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Russian Communists (by an eyewitness), in The Black Deeds of the
Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian
Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, pp. 123-124)
(18) Some had nails driven into their skulls.
M. Kowal
BOLSHEVIK MURDERS
I am Michael Kowal, from the town of Kaminka Strumylova in the
Lviw Region in Ukraine. During the communist occupation of Western
Ukraine I personally witnessed three arrests in my native town on
June 22, 1941, those of Bohdan Mulkevich, and Michael Mulkevich who
lived on Zamok Street, and Michael Mulkevich's blacksmith
apprentice, presumably from the village of Rymaniw in the same
Region. They were suspected of disloyalty to the communist regime.
After the communist retreat from Kaminska-Strumylova they were
found in the town prison with 33 other victims, murdered in a
horribly sadistic manner. All the corpses were tied together with
barbed wire and all bore signs of terrible beatings. Some had
nails driven into their skulls. None of them had been shot to
death. Their bodies, nude and badly mauled, were practically
unrecognizable to their relatives.
Bohdan Mulkevish's wife recognized her husband, but, trying to
verify her identification by his gold teeth, found them missing.
All the bodies were taken away for interment.
That Same day 19 other bodies were discovered near the village
of Todan about 9 or 10 kilometers from Kaminka-Strumylova. They
were tied to trees and their chests were pierced with bayonets.
These were all identified by relatives and taken away for burial.
(M. Kowal, Bolshevik Murders, in The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A
White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist
Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 529)
(19) Shot the children in cold blood.
Andriy Vodopyan
A RAVINE FILLED WITH THE BODIES OF CHILDREN
I was serving in the Soviet Russian Army. Our artillery unit
was retreating before the Germans in the direction of Yeletsk. On
September 18, 1941, our unit came to a wide ravine situated about
14 miles from Chartsysk station, and about 60 miles from the city
of Staline. The ravine stretched from the station of Chartsysk to
the station of Snizhy. When we approached the ravine we were taken
aback by a horrible sight. The whole ravine was filled with the
bodies of children. They were lying in different positions. Most
of them were from 14 to 16 years of age. They were dressed in
black, and we recognized them as students of the F.S.U., a
well-known trade and craft school. We counted 370 bodies
altogether. All of them had been killed by machine gun fire.
This group of children was being evacuated from Staline when
the Germans neared the city. The children had marched 60 miles,
and, exhausted and unable to continue walking, asked for
transportation. The officers in charge promised to send them
trucks. Instead of trucks, a detachment of the Russian political
police (NKVD) arrived, and shot the children in cold blood with
machine guns. This ravine, filled with hundreds of bodies of slain
children, moved even the soldiers, accustomed as they were to the
sight of death. (Andriy Vodopyan, A Ravine Filled With the Bodies
of Children, in S. O. Pidhainy (ed.), The Black Deeds of the
Kremlin: A White Book, Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian
Communist Terror, Toronto, 1953, p. 529)
(20) Throwing hand-grenades into the crowded cells.
Rev. J. Chyrva was imprisoned in 1941 when the Russian Communist armies were withdrawing from the city of Riwne. He happened to be
cast into one of those jails in which the communists, fleeing from
advancing German armies, attempted to rid themselves of as many
prisoners as possible by throwing hand-grenades into the crowded
cells. When the first grenade was thrown into the cell where Rev.
J. Chyrva was kept, he was the first to fall – his foot shattered.
On him fell many mutilated bodies, covering him, thus saving his
life. Later, when people came into the cell, they found all the
prisoners dead with the exception of Rev. J. Chyrva. He is alive
today, a witness of that horrible manslaughter. (Rev. Lev Buchak,
Persecution of Ukrainian Protestants under the Soviet Rule, in S.
O. Pidhainy (ed.), The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book,
Ukrainian Association of Victims of Russian Communist Terror,
Toronto, 1953, p. 529)
(21) Exhumed corpses were found without skin.
The Bolsheviks had arrested thousands of Ukrainian patriots, and
prior to their retreat, they killed them savagely. For some reason
even highly regarded Jewish authors understate the number of
Ukrainian victims of Bolshevik terror. Gerald Reitlinger gives a
figure of three to four thousand in Lviv alone. Hilberg speaks of
"the Bolsheviks deporting Ukrainians," but he does not furnish any
overall figures. But on the basis of a German document (RSHA
IV-A-1, Operational Report USSR no. 28, 20 July 1941, No-2943),
which I was unable to verify, he recounts one particularly horrible
episode:
In Kremenets 100-150 Ukrainians had been killed by the
Soviets. When some of the exhumed corpses were found
without skin, rumors circulated that the Ukrainians
had been thrown into kettles of boiling water. The
Ukrainian population retaliated by seizing 130 Jews
and beating them to death with clubs.
He also quotes the French collaborator Dr. Frederic as saying that
the Bolsheviks killed eighteen thousand Ukrainian political
prisoners in Lviv and its outskirts alone.
Basing his remarks on an anonymous article entitled "The
Ethnocide of Ukrainians in the USSR," in the dissident journal
Ukrainian Herald, Issue 7-8, the Ukrainian-American publicist Lew
Shankowsky gives the following number of victims of Bolshevik
terror in Galicia and Volhynia: as many as forty thousand killed in
the prisons of Lviv, Lutsk, Rivne, Dubno, Ternopil, Stanyslaviv
(now Ivano-Frankivsk), Stryi, Drohobych, Sambir, Zolochiv and other
towns and settlements. The fact of the matter is that, justifiably
or not, some Ukrainians felt that some Jews were in the employ of
the Stalinist secret police, the NKVD. For instance, it was
pointed out to me by a resident of Western Ukraine that a high NKVD
official in Lviv, a certain Barvinsky, was Jewish, despite his
Ukrainian name. (Yaroslav Bilinsky, Methodological Problems and
Philosophical Issues in the Study of Jewish-Ukrainian Relations
During the Second World War, pp. 373-394, in Howard Aster and Peter
J. Potichnyj (eds.), Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical
Perspective, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Edmonton,
1990, footnotes deleted)
(22) From 15,000 to 40,000 prisoners were killed
In their hasty and often panic-stricken retreat, the Soviet
authorities were not about to evacuate the thousands of prisoners
they had arrested, mostly during their last months of rule in
western Ukraine. Their solution, implemented at the end of June
and in early July 1941, was to kill all inmates regardless of
whether they had committed minor or major crimes or were being held
for political reasons. According to estimates, from 15,000 to
40,000 prisoners were killed during the Soviet retreat from eastern
Galicia and western Volhynia. (Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of
Ukraine, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1996, p. 624)
However, the Membership of this NKVD was
Predominantly Jewish
What was the membership of this NKVD that we see above being so repeatedly blamed
for the massacre of Ukrainians in the days before occupation by German forces? In
my analysis of data presented by Yuri Shapoval, I arrive at the conclusion that the
senior membership in Ukraine of the organization one of whose names became the NKVD
was as follows:
Out of every 10 senior members of the Cheka-GPU-NKVD in Ukraine:
6 were Jewish,
2 were Russian,
1 was Ukrainian, and
1 was other.
Statements made by others support the conclusion that the NKVD was predominantly a
Jewish organization. For example, Yoram Sheftel, Ivan Demjanjuk's Israeli defense
attorney, reports that in connection with his visit to the Simferopol, Ukraine, KGB
headquarters in 1990, a plaque memorializing the "KGB" dead of the war showed that
all thirty of the thirty names were Jewish:
On the right-hand wall was a stone memorial plaque engraved with
the names of about thirty KGB men from Simferopol who had fallen in
the Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets call World War II. I was
shocked and angry as I read the names: the first was Polonski and
the last Levinstein, and all those between were ones like
Zalmonowitz, Geller and Kagan – all Jews. The best of Jewish youth
in Russia, the cradle of Zionism, had sold itself and its soul to
the Red Devil. (The Demjanjuk Affair: The Rise and Fall of a
Show-Trial, Victor Gollancz, London, 1994, p. 301)
Of course Sheftel's sample of 30 is not necessarily a sample that is representative
of the entire NKVD in Ukraine; however the Jewish domination of the entire NKVD is
not a rare or dubious hypothesis, but is one, rather, that is upheld from more than
one direction:
As a Jew, I'm interested in another question entirely: Why were
there so many Jews among the NKVD-MVD investigators – including
many of the most terrible? It's a painful question for me but I
cannot evade it. (Yevgenia Albats, The State Within a State: The
KGB and its Hold on Russia, Past, Present and Future, 1994, p. 147)
Jews abounded [also] at the lower levels of the Party machinery
especially in the Cheka and its successors, the GPU, the OGPU and
the NKVD.... It is difficult to suggest a satisfactory reason for
the prevalence of Jews in the Cheka. It may be that having
suffered at the hand of the former Russian authorities they wanted
to seize the reins of real power in the new state for themselves.
(Leonard Shapiro, The Role of Jews in the Russian Revolutionary
Movement, Slavonic and East European Review, 1961, 40, p. 165)
But if in the pre-German interval Ukrainians were being killed by the NKVD, and if
the NKVD was disproportionately, or even overwhelmingly, Jewish, then one might
summarize by saying that in the pre-German interval, Ukrainians were being killed by
Jews.
I Expand My Summary Table Once Again
The table which I have been developing in my letters to you of 30Jun99 and 01Jul99
can now be elaborated with the uppermost entry:
Date of my letter
Subject of my letter
Date of Attack
Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
04Jul99
The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny
Summer 1941
15May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
April 1979
30Jun99
Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
February 14, 1992
Violence that you might have caused by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
09Apr99
Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
Summer 1995
17May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
July 7-8, 1997
01Jul99
Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
August 11, 1997
The new "The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny" entry in the table above is of particular
importance not only because of the large number of victims involved, but also
because it demonstrates your going beyond the fault of overlooking Ukrainians being
victimized, to the greater fault of replacing the real killing of a large number of
Ukrainians by Jews with an imaginary killing of a large number of Jews by
Ukrainians.
And I Find My Earlier Conclusions
Strengthened
What a convincing broadcast your The Ugly Face of Freedom would have been if all the
instances in the above table had been ones of Jews or Russians being tortured and
mutilated and murdered by Ukrainians, instead of the other way around! However, in
your broadcast you documented not a single such story featuring Ukrainians
victimizing Jews or Russians. Evidence of Ukrainians being victimized was
plentiful, but you ignored it. Much worse, in the case of the pre-German violence,
you reversed it.
Unless you are able to offer some credible defense, Mr. Safer, two conclusions that
have already gained a foothold threaten to climb to wide acceptance:
(1) that your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes demonstrated
your lack of competence and integrity; and
(2) that your broadcast served to demonstrate to Ukraine's assassins not only that
violence against Ukrainians goes unreported in the world press, but also that it is
even buried under fabricated reports of violence committed by Ukrainians. By means
of this demonstration, you informed Ukraine's assassins that they might expect
impunity for their work against Ukrainians, and in this way you encouraged them to
violence that they might otherwise have feared to commit. Thus, it is possible that
you contributed to Maksym Tsarenko losing his hands, and to Volodymyr Katelnytsky
together with his mother, and Borys Derevyanko, losing their lives.
Lubomyr Prytulak
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Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.
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Morley Safer Letter 14 25Jul99 Who did Israel Roitman murder?
"By the time the Banderite's face was turned into a bloody-hairy pulp, we were
exhausted. The Banderite slumped to his knees, then fell flat on his face. We shot him."
– Israel Roitman
July 25, 1999
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
I bring to your attention the following boastful confession of
former SMERSH agent, Israel Roitman
The translation of Isreal Roitman's autobiographical account below, originally published
in the Russian-language periodical Our View in Thornhill, Ontario in 1998, recounts the
experience of a Jew participating in the torture and murder of a Ukrainian during the
Second World War, and boasts that this one crime was only the first of many:
MUSIC
by Israel Roitman
Our View
05May98
[...]
Once, on the occasion of a talk with students, I was asked: "Did you also kill
people?"
What could I answer? It remained only to smile sadly, and my memory recalled the
first cruelty. Afterward, there were many more, but the first is unforgettable.
It happened, if memory serves, in the Zolochiv region which lies along the
Ternopil-Lviv highway (Western Ukraine). The military SMERSH ("Death to Spies", as
military counter-intelligence was named during the war) instructed us intelligence
officers to investigate the cause of death of one of our sabotage units. On the
second or third day, we came upon the tracks of the perpetrators who were responsible
for the death of our comrades, and caught them relaxing in broad daylight in a large
house on a forest farmstead. There were three men sitting around a table with
moonshine and snacks: a thin, tall German, a heavily-armed policeman, and a
fat-faced, unshaven Banderite [Ukrainian fighting for Ukrainian independence] wearing
a service cap with a yellow-light blue [colors of the Ukrainian flag] cockade and
some kind of stripes sewn on his sleeve. It goes without saying: a merry band.
We had to shoot the policeman right there in the house, his abundance of weapons not
helping him a bit. We took the German and the Banderite out into the yard. The
Banderite, a huge man with long hands large as shovels, just stood there with a
crooked smile. On his unshaven face, his eyes darted nervously about like gimlets.
Evidently, the worsening situation was completely unexpected by him and he didn't
know what to do, and couldn't hit upon any course of action. Of course, under
different circumstances, he could have tossed us boys around like puppies, but this
time the inveterate beast could not do so: we were the ones with the weapons.
Oh, yes! By that time, we had seen a lot of these nationalists, as they were
contemptuously called, the "Samostiynyks" ["Independents"] (the motto of the
Ukrainian Nationalists was "For an Independent Ukraine"). These were veritable
beasts, worse than some Fritzes [Germans].
Volodka Seliverstov hit him first, in the solar plexus. The Banderite groaned,
gripped his stomach with his hands, and doubled over like a folding knife. Then
followed a knee upper-cut to the face. A sobbing was heard and the Banderite started
falling backwards. But we didn't let him fall. There were five of us. We stood in
a small circle and knocked him from one to another. We struck silently with backhand
blows, putting into them all our accumulated rage and hatred. We struck viciously,
probably like hunters striking huge and especially dangerous maddened beasts. By the
time the Banderite's face was turned into a bloody-hairy pulp, we were exhausted.
The Banderite slumped to his knees, then fell flat on his face. We shot him. The
German, we delivered safely across the front line and turned him over to the SMERSH
people. (We followed the same practice afterwards. When police, Banderites,
Vlasovites, or Germans fell into our hands, we usually delivered the latter
untouched, but the traitors we executed ourselves on the spot.)
[...]
The original of the beginning of Israel Roitman's article appears below, the portion
translated above shown enclosed in a box:
I Expand My Summary Table Once Again
The table which I have been developing in my previous three letters to you can now be
elaborated with the Israel Roitman entry. As Roitman gives no dates for his crimes, I
conjecture that they began in 1941; as Roitman could have continued his service in the
Soviet secret police for several decades, there is no telling what span of time his
crimes occupied:
Date of my letter
Subject of my letter
Date of Attack
Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
04Jul99
The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny
Summer 1941
25Jul99
Who did Israel Roitman murder?
1941
15May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
April 1979
30Jun99
Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
February 14, 1992
Violence that you might have encouraged by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
09Apr99
Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
Summer 1995
17May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
July 7-8, 1997
01Jul99
Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
August 11, 1997
And I Find My Earlier Conclusions Strengthened
In your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, you urged the conclusion
that Ukraine was a place where Ukrainians kill Jews. However, you found that conclusion
difficult to substantiate. The conclusion that you would have found easy to
substantiate – as Israel Roitman demonstrates by his lack of inhibition in stepping
forward – is the opposite one that Ukraine is a place where Jews kill Ukrainians. What
Israel Roitman demonstrates is not only that Jews tortured and murdered Ukrainians, but
also that even today, even in Canada, they continue to view the torture and murder of
Ukrainians as their right, and they recount how they did so not with self-doubting
guilt, but with self-righteous pride.
To Israel Roitman, a Ukrainian fighting for Ukrainian independence was, and continues to
be, a "veritable beast," and the chief effect of your broadcast was to demonstrate to
the world that your own opinion is not much different.
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike
Wallace.
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Morley Safer Letter 15 27Jul99 Who did Leonid Wolf murder?
Although you have lost all claim to journalistic competence and integrity, at least you can
console yourself with not being alone and unappreciated. Indeed, you are a valued
member of a large and successful team. Grigory Luchansky, Vadim Rabinovich, and
Leonid Wolf undoubtedly know of your work, and they thank you for it.
July 27, 1999
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
I bring to your attention the following Kyiv Post article:
I reproduce the Kyiv post article in its entirely on the chance that it will be useful
to 60 Minutes researchers interested in developing a good story. However, for purposes
of this letter alone, we are primarily interested in information on Leonid Wolf which is
contained in the three segments in blue:
Who is Leonid Wolf and what is behind
government action?
News Analysis
By STEFAN KORSHAK
Post Staff Writer
01 July 1999
In making wealthy businessman Vadim Rabinovich persona non grata on June 24, the
Ukrainian government created a mystery. By simultaneously announcing that it had
taken a similar action against Leonid Borisovich Wolf back in December, it created
another one.
The government linked Wolf to numerous unsolved contract killings. But it did not
specify the link between Wolf and Rabinovich, other than to name them in the same
press release announcing that both Israeli citizens are banned from Ukraine.
That leaves the public, as usual, out of the loop about what the twin actions mean
and what evidence the Ukrainian government is holding. While Wolf could not be
reached for comment, Rabinovich denied the Ukrainian government's allegations in a
June 30 news conference in Tel Aviv.
The unanswered questions are numerous: What led the Ukrainian government to bar
Rabinovich from the nation for five years? What are his ties to Wolf? What evidence
links Wolf to murders?
The ban on the two men also raises larger questions about government motives: Coupled
with the pending embezzlement charges against former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko
and an aide, is the Ukrainian government finally getting tough on corruption? Or is
it simply being unfair to successful businessmen who happened to fall out of favor?
Those questions in turn raise the most unpredictable question of all: What's next?
The official State Security Service (SBU) press release appears straightforward:
"Today Ukraine's Security Service, according to materials in its possession and in
the interests of Ukraine's national security, has forbidden the entrance the citizen
of Israel Vadim Zinoviovich Rabinovich, (passport numbers) from entering Ukraine for
the period of five years beginning 24 June 1999, for causing especially serious
damage to the Ukrainian economy.
"Moreover, on 17 December 1998, the SBU closed the right of entrance into Ukrainian
territory to Israeli citizen Leonid Borisovich Wolf, who is considered a member of a
professional organized criminal group, which is suspected of carrying out contract
killings in the Odessa, Kyiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions."
The relationship between Rabinovich and Wolf was not spelled out, nor was the reason
why the Ukrainian government chose to announce the decisions in the same news
release. Who is this Leonid Wolf?
A search of Ukrainian media archives for the last 10 years turned up nothing.
Ukraine's SBU and Ministry of Internal Affairs flatly declined comment, as did
Israeli Embassy spokesmen.
However, according to Kyiv law enforcement and Odessa business sources, Wolf is a
Ukrainian native who was born in the 1940s. He emigrated to Israel in the late 1970s
and became a citizen there.
By the early 1990s, the sources said, Wolf was playing a key role in developing
Ukraine into an international smuggling hub. His business activities were said to
include shipping, oil trading, narcotics, export of weapons, chemicals, metals, and
agricultural commodities – sometimes in cooperation with Soviet-era mobsters,
sometimes with the assistance of local officials.
Wolf first came into contact with Vadim Rabinovich in Israel in the early 1990s, one
Ukrainian police source said.
One of Wolf's important business associates, the police source said, is one of the
former Soviet Union's most notorious alleged criminals, Grigory Luchansky. That, if
true, could be the link between him and Rabinovich.
Luchansky was born in the 1940s, possibly in Latvia, according to several sources
contacted by the Post. He became a career KGB officer and served overseas in a
variety of posts. By the mid-1980s, Luchansky set up and ran Vienna-based Nordex, a
KGB-owned and operated business designed to launder money for overseas intelligence
operatives.
Nordex's primary trading partner in Ukraine was government-owned Ukragrotekhservis,
U.S. Congressman Dan Burton alleged during congressional hearings in April 1997.
Burton identified Rabinovich as Luchansky's key Ukrainian lieutenant, serving in a
variety of capacities including, until 1995, Nordex vice president.
Rabinovich has stated repeatedly that he severed relations with Luchansky in 1995 due
to Nordex's poor international reputation. He has consistently denied participating
in any criminal activity while he worked for Nordex.
An April 1997 Time magazine article identified Luchansky as "the most pernicious
unindicted criminal in the world."
Luchansky's trading activities in the former Soviet Union encompass weapons, oil,
narcotics, natural gas, chemicals, precious metals, fertilizers, agricultural
commodities, and consumer goods.
Other Luchansky enterprises reportedly include prostitution, drug manufacture,
racketeering, influence peddling and fixed privatization auctions.
Nordex grossed $2 billion in 1994, investing some of its income in enterprises
ranging from a Moscow beer brewery to a Kyiv tire plant, a Magnitogorsk steel mill,
an Austrian health spa and even a Uruguayan car dealership, according to various
media reports.
Luchansky's biggest business coup came in 1993, when he engineered a fuel-for-food
deal between Russia and Ukraine.
In 1995, after meeting at a Democratic Party fundraiser with U.S. President Bill
Clinton and sparking a U.S. political scandal, Luchansky fell under increasingly
intense international investigation.
In 1996 a $35 million gold mine deal brokered by Luchansky between the Kazakhstan
government and a Canadian mining company flopped, cutting into Nordex earnings.
Nordex has reportedly suffered in the wake of the emerging-markets economic crisis.
Luchansky maintains a residence in the Israeli seaside town of Netanya, a Mecca for
Soviet-region emigres and scene of intense Russian mob activity, the Jerusalem Post
newspaper reported.
The Post was unable to contact Luchansky for comment and his whereabouts are unknown.
I Expand My Summary Table Once Again
The table which I have been developing in my previous four letters to you can now be
elaborated with the Leonid Wolf entry. As the SBU press release gives no dates for the
Leonid Wolf assassinations, I am assuming that they took place in the last five years:
Date of my letter
Subject of my letter
Date of Attack
Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
04Jul99
The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny
Summer 1941
25Jul99
Who did Israel Roitman murder?
1941
15May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
April 1979
30Jun99
Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
February 14, 1992
Violence that you might have encouraged by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
09Apr99
Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
Summer 1995
17May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
July 7-8, 1997
01Jul99
Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
August 11, 1997
27Jul99
Who did Leonid Wolf murder?
1994-1999
And I Find My Earlier Conclusions Strengthened
For your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom, you went to Ukraine
determined to broadcast the story – no matter what the evidence – of Ukrainians
oppressing and murdering Jews. In order to do so, you had to blind yourself to the
plentiful evidence that exactly the opposite was taking place. The reality is that
Ukraine is being plundered and assaulted by a Jewish mafia based in Israel. You can
begin your investigation of this phenomenon with the cases of the following three
Israeli citizens: (1) "the most pernicious unindicted criminal in the world" Grigory
Luchansky, (2) his "key Ukrainian lieutenant" Vadim Rabinovich, and (3) "contract
killer" Leonid Wolf. Please note that in your smearing of Ukraine, you were unable to
come up with evidence of a Ukrainian mafia based in Ukraine and victimizing Israel. The
evidence was the opposite, but you were not interested in evidence.
But since the subject of our discussion is not merely crime, but rather cross-ethnic
violence, I restrict my attention to assassin Leonid Wolf, and with respect to Leonid
Wolf, I ask you to note that you were unable to come up with evidence of a Ukrainian
assassin who roamed Israel murdering as he went, especially one whom Israel, fearing the
vengeance of a powerful Ukraine, neglected to arrest and put on trial, but merely banned
from Israeli soil for a time.
Mr. Safer, Ukraine's plunderers and assassins cannot operate in a vacuum. They need
support. They need Swiss banks to stash their loot. They need Israel to provide them
with sanctuary. They need journalists to smear their victims. And so, although you
have lost all claim to journalistic competence and integrity, at least you can console
yourself with not being alone and unappreciated. Indeed, you are a valued member of a
large and successful team. Grigory Luchansky, Vadim Rabinovich, and Leonid Wolf
undoubtedly know of your work, and they thank you for it.
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike
Wallace.
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Morley Safer Letter 16 23Oct99 Fifth anniversary commemoration
If, to imagine a comparable case, CBS management jointly owned a chicken-packing
plant that had been cited for sanitation violations, then it would be unethical for 60
Minutes to run a story defending the plant without disclosing its ownership.
October 23, 1999
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
Fifth anniversary of The Ugly Face of Freedom
Now that we have arrived at the fifth anniversary of your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast
The Ugly Face of Freedom, I think that all might agree that five years has given us
sufficient time to reflect on that broadcast, to arrive at a reasonable understanding of
its defects, and to decide what corrective action remains for 60 Minutes to undertake.
It is the purpose of the present letter to propose that the corrective action should be
a 12-minute 60 Minutes story under the title The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes, and
necessarily hosted by yourself.
