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Carter Staffer's Dismissal Asked on Trifa
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman
(D-N.Y.) has urged.
-President Carter to consider
the "immediate dismissal"
of a member of the National
Security Council staff who
characterized as "silly" the
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concern expressed over an
interview that Radio Free
Europe broadcast last May
with Valerian Trifa who is
under investigation as a
suspected Nazi war crimi-
nal.
In a letter to the
President, Holtzman wrote
that the statements made
by Paul Henze, who has
been on the NSC staff si:_ce
the beginning of the Carter
Administration, are "un-
conscionable and grounds
for his immediate dismis-
sal."
Radio Free Europe, on
May 1, 1979, broadcast a
45-minute interview with
Trifa, a naturalized Ameri-
can citizen, who, Holtzman
pointed out in her letter, is
"alleged to have incited at-
rocities against Jews in
Bucharest during World
War II."
She pointed out further
that "no mention was made
during the broadcast that
the Department of Justice
had initiated proceedings
against Trifa in May 1975
to strip him of his citizen-
ship because of his alleged
participation in war crimes
and that the case was ex-
pected to go to trial in Fed-
eral Court in Detroit in the
near future."
Trifa heads the Roma-
nian Orthodox Church in
America. The interview
came under wide attack at
the time. John Gronouski, a
former postmaster general
and chairman of the U.S.
Board for International
Broadcasting which Over-
sees the operations of Radio
Free Europe and Radio Lib-
erty, strongly deplored it
and expressed the wish that
it had never taken place.
In her letter to the
President, Holtzman noted
that she had directed an in-
vestigation by the House
Judiciary Committee's sub-
committee of which she is
chairperson of "the circum-
stances surrounding the
airing of the interview."
She wrote, "According to
evidence I have received in
the course of my investiga-
tion, Mr. Henze, during the
Board for International
Broadcasting's meeting of
Aug. 15, 1979, char-
acterized concern about the
interview as 'silly' and
stated flatly that it 'cer-
tainly isn't serious from the
point of view of the White
House.' "
Holtzman's letter re-
ported that "Despite
strenuous protests from
several board members, Mr.
Henze continued in the fol-
lowing vein: 'Let me state
the White House position on
this issue: Bishop Trifa,„as
an American citizen, repre-
sents an important ethnic
group.' Similar Statements
were made by Mr. Henze at
a Radio Free Europe-Radio
Liberty board of directors
meeting. Not only does Mr.
Henze evidently find noth-
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ing seriously wrong in
Radio Free Europe provid-
ing a platform for an alleged
Nazi war criminal under
charges by the Department
of Justice, but he implies
that the propriety of the
interview should be judged
solely on whether Trifa's
'ethnic group' would ap-
prove of or be placated by
the broadcast," Holtzman
wrote.
She
observed that
Henze's statements "are
outrageous enough if they
represent only Mr. Henze's
personal feelings on this
matter." But, she added, "if
his comments accurately re-
flect the position of, or were
sanctioned by Dr. (Zbig-
niew) Brzezinski (chairman
of the National Security
Council) or other White
House officials, they too
should be called to account."
The JTA placed two calls
to Henze's office in an effort
to obtain his reactions and
two calls to the National Se-
curity Council. The calls
were not returned.
At the Board for Interna-
tional Broadcasting. Walter
Roberts, the executive di-
rector, said he could not dis-
cuss the matter until he re-
ceived the text of Rep.
Holtzman's letter. The JTA
learned, however, that
minutes were kept of the
board's Aug. 15 meeting
and that Henze's state-
ments reported by
Holtzman were apparently
accurate.
"There is no question, the
record is clear," the JTA
was informed by a source at
the board. Holtzman noted
that Henze "apparently
serves as a National Secu-
rity Council liaison with the
board."
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Progress in the move-
ment towards a trial in the
denaturalization case filed
against Romanian Ar-
chbishop Valerian Trifa has
been slowed by appeals by
his defense attorneys.
Judge Cornelia Kennedy,
now a member of the U.S.
Sixth Circuit Court of Ap-
peals, ruled in October that
Trifa should be tried on
charges that he concealed
his ties to the fascist Roma-
nian Iron Guard when he
entered this country in 1952
and when he was granted
U.S. citizenship in 1957.
Judge Kennedy has
denied a motion by the
defense to dismiss the
case. She has denied a
defense motion to appeal
that decision and must
now rule on a defense re-
quest for a review of her
dismissal decision.
the case is
When
scheduled for trial, U.S. at-
torneys have asked for a
60-day delay to summon
and
witnesses from Europe
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