Career
In 2003, director Jonas Vaitkus released a movie based on his life, Utterly Alone. Opposing the Soviets, he was caught and imprisoned in Kaunas. After the war started in the Eastern Front and Nazi Germany invaded Lithuania, Lukša was released.
From 1944, after the return of the Red Army, he engaged in the underground movement.
At first he participated as a student, helping out with clandestine matters and unarmed resistance in Kaunas. In 1946, after the arrests of many activists, he left the city and joined the armed resistance.
Within a year he commanded Birutė brigade of Tauras district that was active in Kaunas area. At the end of 1947, he escaped through the Iron Curtain as a messenger to the West in hopes to attract support for the fighters and to establish contacts with Lithuanians in exile.
He first came to Sweden.
Later he was engaged by the French intelligence and thereafter transferred to Central Intelligence Agency, where he received training as an intelligence agent in West Germany. During the stay in the western countries, he wrote a book Fighters for Freedom about the actual situation in the Soviet Union. He was parachuted back to Lithuania in 1950.
Foreign a year he was intensively searched for by the Soviet counterintelligence.
Finally he was betrayed by fellow fighter Jonas Kukauskas and killed in fall 1951.