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February 19, 1971 - Image 35

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1971-02-19

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Israel! -Advised- Against Plot to
Flag
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PARIS—Two of the 11 defend-
ants *Vas= rIoniegrad ; ,* con-
sulted• Israel Oirtheir planet* fleo
the Soviet Union, and -Israel, ad-
vised- -agahat Icesedionpisr -*-
smuggled accomt-of theisommt hH
roceiveirt4m-- The
jacking plot
New York-Timm.-
Thoreport contendst'ha
that /mitre
involvement' wasbrought to light
by Mark Y. Dymshits and Eduard
S. Kumetrov, defendants, and by
Oily& Batman; a Witness. Dymshits
and Kurile:ow 'were sentenced to
death,'but the sentences' were later
commuted to 15 years' detention.
According -. to informants here,
the report was based on notes
taken in the courtroom by, wit-
nesses to what were secret pro-
ceedings. •
Testifying on the original plan
to hijack a plane while in. flight
from Leningrad - to ' Murmansk,
Russia, Dymshits said' he was told
not to do anything until Israel had
been consulted by the "Leningrad
Center," presumably a Jewish
group in that city.
11Curnetsov and Batman report-
edly confirmed that statement,
Batman stating that it was Byrn-
shies' Idea and that the

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to Israel had been !remained
•threngh• -a • Nieto twarist. The
Israeli attitude wardeseribed - as .

1101111Mve.
4 Vs* other hijacking plans were
drawn -up, the report says.-.One
-involved seizing a- plane :at night
at the• airport, but. this was re-
'portedly abandoned- because of:the
difficulties. involved. •
The third-plan was the one said
to have been carried out. It -called
for -taking over a 12-passenger
plane while on a stopover in Pei-
ozersk, Soviet Karelia. Twelve per-
sons reportedly boarded the plane
in Leningrad as regular passen-
gers. Four were to have waited in
Priozersk since there was no room
for them on departure from Len-
ingrad.
According to the -account, the
pilots were to have been over-
powered while the plane was on
the ground, tied up and hidden in ,
a tent. The four waiting in Prio-
zersk were than to have boarded
and the plane flown to Sweden by
Dymshits, a former pilot.
One of the Priozerak group test-
fled they left Leningrad by train,
but, feeling they were followed,
Mt the • train twice _and took a
sucieedMg one. Areving late in
Priozersk, they entered the forest,
where they remained until 3 a.m.
The trial report says that when the
four 'were arrested, the other 12
who were to have boarded the
plane-.at Leningrad were taken be-
A Michigan State University fere they could do so.
Struggle for Soviet-Jewry his been
TM account of the trial says
formed to further_ the fight • for .several of the defendants empha-
Soviet Jews. • .
sized
their desire to consider
The organization, formedas-part
themselves Jewish =fin•als
of an expansion program at MSU
whose
homeland was Israel. losif
Hillel, has -the objectives of pro- Mendielevich, told by the prom-
moting awareness of the plight of
cuter
that
the Soviet Union brad
Jews in Russia and motivating stu-
provided a homeland for Jews hi
dent action on their behalf.
Birebidian.
is said to have re-
A March 7 rally. is scheduled to
"Allow me to decide for
protest the oppression of Jews. be-
'myself what state, and not what
hind the Iron Curtain. Tentatively
is my homeland." -
'included in the rally will be a can- region,
Knznetsov, asked whether he did
silent
vigil,
dlelight march and,
not .consider that Zionism had•giv-
narratives by travelers to the
USSR, and the kickoff of long-term ea birth to anti-Semitism; report-
campus projects on behalf of Sov- edly replied: "Zionism has existed
frOm . the 19th Century while • anti-
iet Jews.
David Bale, organizer of the rid-. Semitism has always been in ex-
ly, commented that "The Russian istence." •
The report says that when Kuz-
attempt to eliminate the Jewish
culture is barbaric. This rally will netsov was asked about his nation-
ality,
he answered: :The
express our determination ,and
support for the freedom of SoViet prosecutor noted -that the passport
said Russian. "Yott. did not: ask
me -about the hmeriptiati:)*,,thi
s itlY,.natindid ■
imatiperi,..- but aliput_
•ity, Kninetsov -*poetic* an-

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being.
All coalition parties except the
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The Free Cen-
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