"After all the years of advocacy to ensure that Soviet Jews could come to America to flee persistent threats to Jewish existence in the USSR and an upsurge in anti-Semitic activity in the USSR, the United States suddenly appeared to be reversing to its commitment to human rights and, specifically, to Jewish rights." - From Exodus to Freedom: A History of the Soviet Jewry Movement, Stuart Altshuler

Our success was owed to more than efficient coordination among Jewish organizations. Above all, it was owed to the persistent, two-decades-long campaign waged by American and world Jewry on behalf of and in solidarity with Soviet Jews. My KGB interrogators had dismissed this 

"...newspaper headlines still display: 'No right to interfere in our internal affairs!' Whereas there are no internal affairs left on our crowded Earth! And mankind's sole salvation lies in everyone making everything his business!"- Alexandre Solzhenitsyn, Soviet disident