THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 42 Friday, August 13, 1982 Agent Says U.S. Harbored Byelorussian Nazi Aides JO ° PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The former Justice De- partment investigator who recently revealed on na- tional television that the government has harbored hundreds of Nazi col- laborators urged a crowd of 250 here to ask their Con- GOLDENBERG PHOTOGRAPHY Southfield Rd. at 13 Mile Detroit Area Retail Koih-ei= Meat Dealers Assoc. 646-8484 These specials prevail at all member markets of the Detroit Area Retail Kosher Meat Dealers Assoc. Look for this emblem, it is your assur- ance of the finest of kosher meats and poultry. All meat, poultry and deli items sold in member markets are slaughtered and processed under the supervision of a recognized orthodox rabbinical organization. Starting Sun., Aug. 15th thru Thurs., Aug. 19th CORNISH HENS 291b. POTATO PANCAKES 99 gressmen to open an inquiry into his findings. Speaking to members of Brith Sholom and the Coor- dinating Committee on Vital Jewish Issues, John Loftus said, "It's time that the American people have the truth put before them." While working for the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, Loftus uncovered a covert operation, conducted by the State Department's Office of Policy Coordination, in which hundreds of Byelorussian Nazi col- laborators had been re- cruited for counterintelli- gence work in the Soviet Union after World War II. Many of the Byelorus- sians were later smug- gled into the United States and given clear- ance to obtain U.S. citi- zenship. Loftus believes that there are currently more than 300 Byelorus- sian Nazi collaborators living in this country, a figure he considers "a very conservative esti- mate." And that may be only the tip of the iceberg. "I person- ally believe that the prob- lem is not limited to Byelorussians, that there . pkg. are other ethnic groups re- cruited in a similar fash- ion," said Loftus. He is also concerned that such opera- tions continue to this day. "I was given permission by the CIA to say this much: that the leader of a modern group of war criminals was recently given sanctuary in the U.S.," he said. Loftus said he believes that war criminals living in the United States today should be prosecuted and stripped of their citizenship. According to Loftus, there are currently 27 cases against ex-Nazis pending in federal court as a result of the Justice Department's investiga- tions. But he cautioned that such litigation is "enormously complex," and would not necessar- ily produce convictions. That process first in- volves suing in federal court to strip a Nazi collaborator of his American citizenship, a process Loftus described as tantamount to conduct- ing a murder trial 30 years after the crime. The prob- lem is that many of the wit- nesses are either dead or living in the Soviet Union. And the Soviets have fur- nished eyewitness tes- timony for the atrocities in every country except Byelorussia, Loftus noted. Once war criminals have been exposed and stripped of their citizenship, depor- tation proceedings can be- gin. But the process rarely gets that far. Loftus had worked over a year on a case against Stanislau Stankevitch, a Nazi collaborator who di- rected the brutal massacre of 6,500 Jews in a Byelorus- sian town in October 1941 and had later been smug- gled into the United States by military intelligence. "We had prepared P- case against Stankevitt containing his confes-- - sions, his admissions of Nazi background, and were ready to prose- cute," then discovered "that Stanislau Stan- kevitch had just died," Loftus told CBS-TV's Mike Wallace on the May 16 edition of "60 Min- utes." -- It was that setback, and a desire to return to his law practice, that prompted Lof- tus to leave the office of Spe- cial Investigations last summer. But his interest in the project continues. BAGEL DELI & PRODUCE 6088 W. MAPLE AT FARMINGTON RD., W. BLOOMFIELD • 851-9666 SUNDAYS 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. MONDAYS THRU SATURDAYS 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. TRAY ORDERS TAKEN FOR ALL OCCASIONS SPECIALS AUG. 13 THRU AUG. 19 I SUPER SPECIAL Bumble Bee Solid White Meat TUNA 1 Oz. can, water or oil 1 29 Homegrown Limit 4 I SUPER SPECIAL Smoked Fresh Whole Lake Superior $2 9 9 WHITEFISH %. SUPER SPECIAL I Smoked Fresh Lake Superior TROUT Large Fresh Sweet lb. $ 3 9 gib' CORN c 7 each Limit 15 ORDER NOW DELI OR SMOKED FISH TRAYS per pers. $ Offer 475 good thru Sept. 9 HEAD LETTUCE HOT CORNED BEEF Limit 3 $ Smoked Fresh BUTTERFISH HAND-CUT BELLY LOX 9 each 99 99 lb. lb.