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fonse D'Amato (R-NY) last week
expressed his outrage at being
lied to and deceived into writing a
letter to Secretary of State George
Shultz on behalf of a Nazi war
criminal, arguing that the alleged
Nazi should not be deported for
his war crimes.
D'Amato said he was misled by
the Joint Baltic American Na-
tional Committee that had ap-
proached the senator's aides in an
effort to gain D'Amato's support
to prevent the deportation of Karl
Linnas, a 64-year-old Long Is-
land, N.Y. resident who was a
commander at a concentration
camp in Tartu, Estonia, where
thousands of Jews and other pris-
oners were killed during the
Holocaust.
Linnas, born in Estonia, has
been stripped of his U.S. citizen-
ship by a federal court that de-
termined he had concealed his
Nazi past when he entered the
country. He has been ordered de-
ported to the Soviet Union, which
annexed Estonia in 1940. He has
appealed the case arguing that he
cannot be deported to a country
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New York (JTA) — A group of
Holocaust survivors from the
United States and Europe met,
last week to press the American
government to act decisively to
deport Nazi war criminals back to
the countries where they commit-
ted their crimes and urged that
the expulsion of war criminals
from the U.S. "be openly dealt
with" and not arranged "behind
the cloak of secret diplomacy."
At the same time, Benjamin
Mead, chairman of the American
Gathering of Jewish Holocaust
Survivors, told the meeting that a
group of international experts on
Nazi war criminals has been
named to a special panel that will
be part of the American Gather-
ing of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
in Philadelphia in April.
The meeting, at Lincoln Square
Synagogue last week, was
attended by representatives of
survivor groups from Latvia, Po-
land, Estonia and Romania, along
with leaders of the younger Sec-
ond Generation and the Genera-
tion After organizations in the
U.S.
The participants approved a
series of principles advanced last
year by the Holocaust survivors
and Friends in Pursuit of Justice,
an Albany, NY-based group at its
national conference.
The principles deal initially
with the deportation of alleged
Nazi criminals to the countries in
which they committed their
crimes. That not being possible,
Israel must be approached on a
case-by-case basis for possible ex-
tradition and trial in Israel.
In a related development, the
Holocaust Survivors Association
has demanded that the Soviet
Union set a date for the trial of
Feodor Fedorenko, a former SS
guard at the Nazi death camp at
Treblinka, Poland.
that does not officially exist as far
as U.S. diplomatic relations are
concerned.
The Joint Baltic Committee,
after approaching the senator's
foreign policy aide, Sean Smeal-
lia, contended that by deporting
Linnas to Estonia, the U.S. would
thus implicityly acknowledge the
Soviet Union's annexation of that
country. The staff failed to check
Linnas' background, D'Amato
said.
"We were lied to pure and sim-
ple," D'Amato said. "As soon as we
discovered what they were up to
we rushed a message to Secretary
of State George Shultz explaining
that war criminals must be de-
ported so that they may be made
accountable for their crimes
against humanity."
According to D'Amato, the
Joint Baltic Committee, while not
telling his staff they sought to
prevent Linnas' deportation, in-
sisted there was a danger to the
U.S. violating the captive nations
policy whereby Congress is com-
mitted to not deporting people to
countries absorbed by the Soviet
Union following World War II.
"It is inconceivable that Nazi
war criminals should seek protec-
tion under our captive nation pol-
icy," D'Amato wrote in his second
letter to Shultz. The senator said
last week that "Karl Linnas
Soviets Prodded
on Wallenberg
Washington (JTA) — President
Reagan last week urged the
Soviet Union to make known the
whereabouts of Raoul Wallen-
berg, the Swedish diplomat who
helped save some 20,000 Jews
from the Nazis in Hungary during
World War II.
The State Department, which
along with the White House re-
leased the President's statement,
noted that last Thursday was the
40th anniversary of Wallenberg's
disappearance. He was captured
by the Red Army in Budapest on
Jan. 17, 1945 and although re-
ports have come out of the Soviet
Union that he has been seen alive
in prison camps, the only Soviet
statement on the matter made in
1957, claimed that Wallenbeg had
died in a Soviet prison ten years
earlier.
Israeli Film
Reaps Honors
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's
version of the "Oscar" has gone to
the locally-produced, controver-
sial movie Beyond the Walls, a
story of Jews and Arabs in prison.
Uri Barabesh was cited as best di-
rector and the two principal per-
formers, Arnon Zadok and
Mohammad Bekri shared the best
actor award. The film itself was a
box office hit.
Israel's "Oscar" was instituted
10 years ago. The recipients are
selected jointly by the Ministry of
Trade and Industry and the cul-
tural fund established by the Elite
Co., which manufactures instant
coffee and candy.
should be deported by any nation
willing to prosecute him for his
alleged crimes against human-
ity."
Klarsfelds Deny
Hiring Assassin
Serge Klarsfeld
Paris (JTA) — Nazi hunter
Serge Klarsfeld emphatically de-
nied that he and his wife, Beate,
had hired a terrorist known as
Juan Carlos in 1982 to assassi-
nate former Gestapo commander
Klaus Barbie who was living at
the time under the protection of
the Bolivian government.
The allegation that the
Klarsfelds had targeted Barbie,
now awaiting trial in a Lyons
prison for crimes against human-
ity, appears in an article in the
February edition of Life maga-
zine. According to Life, the
Klarsfelds acted out of frustration
that their ten-year attempt to
bring Barbie to justice had made
no progress.
Klarsfeld, a lawyer, admitted
that he had contacted Carlos and
paid for his trip to Bolivia, but not
with instructions to murder Bar-
bie. He did not explain what Car-
los' mission to Bolivia was or
when he was recalled. Life de-
scribed Carlos as a known ter-
rorist, "a Bolivian socialist of In-
dian extraction."
Klarsfeld, who is Jewish, and
his German-born wife have been
instrumental in tracking down
many wanted Nazi war criminals
all over the world. As early as
1972 they identified Barbie, the
wartime Gestapo chief in Lyons,
who was living in Bolivia under
the alias Klaus Altmann.
According toLife, they called off
the alleged assassination after a
change of government in Bolivia
resulted in Barbie's expulsion
from that country early in 1983.
He was immediately seized by
French authorities and confined
to the same prison in Lyons where
he and his henchmen once tor-
tured and murdered members of
the French resistance and Jews.
Barbie is held responsible for the
deportation of most Jews in Lyons
to Nazi death camps.
Barbie is expected to go on trial
later this year. The French inves-
tigating magistrate, Christian
Riss, reported last week that he
had completed his report on Bar-
bie's wartime activities and
turned it over to the prosecutor
who will formulate specific
charges against Barbie.
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