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Rivne, Dubno, Lutsk, etc.). (Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, Volume

1, p. 886)

The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for thousands of

political prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine. Unable to

evacuate them in time, the NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en masse

during the week of 22-29 June 1941, regardless of whether they were

incarcerated for major or minor offenses. Major massacres occurred in

Lviv, Sambir, and Stanyslaviv in Galicia, where about 10,000 prisoners

died, and in Rivne and Lutsk in Volhynia, where another 5000 perished.

Coming on the heels of the mass deportations and growing Soviet terror,

these executions added greatly to the West Ukrainians' abhorrence of

the Soviets. (Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 1994, p. 461)

Right after the entry we were shown 2,400 dead bodies of Ukrainians

liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck at the city jail of

Lemberg [Lviv] by the Soviets prior to their marching off. (Hans Frank,

In the Face of the Gallows, p. 406)

In Lvov, several thousand prisoners had been held in three jails. When

the Germans arrived on 29 June, the city stank, and the prisons were

surrounded by terrified relatives. Unimaginable atrocities had

occurred inside. The prisons looked like abattoirs. It had taken the

NKVD a week to complete their gruesome task before they fled. (Gwyneth

Hughes and Simon Welfare, Red Empire: The Forbidden History of the

USSR, 1990, p. 133)

When the German attack came on 22 June the Soviets had no time to take

with them the people they had locked up. So they simply killed them.

Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells by the retreating

Soviets. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 35)

The first question having been settled – I trust – to the satisfaction of all, we

turn now to the second question: Is there any ethnic group that might have been

particularly responsible for the killing? Well, if the slaughter was conducted by the

NKVD or was directed by the NKVD, then the question reduces to What was the ethnic

composition of the NKVD?

The evidence that I have come across points to the conclusion that the NKVD was

dominated by Jews. Here is one such piece of evidence. The speaker is Yoram Sheftel,

John Demjanjuk's Israeli defense attorney, describing his visit to the Simferopol,

Ukraine, KGB headquarters in 1990 – what Sheftel seems to be saying is that out of a

sample of some 30 members of the wartime NKVD, every last one was a Jew:

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, 1994, p. 301)

Of course a sample of 30 is not necessarily a sample that is representative of the

entire NKVD; 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)

The question that I would be interested in hearing your views on, then, Mr.

Wiesenthal, is whether the assertion you made on the 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face

of Freedom of October 23, 1994 may have been diametrically opposite to the truth

specifically, that whereas you held out that during the interval prior to the

occupation of Lviv by German forces Ukrainians were slaughtering Jews by the thousands,

in reality during this same interval it may have been closer to the truth to say that

Jews were slaughtering Ukrainians by the thousands.

Sincerely yours,

Lubomyr Prytulak

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Wiesenthal Letter 21 Sep 14/97 Altered dates of death

September 14, 1997

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Documentation Center

Salztorgasse 6

1010 Vienna

Austria

Dear Mr. Wiesenthal:

In connection with the possibility of a massive, pre-German Lviv pogrom, Morley

Safer (in his 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom of October 23, 1994)

inserted into the pre-German interval two events which gave the viewer the impression

that the pre-German pogrom in question was well-documented and incapable of being

doubted: (1) the arrest of your mother, and (2) the shooting of your mother-in-law:

SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian militia,

the police, killed 3,000 people in 2 days here.

LUBACHIVSKY: It is not true!

SAFER: It's horribly true to Simon Wiesenthal – like thousands of Lvov

Jews, his mother was led to her death by the Ukrainian police.

These are remnants of a film the Germans made of Ukrainian

brutality. The German high command described the Ukrainian behavior as

'praiseworthy.'

WIESENTHAL: My wife's mother was shot to death because she could not go

so fast.

SAFER: She couldn't keep up with the rest of the prisoners.

WIESENTHAL. Yes. She was shot to death by a Ukrainian policeman

because she couldn't walk fast.

SAFER: It was the Lvov experience that compelled Wiesenthal to seek out

the guilty, to bring justice.

The above passage starts by mentioning Lviv prior to arrival of the Germans, and it

ends with a reference to "the Lvov experience," which invites the viewer to imagine

that the events bracketed in Mr. Safer's discourse by these two references happened

during that same pre-German interval. Specifically, Mr. Safer gives the distinct and

unmistakable impression that the pre-German anti-Jewish activities on the part of

Ukrainians cannot be doubted because among the events that occurred during these

activities were the arrest of your mother and the shooting of your mother-in-law.

However, examining your biographies for confirmation of these two events – the

arrest of your mother and the shooting of your mother-in-law – turns up the following

(it will help at this point to recollect that Lviv was occupied by the Germans on June

30, 1941):

In August [1942] the SS was loading elderly Jewish women into a goods

truck at Lvov station. One of them was Simon Wiesenthal's mother, then

sixty-three. ... His wife's mother was shortly afterwards shot dead

by a Ukrainian police auxiliary on the steps of her house. (Peter

Michael Lingens, in Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p.

8)

"My mother was in August 1942 taken by a Ukrainian policeman," Simon

says, lapsing swiftly into the present tense as immediacy takes hold.

... Around the same time, Cyla Wiesenthal [Mr. Wiesenthal's wife]

learned that, back in Buczacz, her mother had been shot to death by a

Ukrainian policeman as she was being evicted from her home. (Alan

Levy, The Wiesenthal File, 1993, p. 41)

We see, therefore, that Morley Safer seems to have advanced the date of arrest of your

mother as well as the shooting of your mother-in-law by more than a year in order to

lend credibility to the claim of Ukrainian-initiated actions against Jews prior to the

German occupation of Lviv.

As this error appears to be Mr. Safer's and not your own, I do not ask you to

account for it. However, I do ask if you at any time subsequent to the 60 Minutes

broadcast became aware of Mr. Safer's error, and if so, if you as a result asked him to

issue a correction?

Also, if you are only now for the first time learning of Mr. Safer's error, I

wonder if you could tell me if you now intend to ask Mr. Safer to issue a correction?

Sincerely yours,

Lubomyr Prytulak

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Wiesenthal Letter 23 Sep 23/97 The pious executioners

September 23, 1997

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Documentation Center

Salztorgasse 6

1010 Vienna

Austria

Dear Mr. Wiesenthal:

I wonder if you are aware that during the German occupation of Lviv, the Greek

Catholic church, headed by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, was courageous and outspoken

in defense of Jews? Here are four quotations which provide some details as to the role

played by Sheptytsky, and which demonstrate that this role is widely acknowledged:

There is little doubt as to the almost saintly role of Ukrainian

(Greek) Catholic Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. Sheptytsky,

Archbishop of L'viv and head of the church, was widely known as being

sympathetic to the Jews. ... The elderly metropolitan wrote directly

to SS commander Heinrich Himmler in the winter of 1942 demanding an end

to the final solution and, equally important to him, an end to the use

of Ukrainian militia and police in anti-Jewish action. His letter

elicited a sharp rebuke, but Sheptytsky persisted even though the death

penalty was threatened to those who gave comfort to Jews. In November

1942 he issued a pastoral letter to be read in all churches under his

authority. It condemned murder. Although Jews were not specifically

mentioned, his intent was crystal clear.

We can never know how many Ukrainians were moved by Sheptytsky's

appeal. Certainly the church set an example. With Sheptytsky's tacit

approval, his church hid a number of Jews throughout western Ukraine,

150 Jews alone in and around his L'viv headquarters. Perhaps some of

his parishioners were among those brave and precious few "righteous

gentiles" who risked an automatic death penalty for themselves and

their families by harbouring a Jew under their roof.

The towering humanity of Sheptytsky remains an inspiration today.

(Harold Troper Morton Weinfeld, Old Wounds, 1988, pp. 17-18)

He [Sheptytsky] dispatched a lengthy handwritten letter dated August

29-31, 1942 to the Pope, in which he referred to the government of the

German occupants as a regime of terror and corruption, more diabolical

than that of the Bolsheviks. (Raul Hilberg, Perpetrators, Victims,

Bystanders, 1992, p. 267)

One of those saved by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky was Lviv's Rabbi

Kahane whose son is currently the marshal commander of the Israeli Air

Force. (Ukrainian Weekly, June 21, 1992, p. 9)

Sheptitsky himself hid fifteen Jews, including Rabbi Kahane, in his own

residence in Lvov, a building frequently visited by German officials.

(Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust, 1986, p. 410)

However, despite the widespread agreement that the Catholic church headed by

Sheptytsky was outspoken and courageous in its defense of Jews, you have consistently

portrayed Christianity in general, and the Catholic church in Lviv in 1941 in

particular, as being virulently anti-Semitic. I refer, for example, to your fable of

the alcoholic priest in Western Ukraine who incites a pogrom (Alan Levy, The Wiesenthal

File, 1993, p. 24), which fable I have already brought to your attention in my letter

to you of December 8, 1994; and I refer as well to your story of the Ukrainians who you

say almost executed you:

As the shots and shouts of the boisterous Ukrainians drew closer to

Wiesenthal, he heard a new sound: church bells. The Ukrainians heard

it, too. Good Orthodox Catholics all, they laid down their arms for

evening mass.

Wiesenthal and his friend had stood five or six bullets away from

extinction. (Alan Levy, The Wiesenthal File, Constable, London, 1993,

p. 36)

Now if it is the case as we have just seen above that the Catholic church

unambiguously and unequivocally stood for the defense of Jews, then we would expect

devout Catholics to not be among the executioners of Jews. Conversely, given that

someone is among the executioners of Jews, we would expect him not to be a devout

Catholic. Your portrayal of sadistic executioners as being simultaneously devout

Catholics is incongruous and elicits incredulity.

But your story goes beyond the incongruous to the grotesque. You portray a team

of executioners who have been repeatedly drinking vodka – and may therefore be depicted

as drunk. You say that they have also just been shooting prisoners in the back of the

neck, and then lifting the bodies from the floor and placing them into makeshift

coffins – therefore, the executioners are also covered with blood. Assuming that these

executioners did not have a place to shower and had not brought with them a change of

clothing, and assuming that the church bells are signaling the imminent commencement of

mass so as not to leave time for showering and changing, then I have trouble conjuring

up a credible image of these executioners arriving at the church for mass. To accept

your image requires us to accept that the appearance of drunk and blood-spattered

executioners at a mass would not attract notice and repugnance – a supposition which is

erroneous and offensive. And it requires us also to accept that the mind set of

executioners engaged in genocide is so similar to Christians engaged in devotion, that

they make the transition instantaneously and seamlessly – another supposition which is

erroneous and offensive.

Mr. Wiesenthal, I entreat you to either explain and defend your bizarre story, or

else to withdraw it.

Yours truly,

Lubomyr Prytulak

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Wiesenthal Letter 24 Jan 18/98 Reversing victim and victimizer

The caption at the top of the photographs shown below is from LIFE magazine, 11Jun45, p. 50. The caption in German

and Latin at the bottom of the Simon Wiesenthal drawing below was, of course, included with the drawing in Simon

Wiesenthal's KZ Mauthausen, 1946, p. 64. This caption says:

The Gallows

The Marquis de Sade would have been in ecstasy if he could have seen the gallows in a

KZ [concentration camp]. His faithful successors the SS-hangmen had daily execution

fever. It provided some variety, beyond the eternal, monotonous shootings and

beatings. Something one could photograph with pleasure. They placed bets for rounds

of beer on how long the offender could hold out. He must not die too quickly. When

he threatened that, he was bound, and when he had somewhat recovered, it continued

... to the greater glory of the devil!

I refer to Simon Wiesenthal's drawing as a "1946" drawing because that was the date of publication of the book in

which the drawing appeared. A reader using a recent version of a NetScape browser can click here to be taken to a

discussion of the Lviv pogrom referred to in the letter below. A reader using an Internet Explorer browser can go to

the top of the page which contains that discussion by clicking here, and once on that page, can click "What happened

in Lviv?" to arrive at the same discussion of the Lviv pogrom.

January 18, 1998

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Documentation Center

Salztorgasse 6

1010 Vienna

Austria

Dear Mr. Wiesenthal:

In the course of the October 24, 1993 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom, you leveled the accusation,

echoed by Morley Safer, that immediately prior to the occupation of Lviv by German forces in 1941, Ukrainians killed

some 5 to 6 thousand Jews. I have already brought to your attention evidence that your accusation is unfounded, and

that the more likely reality is that during approximately that same interval, the NKVD – dominated by Jews – killed

approximately that same number of Ukrainians. This evidence was presented to you in five letters, dated September 8,

9, 12, 13, and 14, 1997.

That the NKVD was dominated by Jews is not an irrelevancy which I am introducing gratuitously, but, rather, is germane

in that it offers a motive for your reversal of the truth. That is, it is possible that your reason for falsely

portraying Ukrainians killing Jews is to cover up the reality that Jews were killing Ukrainians, and to make any claim

on behalf of the latter seem implausible should it ever be put forward.

What I ask you in the present letter is whether you had not begun a comparable reversing of victim and victimizer

earlier in your career – almost five decades earlier, as a matter of fact – and on a smaller scale?

Specifically, I am enclosing copies of two similar, and yet contrasting, images:

Three LIFE magazine photographs, 1945

Enclosed you will find a photocopy of three photographs from LIFE magazine (June 11, 1945, p. 50) which appear at the

end of a photo essay titled "FIRING SQUAD: Army executes three German spies who were caught in U.S. uniforms." The

story appears on three pages – 47, 48, and 50. There are a total of nine, mutually-consistent photographs in the

essay. The first paragraph of the story is:

During Nazi breakthrough at Bastogne last December the Germans managed to smuggle

some of their intelligence officers behind U.S. lines. Three of these spies were

captured, tried and shot. Last week the War Department released pictures on this and

the following pages, taken by LIFE Photographer Johnny Florea, which show their

speedy execution. (p. 47)

One Simon Wiesenthal drawing, 1946

Enclosed you will also find a photocopy of one of your drawings, signed "SWiesenthal," from p. 64 of your 1946 book of

drawings KZ Mauthausen showing three individuals in striped uniforms, tied to stakes, and apparently either

unconscious or executed. As your book is dedicated to depicting the suffering of Jews at the hands of the Nazis at

the Mauthausen concentration camp, and as your caption indicates that the drawing depicts victims of Nazi torture, the

reader is encouraged to the conclusion that the drawing represents a scene witnessed by yourself of Jews tortured to

the point of unconsciousness or executed by Nazis at Mauthausen.

However, the similarity between the three individuals shown in the 1945 LIFE magazine photographs and in your 1946 KZ

Mauthausen drawing is striking and unmistakable, and suggests the alternative conclusion that you copied the LIFE

magazine photographs, added striped uniforms to the victims, and then misattributed the result.

Questions

I would appreciate your answering the following three questions:

(1) How do you explain the similarity between the LIFE magazine photographs and your drawing?

(2) Do you not feel it appropriate at this time to issue a retraction of the misattribution of your KZ Mauthausen

drawing?

(3) Might it not be even more appropriate to issue a similar retraction of your more extreme, more recent, and more

damaging reversal of victim and victimizer in the case of the pre-German Lviv massacre of 1941?

Yours truly,

Lubomyr Prytulak

2. Israel-Jewish Diaspora World-Wide criminal activity

(Jewish extremists lobbism is behind the cover up of the Israel-related criminal activity world wide and money laundering)

Hassidic Jews in New York yeshivas are among the top money launderers in the world. They use the cloak of religion to hide their work and they use Israel's

exclusively Jewish immigration policy (the "law of return") to escape U.S. justice by relocating to Israel. One of these Hassidic Jews candidly admitted that as

long as it benefitted "their community" it didn't matter whether money was laundered.

The article is interesting in that demonstrates another example of the age-old problem of Jewish loyalty being to "Jews first" rather than their country of

residence. It also shows how can Jews benefit from and get away with crimes due to Israel's exclusive immigration policy which allows Jewish criminals to

escape U.S. prosecution by fleeing to Israel (and in most cases, with=the money). The U.S. government – ever beholden to Jewish influence and Jewish

interest as always – dare not extradite them.

It is amazing how these Jewish criminals can exploit America and then escape its laws by recourse to an immigration policy which Jews claim is "racist" for

every other country but Israel (!)

New York's 47th Street : Maariv, September 2, 1994 By Ben Kaspit, the New York correspondent

Rabbi Yosef Crozet fell because of his big mouth. "I launder money, a lot of money," he once told an acquaintance. "Every day I take $300,000 from 47th

Street in Manhattan, bring it to the synagogue, give a receipt and then take a commission." The man who heard that story from Crozer was, how sad, an

undercover Jewish agent of the US agency for fighting drugs, DEA.

A month later, in February 1990, Crozer was arrested by agents on his way from 47th Street to Brooklyn. They found on him prayer books, five passports

and also $280,000 in cash in the trunk of his car. He traveled that route every day. He would arrive at the gold trading office on 47th Street in the afternoon,

and leave a little later, carrying suitcases and bags loaded with cash. From there he drove to the Hessed Ve'Tzadaka ["Mercy and Charity"] synagogue in

Brooklyn which had been turned into a laundry for millions of dollars, the revenue from drug sales in the New York area.

That was how Crozer made his living. Assuming that the commission for laundering money ranged in the area of 2% to 6%, Rabbi Crozet can be presumed

not to have suffered from hunger. The investigators who questioned him faced a simple task.

A respectable and pious jew who never imagined that he would be interrogated, a son of a highly respected rabbi who headed a large yeshiva in city of New

Square, Crozer broke down and cooperated. But then his lawyer, Stanley Lupkin, argued that his client, a pious Jew, had no idea that he was laundering

drug money. Crozer, according to his lawyer, believed that he was laundering money for a Jewish diamond trader .'who trades in cash" and not for Gentile

drug traders and was using the situation to make some extra money, for his synagogue.

It seems that this argument had some effect since Crozer was sentenced to one year and one days imprisonment. In exchange for a lenient science, he

supplied his interrogators with valuable information which helped them to capture a person whom they had been seeking for a long time: Avraham Sharir,

another pious Jew, the owner of a gold trading office on 47th Street, who was really one of the biggest sharks for laundering drug money in New York City.

Sharir, an Israeli Jew aged about 45, to whom we will later return, subsequently confessed to having laundered $200 million for the Colombian drug cartel of

Kali.

The drug trade is considered to be the most profitable branch of crime in the world. The profit margin ranges in the area of 200% for cocaine and 1,200% for

heroin. The amounts of money laundered in the trading office are larger than the budgets of many small states. The temptation is great. The main problem of

the Colombian drug barons who control a significant part of world drug trade is how to get rid of the money. It is a problem of the rich but a nagging one.

Two major Colombian drug cartels operate in the US – the Kali cartel and the Medellin cartel.

The killing of the head of the Medellin cartel, Pablo Escovar, by the Colombian authorities in December 1993 greatly weakened this cartel which had

controlled the drug trade in the New York area. The Kali people, in contrast, hold a monopoly over the Los Angeles and Miami area markets. At present,

the Kali people distribute about 80 per cent of the world's cocaine and a third of the heroin– The Kali drug cartel makes $25 billion each year within the US

alone. The money must somehow be shipped out of the US without arousing the attention of the American authorities. Besides, the cash must be given a seal

of approval and, one way or another, become legitimized.

Around this complex issue a mega-business has sprung up – laundering and smuggling drug money. American customs investigators have found millions of

dollars in containers supposed to have contained dried peas, in double-sided gas tanks, in steel boxes attached to freight ships. In 1990 they found $14

million in cash in a shipment of cables, supposed to have been sent from a Long Island warehouse to Colombia.

According to records found on the site, that was shipment No. 234 (multiplied by 14 million, calculate it yourselves). The same year, at Kennedy Airport, in a

warehouse, 26 large containers were found which were supposed to have contained bull sperm. The latter was not there but there were $6.5 million. In May

of this year American investigators raided a bowling ball plant in Long Island. They picked up the balls, cut them in half and found within them $210,000 in

used $100 bills.

Despite their active imaginations, the drug barons find it hard to keep up. $25 billion is a lot of money and it must fill a lot of space since most of the money

gained in drug deals comes in bills of $10 to $20. And that is how the match was made between the drug cartels and 47th Street in Manhattan.

This street is the world center for trading diamonds, gold, jewels and precious stones. Hundreds of businesses are crowded in there, between Fifth and Sixth

Avenues. Shops, businesses, display halls. In the back rooms and on the top floors, far from public access, the action takes place. That is where the major

traders sit, and that is where the deals are made. Diamonds, gold and jewels pass from hand to hand with a handshake. The frantic activity there offers an

ideal cover for illegal transfers of money. "In fact, even legitimate business appears, on 47th Street, to be dark and mysterious," said a customs official.

"Merchandise arrives constantly, boxes, suitcases and packages are constantly opened, everything arrives in armored cars, under heavy security and a shield

of secrecy. Now, go find the black money."

"The match between the drug barons and 47th Street," an American customs investigator told Afaai-ii@, "is ideal. The gold and diamonds industry circulates

large amounts of cash. The diamond traders are accustomed to transporting large amounts of money in cash, from one state to another, efficiently and without

leaving a trace, Large amounts of money pass from hand to hand on 47th Street, without arousing suspicion.

"A diamond trader might launder $5 million every day without arousing special attention. it is difficult to monitor the deals, to locate the sources of the money

and it is very difficult to infiltrate that closed field, which is based on personal acquaintance and trust."

Added to it is the fact that in the course of the past five years, the diamond industry on 47th Street has been in a deep slump, which put many traders into

bankruptcy. "A trader like that," said an investigator, "faces the choice of bankruptcy or making easy, quick and relatively safe money. Not everyone is strong

enough to withstand the temptation."

All of that would not have been of interest to us if not for the massive Israeli and Jewish presence on 47th Street. "At least 50% of the diamond traders there

are Israelis," so an Israeli diamond merchant, who wishes to remain anonymous, told Maariv. "Not a few Israelis also operate in the field of jewels, precious

stones and gold. All of them came to New York to make fast money, conquer the market, get their big break. Not all of them have succeeded, especially not

recently." But the Jewish presence on 47th Street is much greater than that.

Experts in the field estimate that 75% to 80% of the active traders on the street are Jews. A large number of them are very pious Orthodox Jews, mainly

Hassids. There is also a respectable representation of Jews from Iran and Syria, usually also very pious. One can get along fine in Hebrew on 47th Street.

There are many more kosher restaurants in the area than in all of Tel Aviv. The place is also the biggest laundry for drug money in the US.

The expansion of the phenomenon of laundering drug money in the US in general, and on 47th Street in particular, led to the establishment of a special

American task force to combat the phenomenon. The unit is called Eldorado, after the mythical South American city of gold. It is staffed with 200 agents,

officials of the US customs and internal revenue agencies. Eldorado, established in April 1990, investigates the money– laundering in general. Fifty of its

agents dedicate their time just to 47th Street.

"It is work that demands tremendous manpower," said Robert Van Attan, an Eldorado officer, "since the money has to be monitored along the length and

breadth of the continent, sometimes also abroad." The target of the Eldorado agents is money, and money alone. They are not interested in drug imports, drug

deals or drug dealers. "We want to put our hands on the money. To hit their pockets," say members of the unit.

The task is difficult. In America there is no law that prohibits possessing money. On the other hand, when a large amount of cash is found in the possession of

a launderer, the agents confiscate the money. If the person can prove that the source of the money was legitimate, he gets it back. That does not happen.

The launderers are experienced. When one of them is caught and several million dollars are found in his possession, he willingly hands over the money, but

asks for a receipt. "The money is not mine. I want you to confirm that you took it," is the common request. Incidentally, their lives depend on that receipt. It is

not a simple matter to trail them. The eyes of a typical launderer are glued to his rear-view mirror. He makes sudden stops, moves from one lane to another,

chooses long and twisted routes from one place to another. Eldorado has an answer.

The investigators follow their targets with eight, ten, sometimes twelve vehicles. If necessary they use one or two helicopters. There is also sophisticated