U.S., Archbishop Trifa Sign Deportation Agreement UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE In the Matter of File No. A7819396 VALERIAN TRIFA, aka VIOREL TRIFA stipulate that despite the prospect of a deportatioh hearing, and the costs thereof, this agreement is nonetheless fully voluntary. Deportation Proceedings Under Section 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act Dated: October 7, 1982 VALERIAN TRIFA, aka Viorel Trifa SETTLEMENT I I, Valerian Trifa, aka Viorel Trifa, on advice of counsel, execute the following statement and binding commitment: 1. The allegations contained in Counts 2, 3 and 5 of the amended Order to Show Cause filed by the Office of Special Investigations, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, on August 4, 1982, are hereby admitted. 2. Those allegations being admitted, I concede deportability under the laws of the Jnited States. 3. I consent to the entry of an order of deportation and I agree to depart the Jnited States permanently under Section 242(g), Immigration and Nationality I hereby waive any right to, or application for, discretionary relief; any tppeal, whether administrative or judicial; any petition for habeas corpus, in- unctive relief, asylum, or other collateral relief; any legislative action, whether )y way of a private bill or otherwise; and any other procedure of any nature thatsoever that would have the effect of reviewing or reopening the deportation ction filed by the Office of Special Investigations, the contents of this document, r the order(s) entered in this case. 4. I will depart the United States within 60 days after permission and necessary •avel documents to enter any other country are received. In addition to the efforts of the nited States Government, I will be free to make my own inquiries, either personally or rough counsel, in this regard. Furthermore, I, authorize and direct my attorneys to sclose upon request, to proper representatives of the United States Goverment, any quiries, responses, or other actions that may be undertaken by me or on my behalf in Lis respect. 5. I agree not to apply for re-entry into the United States. 6. The United States agrees that proceedings under all other counts of the Order to low Cause are terminated. 7. I will appear personally before an immigration judge of the Immigration and aturalization Service, in open court, to affirm this agreement and to answer any Lestions asked of me by the immigration judge concerning it, and I instruct my attor- !ys to do likewise upon request. 8. This statement is my free and voluntary act, taken upon advice of counsel. Os settlement completely disposes of all the issues in this case. I have person- ly reviewed this statement and have discussed it freely with my attorneys. I am it now, nor. have I been, under duress or compulsion of any kind. I specifically The Spreading Anti-Semitism: Religiously, Politically Tolerated Outrages ,ommentary, Page 2 1 II The undersigned attorneys, representing the respondents, certify the following: I have fully advised my client regarding the foregoing. His decision is his free and voluntary choice. I further agree that, for as long as I remain his attorney, I will not seek, or assist him or his representatives in seeking, any relief whatsoever as set forth in paragraph 3 hereof, and that I will in good faith communicate with Government repre- sentatives as set forth in paragraph 4 hereof. JOSEPH A. GATTO, Esq. Dated: October 7, 1982 WILLIAM SWOR, Esq. III I certify that I am Director, Office of Special Investigations, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, and that those whose signatures follow are attor- neys, Office of Special Investigations; that we are the attorneys for the United States in this cause; that the foregoing represents the complete agreement in this cause between the parties, and that it is a binding agreement of the United States Government. ALLAN A. RYAN, Jr. Director Dated: 10-7-82 BRUCE SOLOW Trial Attorney KATHLEEN COLEMAN Trial Attorney HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Imported BIGOTRY . Contrasted with JUSTICE In the American Fashion Editorials, Page 4 Copyright v The Jewish News Publishing Co. 'OL. LXXXII, No. 7 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c October 15, 1982 LS. Pursues Hunt for Nazi Criminals Justice Dept. Records Show accumul ating Criminal Lists Hundreds of accused Nazi collaborators, charged th having participated in the mass murders of Jews and n-Jews during the Nazi regime, will be tried and the portation of a number of them will be on the agenda of the Ipartment of Justice in the coming months. Allan A. Ryan, the director of special investigations for department's criminal division, gave his assurance re last Friday, after he had reached an agreement with attorneys for Romanian Orthodox Archbishop Valerian ifa that he be deported and that the charge of his partici- tion in the mass murders in Romania be dropped. Ryan revealed that on the government list of early )secutions are 12 Nazi collaborators who may be due for portations and 13 others who are to have their tudulently-secured citizenship revoked. Ryan added that Trifa, through his attorneys, had ked for elimination of the hearings that were held re last week, in Federal Court, two weeks before the mmencement of the open trial. But Ryan was em- tatic: "It will be on my terms," he told the Trifa presentatives, and those terms are recorded in the fried statement reproduced on this page. Trifa, however, posed as a saint, with the apparent pport of members of his Romanian Orthodox Episcopate, .. en he personally planned a press conference last Friday morning in St. George's Romanian Church on Nine Mile in Southfield. His sanctimonious claims that he ended his fight against deportation in order to protect his church and his denial of guilt was branded as "baloney" by Ryan and U.S. trial attorney Kathleen Coleman. Representatives of The Jewish News were denied ad- mission to the press conference, ostensibly because the paper is a weekly. The representatives were permitted to sit in the church social hall with members of the congrega- tion and hear the press conference over loud speakers. Trifa told the •media, "This litigation against me has actually been enlarged into something far more com- prehensive — a trial of the ideological and political milieu of Romanian history in the. pre-war years, nearly 50 years ago. "To that obvious purpose and direction, I have been made a hostage of my own naturalization, forced to act as a vehicle in the condemnation of my country of origin; and, particularly of the Legionary Move- ment of those years, and of the many fine men and women who gave so much in their dedication to what was then felt as the best solution to Romania's many and complex difficulties. This I cannot and I will not permit to continue." He continued to profess his innocence to any charges that he incited or participated in a pogrom in Bucharest in 1941, and claimed that he only gave up his fight against deportation because of the financial drain on his parishoners for his (Continued on Page 11) - VERDICT: DEPORTATION;