THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, February 17, 1984 23

Step Up to Israel Conference

CLOTHIER

Shown at the opening of the Step Up to Israel
conference on Sunday at the Jewish Community Cen-
ter are, from left, conference chairman Annette Mes-
kin, keynote speaker Joan Lavie, and Paul Borman
introducing Mrs. Lavie.

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The aliya workshop at the Step Up to Israel con-
ference included, from left, Zeev Sabo, aliya shaliakh
for the Midwest; Sybil Zimmerman, author of the aliya
handbook "Coming Home"; an unidentified member
of the audience; Don Fox, conference adviser and
workshop chairman; and Dr. Murray Platt, who is
planning to make aliya.

American Intelligence Role
With Nazi Criminals Probed

NEW YORK (JTA) —
Kalman Sultanik, vice
president of the World
Jewish Congress, said that
- the House Judiciary Com-
mittee is scheduled to hold
hearings this spring on
American intelligence in-
volvement with Nazi war
criminals.
He said that he has, ac-
cordingly, asked that the
committee conduct a formal
inquiry into the charges
contained in a 1947 State
Department report which,
until last year, had been
labelled "top secret." The
report, known in intelli-
gence circles as the La Vista
report, disclosed that the
Vatican aided in the illegal
emigration of Nazis follow-
ing World War II.
The formal request for the
inquiry was made in a letter
by Sultanik to Rep. Peter
Rodino (D-N.J.), chairman
of the Judiciary Committee.
Sultanik is the current
chairman of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Coun-
cil to which he was ap-
pointed by President Carter
in 1980.
The WJCongress offi-
cial noted that an inquiry
has been made necessary
as a result of the attempt
by Vatican sources- to
discredit the La Vista re-
port. "The refusal of the
Vatican to institute a
formal investigation into
the serious charges made
in the State Department
report only makes more
compelling the need for
an independent and

thorough investigation
into the matter," Sultanik
said.
He pointed out that the
1947 State Department re-
port, whose existence was
first revealed by the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency last
February, called the Vati-
can "the largest single
organization involved in the
illegal movement of emi-
grants," including Nazis.
The report was written by
Vincent La Vista, a member
of the American Embassy in
Rome, and obtained by
Charles Allen, Jr., a writer
on the Holocaust.
La Vista, whose report
detailed the so-called "Vati-
can escape route," was "a
skilled intelligence / dip-
lomatic State Department
officer" and an interna-
tional lawyer, according to
Allen.
Sultanik, who recalled
with satisfaction the Justice
Department's thorough in-
vestigation last year of
American intelligence in-
volvement with Klaus Bar-
bie, the head of the Gestapo
in Lyon during World War
II, said an inquiry into al-
leged collaboration between
U.S. intelligence agencies
and the operation of the
"Vatican escape route must
necessarily be an important
part of the upcoming
Judiciary Committee hear-
ings."

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