THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
U.S. Interpol Funding Opposed;
Nazi, Terrorist Complicity Noted
WASHINGTON (JTA)—
Opposition is mounting here
to increased U.S. funding
for Interpol, the inter-
national police organization
headquartered in Paris,
which is alleged to have
had a Nazi past and has
been accused by some Is-
raelis of having given the
Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation access to information
—Ibmitted to it by Israel.
2 matter of future U.S.
—iations with Interpol is
the subject of hearings by
the House Judiciary Com-
mittee's Subcommittee on
Immigration, Citizenship
and International Law.
The subcommittee,
chaired by Rep. Joshua Eil-
berg (D-Pa.), is considering
whether the U.S. should au-
thorize an increase in its
dues to Interpol which
serves as a clearing house
for information about crimi-
nals and criminal activities
between its 124 member
countries.
Attention has been given
charges by Hugh Wilhere,
chairman of the National.
Commission on Law En-
forcement and Social Jus-
tice (NCLE), a group that
has been detailing Interpol
activities over the years,
that Interpol cooperates
"with criminal terrorist or-
ganizations" and that the
American police "have
been duped into coopera-
tion" with it.
The House panel is espe-
Prof. Receives
Disputed Tenure
NEW YORK (JTA)—A
Lehman College student
leader in a fight to assure
tenure for a faculty mem-
ber who teaches Jewish
courses at the City Univer-
sity college has confirmed
reports that tenure had
been granted to Dr. Jane
Gerber but not at Lehman
College.
When Leonard Lief, .Leh-
man president, indicated
earlier this year that tenure
would not be granted to Ger-
ber, a decision which
meant she would be
dropped from the Lehman
faculty at the end of the
school year in June, mem-
bers of an Ad Hoc Jewish
Action Coalition (JAC)
staged an overnight sit-in at
Lief's office on March 23
and then delivered an ulti-
matum to CUNY Chan-
cellor Robert Kibbee the
next day warning that a
boycott of the entire CUNY
Qvstem would be organized
(Gerber was refused ten-
\ *Are.
Sandi Goodman, chair-
man of the JAC, said that
Gerber received last week
a written agreement to give
her tenure but it will be ten-
ure as a faculty member at
the CUNY Graduate Schoc:
and not at Lehman.
Goodman said Gerber
will not be able to continue
teaching all of her present
four Judaica courses at Leh-
man because she will also
be teaching at the Graduate
School. Gerber will com-
plete .the required five
years of teaching for tenure
at the end of - the current
school year and the tenure
arrangement will become
effective next September,
Goodman - said.
cially concerned with alliga-
lions that Interpol complied
with "laundered" requests
by certain Eastern Eu-
ropean countries for infor-
mation in a Western coun-
try about American citi-
zens. Last year, Rep. Ed
Beard (D-RI) introduced leg-
islation lo bring Interpol
under the Freedom of Infor-
mation and Privacy Acts
when information about
U.S. citizens was said to
have been circulated.
A recent report by the
General Accounting Office
(GAO) prepared for Rep.
John Moss (D-Calif.) found
that most requests from In-
terpol for information about
American citizens "in-
volved individuals with no
prior criminal record." The
GAO found that there is no
absolute control over infor-
mation diseminated abroad
by Interpol.
Assistant Attorney Gener-
al Glen Pommerening was
unable to satisfy the sub-
committee last week when
questioned by it on whether
the PLO had access to infor-
mation submitted to Inter-_,
pol by Israel. Charges that'
Interpol has failed to track
down wanted Nazi war,
criminals were also unan-
swered.
Former Secretary of the
Treasury William Simon
was reported to have said
that Interpol could not
enter into such searches be-
cause Nazism was a politi-
cal matter. Three weeks
ago, U.S. control over
American participation was
shifted from the Treasury
to the Justice Department
and thus came under the
purvue of Eilberg's sub-
committee.
The NCLE charged re-
cently that Interpol has re-
fused to -participate in ef-
forts to combat aerial hi-
jacking and other acts of in-
ternational terror although
repeatedly asked to do so
by various countries. It also
charged that Interpol was
deeply involved with _Naz-
ism before and during
World War II and during
the war period worked vir-
tually hand-in-hand with the
Gestapo.
As recently as 1972, the
president of Interpol was
Paul Dickopf, described by
the NCLE as a former Nazi
SS officer. The UCLE point-
ed out that contrary to popu-
lar belief, Interpol is a pri-
vate organization, not an in-
ternational police force.
Yadin Denies
He'll Visit U.S.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—
Yigael Yadin, founder of the
new Democratic Movement
for Change, denied that he
was planning to visit the
United States before the
May 17 elections after re-
-ports of such a visit ap-
peared in Maariv last
week. According to the
paper. Yadin, an inter-
nationally famous archae-
ologist, may be invited by a
"private organization' in
America to lecture on ar-
chaeology.
The organization con-
tacted officials in Washing-
ton who said they would be
glad to meet him if he was
in the country. Maariv said.
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