U.S. Asks Thant to Help Ex-Head of Anti-Nazi Spy Ring

NEW YORK (JTA)—Ambassa-
dor George Bush, U.S. ambassa-
dor to the United Nations, has
asked UN Secretary General U
Thant to help bring about the re-
union with a family in Israel of
a Polish Jew who was head of the
fabled "Red Orchestra," the anti-
Nazi Soviet espionage ring which
operated in France and Belgium
during World War II.

This request came after a dis-
cussion last week with Dr. William
Wexler, chairman of the Confer-
ence of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations.
Dr. Wexler informed Ambassa-
dor Bush that Leib Trepper and
his wife Liba, who are elderly
and ill, have been refused per-
mission to leave Poland and join
their sons and families in Israel.
He brought letters from one of

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Trepper's sons, Dr. Ed Trepper
of Tel Aviv, to Thant and Edward
Gierek, head of the Polish Work-
ers (Communist) Party, telling
of his parents' plight and begging
for aid to bring about their emi-
gration. They were forwarded by
Bush to Thant.

Dr. Wexler said that in addi-
tion to his plea to the United
States Mission, to use its good
offices in the UN to bring about
the Treppers' emigration, he
was also appealing to the State
Department directly to commu-
nicate with the Polish govern-
ment about the matter.
Dr. Wexler expressed "amaze-
ment and dismay" that Poland
would give such "shabby treatment
to two people who had done so
much for the victory over the
Nazis."
All the Treppers want to do
now, he said, "is to live out their
lives with their children in Is-
rael. This is little enough to ask
for all they have done."
Dr. Wexler left for Israel on
Friday to meet with a special
committee formed to help Trepper
get out of Poland. The letter to
Thant said that the Treppers' re-
latives had recently reached Is-
rael and that their parents "have
been struggling for a long time
to go to Israel where they wish
to spend the last years of their
lives" in the midst of their family.
Trepper, 67, whose underground
name was "Leon Domb" and about
whom and his "Red Orchestra"

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books have been written, was re-
cently arrested in Poland with his
wife while working on a French
film about the espionage organ-
ization with the author of the book
"Red Orchestra," Giles Perrault,
a Belgian television reporter.
They were released after a
week: the reporter was expelled
and his film confiscated.
Trepper, wino spent five years
in a Stalin prison camp, much
of the time in a cell too small in
which to lie down, contracted a
disease there and has been grow-
ing progressively weaker, it was
reported.
Born in Poland, and active in
a Zionist youth movement from
the time he was 16, Trep-
per was recruited into the Rus-
sian espionage mechanism and
sent to Paris in 1938 charged
with the task of organizing an
anti-fascist spy-ring there.
Operating under the code name
"Red Orchestra," Trepper's under-
ground organization became one
of the most successful espionage
operations of its kind in World
War II.
Trepper, or "Domb," was the.
first to uncover Hitler's plans to
attack the Soviet Union, but Stalin
paid no attention to his report. At
the end of the war, in 1945, he
returned to Moscow where he was
decorated for his exploits.
In 1949, during one of Stalin's
anti-Jewish campaigns and purges,
he was sent to a labor camp, and
released "rehabilitated" in 1955
after Stalin's death. He returned
to Poland that same year under
the repatriation agreement be-
tween that country and the Soviet
Union. There, he became man-
ager of a publishing house for a
while, and was elected chairman
of the Social and Cultural Union
of Polish Jews in 1962, serving
until 1968 when Poland's "anti-
Zionist" campaign -began.
Trepper began asking permis-
sion to leave the country for Is-
rael when Gomulka's campaign
against the Jews went into high
gear and Jews were being dis-
missed from all government and
party posts as well as from the
universities and other positi6ns.
Exit visas were given to some
25,000 Jews, including his sons
and their families, but not to him
and his wife.

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