One of the most important tasks of the KGB’s intelligence and ideological counter-intelligence units was to weaken the diaspora’s anti-Soviet activities, to prevent it from raising the issue of Lithuania’s occupation at the international level and from supporting the different-minded people in Lithuania. It was also important for the Soviet government to change the diaspora’s attitude towards Soviet Lithuania and to break its policy of non-recognition.

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