THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20 Friday, August 17, 1979
Radio Free Europe Employees See Trifa Tie to Mailed Threats
claim there is a link be-
tween the letters, deporta-
tion proceedings against ac-
cused Nazi war criminal
Archbishop Valerian Trifa,
and allegations of anti-
Semitism within the Roma-
nian Department of RFE.
A copy of a letter written
in Romanian to Popper,
program editor, was for-
warded to the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency with the fol-
lowing translation: "Stink-
ing Zhid! For our Ar-
ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA) —
Jewish editors of the Roma-
nian Section of Radio Free
Europe (RFE) in Munich
have received anonymous
threatening letters, and two
RFE employees there, Jacob
Popper and Edgar Rafael,
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According to Popper and
Rafael, six of ther Jewish
colleagues also received the
letter, and the letter is be-
lieved to be related to RFE's
broadcast of interviews
with Trifa in May.
Rep.
Elizabeth
Holtzman
(D-N.Y.),
chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee,
has been investigating
circumstances that led to
the broadcasts. Accord-
ing to a spokesman in her
office, it has been ex-
tremely difficult to un-
cover the facts and the
investigation is still in
progress.
Trifa, of Grass Lake,
Mich., faces denaturaliza-
tion hearings within the
next 60 days in Detroit. He
is accused of playing a lead-
ing role in the January 1941
Bucharest pogrom. As
president of the National
Union of Christian Roma-
nian Students, the youth
arm of the fascist Romanian
Iron Guard, he allegedly
fomented riots that resulted
in the murder of some 1,200
to 12,000 Jews.
Trifa's hearing had been
scheduled for July 30, but
the government requested
and received a 60-day con-
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with Bernard, Kremer told
JTA he was promised that
RFE would report the facts
of Trifa's past and present,
apologize for the "erroneous
report," give Kremer equal
time on RFE to "speak the
facts of Trifa's past," and
interview Bishop Victorin
Ursache, head of the Roma-
nian Missionary Episcopate
Church of America.
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spokesman
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Holtzman confirmed that
she was given these same
general assurances by Ber-
nard.
In a letter to Kremer,
dated June 20, Bernard
said that he had met with
Holtzman and her staff,
and that "Both Mr.
(William) Buell, senior
vice president of RFE
and myself assured them
that this organization has
no interest whatsoever in
protecting Bishop Trifa
from whatever may be
coming to him."
Buell told the JTA in a
telephone interview that he
was not aware of Bernard's
promises to Kremer. He
said that while some of the
promises "seem reason-
able," Bernard could not
make some of them because
"he is not in a position to do
so."
Meanwhile, Kremer has
asked Holtzman to investi-
gate why, after more than
two months, Bernard has
not fulfilled these promises.
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tinuance. Romania, cur-
rently seeking most favored
nation status, has provided
new evidence in the case.
In June, Noel Bernard,
director of the Romanian
Department for RFE, met
with Holtzman and with Dr.
Charles Kremer of New
York to discuss Trifa's RFE
broadcasts. Kremer, 82, has
been seeking justice for
Trifa for over 20 years.
Trifa, head l of the Or-
thodox Episcopate
Church of America, had
been interviewed on RFE
on May 1 for 45 minutes
by Liviu Floda, using the
pseudonym "Brancusi,"
a Romanian Jew who has
worked for RFE for many
years. The subject of Tri-
fa's discussion was the
50th anniversary of the
Romanian Missionary
Episcopate Church of
America.
This church is under the
aegis of the Orthodox
Church of Constantinople
and Trifa's church, founded
in 1952, is under the aegis of
the Russian Orthodox
Church of Moscow. RFE's
choice of Trifa came under
fire not only because he is
an alleged Iron Guardist
facing denaturalization
proceedings, but also be-
cause his church was not
celebrating the anniversary
he -was discussing, accord-
ing to Kremer.
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Refusnik Barred
From Conference
LONDON — Would-be
emigre Alexander Lerner
was prohibited from par-
ticipating in the Interna-
tional Political Science Con-
ference in Moscow by the
Soviet co-organizers of the
event, who said he was not
eligible since he was not a
member of the Soviet Politi-
cal Science Association.
The conference chairman
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nik still is open.
International organizers
said the invitation was
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