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WHEN YOUR LOO IS IMPORTANT
Prosecuting Nazis
Continued from preceding page
(These one-day-a-week trips to Ithaca
also give Sher an opportunity to visit his
hearing-impaired stepson, who attends
Cornell.)
Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth
Holtzman, the former congresswoman con-
sidered the godmother of OSI, said Sher
has done "an outstanding job. OSI has
prevailed because of its professionalism
and its competency"
And Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate
dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for
Holocaust Studies in Los Angeles, said
Sher is "very energetic. His commitment
was put to the wall with the Waldheim and
Linnas cases. He didn't flinch."
Despite Meese's reputed dislike of Sher,
many observers of OSI maintain that the
office and its mission have remained above
politics, both in Congress and the White
House. Yet it seems to have more support
on Capitol Hill than in the executive:
Congress has repeatedly earmarked more
funding for OSI than has been requested
by the Administration. For the current
fiscal year, for example, Congress
earmarked $950,000 for OSI above the
$3.05 million requested by the Justice
Department.
And throughout its existence, opposition
to OSI has come from staunch anti-
Communists and the Baltic community in
America. For example, while he was the
Reagan White House's communications
director, Pat Buchanan opposed sending
Karl Linnas to the Soviet Union.
Buchanan equated deportations to the
USSR by the U.S. government as "collab-
orating with Hitler's surviving partner
from World War II."
Sher charged Buchanan with "orches-
trating a campaign from the White House
to undermine [OSI] efforts" against
Linnas.
"Buchanan is always saying Stalin was
"I take great offense when
people challenge our
motives. No one put
pressure on me. We're not a
political tool. We're
prosecutors."
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evil," said Sher. "It's as though he's
troubled that there was someone [i.e.,
Hitler] worse than Stalin."
And some Baits have claimed that OSI's
frequent reliance on evidence from the
USSR has forged "an unholy alliance"
between the office and the Soviets. Askold
Lozynsky, the Ukrainian Congress Com-
mittee of America's legal counsel, even
charged that during their first trip to the
Soviet Union in 1980 to request Russian
cooperation with OSI investigations,
Jacob Tannenbaum: First Jewish kapo convicted by OSI.
Walter Rockier and Allan Ryan, then,
OSI's director and deputy director,
received the Kremlin's nod — "in exchange
for individuals the Russians could make an
example of."
Sher denied that any evidence-for-
prisoners swap had been made with the
Soviets. "The only thing that happened,"
he said, "is that Rockier and Ryan went
there and said we had to take testimony in
accordance with our rules. They said we
could do it. Over the years, a whole process
has evolved:'
Part of that process involves securing
evidence related to Nazi activities from
Soviet archives and taking depositions in
the USSR from Soviets who witnessed
alleged crimes committed during the Nazi
years by current residents of the U.S.
Ukrainian Congress counsel Lozynsky
views this entire procedure with suspicion.
Soviet evidence, he said, "is known to be
fabricated" and deposition-taking by OSI
investigators traveling to the USSR is
done in the presence of Soviet officials, who
monitor the testimony. Also, he said,
Soviet laws allow much more narrow cross-
examination of witnesses than do U.S.
laws.
Lozynsky demanded a congressional in-
vestigation of OSI. The office, he said, has
"overstepped its mandate, indiscriminate-
ly uses Soviet evidence and is intent on
deporting American citizens to the Soviet
Union."
Dismissing these demands, Sher said
tests of Russian-acquired evidence by U.S.
experts, even those representing OSI