From the Baltic Course: The State Defense Council has approved, in substance, the concept for strengthening the control and coordination of intelligence, which was worked out at the initiative of President Dalia Grybauskaitė and which will serve as the basis for restructuring the national intelligence system…

The President’s initiated concept of intelligence provides for formulating clear and definite tasks to the secret services (State Security Department and Second Investigation Department under the Ministry of National Defense), outlining reporting procedures and strengthening the control of their activities…

For the first time, the State Defense Council approved a list of national security threats and specific needs for intelligence information to be used for formulating concrete tasks to secret services…

In the process of reforming the national intelligence system, the State Security Department will also be restructured. The State Defense Council will set out the priorities for the State Security Department, while the Department’s leadership will have to develop a strategy to improve the quality of intelligence information and to review departmental functions. (photo: Office of the President of Lithuania)