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He is best known for the attempted defection from the Soviet Union in 1970 and subsequent activism against the Soviet regime in Lithuania. An important outcome of the incident was the creation of the improved guidelines for handling defections by American officials.
How to (Mis)Handle a Defection. A former Coast Guard legal officer looks back 38 years to one of the service's darkest hours—a bungled episode that became known simply as the Kudirka Case.
Oct 25, 2020 · But that same day, a Lithuanian-born sailor, Simas Kudirka, decided that he would make a daring attempt to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States. He would quite literally jump ship, clearing the three metre gap between the Litva and the Vigilant in order to escape.
The United States has for many years had a policy of granting political asylum to deserving refugees and defectors. On 23 November 1970, however, a Lithuanian seaman, Simas Ionovich Kudirka, attempted to defect to the United States via the Coast Guard cutter "Vigilant," and his request for asylum was denied.
Nov 9, 1985 · In 1970, when Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka tried unsuccessfully to defect to the United States by jumping aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, he was returned to Moscow in chains, tried and...
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The Defection of Simas Kudirka research materials contains transcripts, photographs, and other materials related to the attempted defection from the Soviet Union by Simas Kudirka in 1970, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
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Attempted Defection by Lithuanian Seaman Simas Kudirka: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Foreign Operations..., 91-2, December 3, 7-9, 14, 17, 18, 29, 1970...
