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Lithuania's State Security Department announces annual threat assessment 2014

BC, Vilnius, 30.03.2015.Print version
In its annual threat assessment for the year 2014, Lithuania's State Security Department (VSD) stresses that the country's security environment was most of all influenced by increasingly aggressive activities of Russian and Belarusian intelligence agencies, which were mainly triggered by Vilnius' principled stance in respect of the conflict in Ukraine, reports LETA/ELTA.

The VSD states that the ongoing information warfare, intelligence operations, and establishment of influence groups should be seen as the demonstration of Moscow's "soft power", however, these means could be potentially used to incite social unrest or to support the actions of persons hostile to Lithuania.

 

In the view of the VSD, such groups currently are too petty and without any external assistance they would not be capable of crippling the state's vitality and defence capabilities," the report said.

 

The document names collection of information on Lithuania's domestic and foreign policy, economy, energy projects, cooperation of Vilnius with NATO and the European Union as the key objectives of foreign intelligence services. The main hostile activities in Lithuania also include collection of classified information on national defence system, weaponry, and NATO's communication systems. Russian and Belarusian military intelligence agencies (GRU) show particular interest in these areas.






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