Since that time. evidence has been uncovered .howing that Kudirka may be legally an American citizen by virtue of the fact that his mother. Marija Kudirka. was an American citizen at the time of his birth. Therefore. the Kudirka case may involve not the right of a Russian refugee to asylum in the United States. but the rights of an American citizen in a foreign country. In addition. Mrs. Kudirkas efforts to obtain an exit visa have been stymied and she has been subject to repeated intimidation by the KGB. The fate of the Kudirkas is of immense symbolic significance to the Lithuanian people. I urge that the Congress call upon the President to urge the Soviet leadership to release Simas Kudirka and permit him and his mother to obtain exit visas. We could give no more effective assurance to the Lithuanian people that their struggle remains our own.
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