines and warn their co-workers at the other end of the road. I had hardly returned when a police patrol car came with its siren on. The patrol-man got out and shouted: „The tanks are coming!" The people began to get nervous. Outside, there was an appeal on the local radio to gather at the tower, and also to block the barricaded entrance to the basement...
Lithuania, 1991.01.13 : documents, testimonies, comments. - Vilnius : State Publishing Center, 1992, p. 95.