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the Fascist killers that were performed in the Yanivsky concentration

camp, in which people of various nationalities found themselves

Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews.

L. A. Ruvinsky, The criminal conspiracy of Zionists and Fascists on the

eve of, and during the years of, the Second World War, Ukrainian

Historical Journal, 1985, No. 9, pp. 99-109, p. 105, translated from

the Ukrainian by Lubomyr Prytulak.

The above statement, by itself, is certainly insufficient to establish that Simon

Wiesenthal passed the war years as a Gestapo agent. However, it is even by itself

sufficient to lead an investigative journalist to ask Mr. Wiesenthal certain questions:

(1) Was Simon Wiesenthal in fact arrested along with 39 other members of the Lviv

intelligentsia?

(2) Was Simon Wiesenthal the only one of the 40 who avoided execution?

(3) Did Simon Wiesenthal pass through 5 Nazi prisons and 12 prison camps?

(4) How could Simon Wiesenthal have avoided execution, and how could he have passed

through so many Nazi institutions, unless he had agreed to serve as a Gestapo agent?

Had you asked Mr. Wiesenthal any such questions in your 60 Minutes broadcast of

23Oct94, The Ugly Face of Freedom, you would have taken a step toward digging

underneath the surface, a step of the sort that some 60 Minutes viewers have come to

expect as standard from investigative journalists.

I bring to your attention further that the above quotation from Ruvinsky is not the

only reason that we have for thinking that Simon Wiesenthal may have worked for the

Gestapo. Further reasons can be found in my following three letters to Simon

Wiesenthal:

(1) 15Dec94 in which I ask Simon Wiesenthal, among other things, why he kept detailed

notes on the Polish partisans who were sheltering him, and why he allowed these notes

to be captured by the Nazis.

(2) 14Aug97 in which I ask Simon Wiesenthal why the Nazis allowed him, a Jew and

supposedly a prisoner, to keep two pistols.

(3) 28Aug97 in which I ask Simon Wiesenthal why, where other prisoners were shot upon

being recaptured following their escape, he was instead relieved from work and put on

double rations.

It looks very much, Mr. Safer, as if on your 60 Minutes broadcast of 23Oct94, The Ugly

Face of Freedom, your chief witness testifying to Ukrainian collaboration with the

Nazis was himself a war criminal of substantial proportions, a former Gestapo agent

with the blood of many on his hands, perhaps much of it Jewish blood, and who may have

used your interview with him to cast blame on Ukrainians so as to deflect attention

away from his own guilt.

If this blunder of yours is allowed to stand, then it threatens in the end to be

remembered as your chief legacy to 60 Minutes. Would it not be better to finally break

your long silence and by embracing truth to make some attempt to redeem your

reputation?

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike

Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.

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Morley Safer Letter 9 15May99 Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?

But in the meantime, those who come too near to the truth concerning what happened to

Volodymyr Ivasiuk have been the victims of an unusual number of accidents. One man's

wife unexpectedly hangs herself, another man throws himself from a balcony, still

another drowns, yet another falls under the wheels of a car.... But remember, butchers,

God's punishment will descend even upon you!

May 15, 1999

Morley Safer

60 Minutes, CBS Television

51 W 52nd Street

New York, NY

USA 10019

Morley Safer:

Who Murdered

Volodymyr Ivasiuk?

Volodymyr Ivasiuk is best known as a composer and poet,

author of the widely popular song Chervona Ruta whose first

two lines appear below as he wrote them in his own hand,

which song more than anything else made him beloved

throughout Ukraine, and even beyond the borders of Ukraine.

On top of that, Volodymyr was a man of many talents, having

earned a degree in medicine, and having demonstrated talent

in art, photography, and cinematography.

However, having reached his prime

showing so much promise, it was not

given Volodymyr Ivasiuk to develop his

talents further. He was dead at the age

of 30. To the right is a photograph of

his funeral procession, attended by

thousands of mourners despite the

suppression by the state of the

publication of information concerning

his burial, despite official warnings to

not attend funeral services, and despite

the calling of Komsomol meetings, which

carried mandatory attendance, on the

same day. The magazine Halas, on whose

information I rely in the present

letter, states that Rostyslaw Bratun who

was the first to step forward and speak

at Volodymyr's funeral lost his job two

months later. Words spoken at the

funeral by the Sichko family landed them

in prison.

To the right is a second photograph

showing the statue that was eventually

erected in Volodymyr Ivasiuk's memory.

And just how did Volodymyr Ivasiuk meet

his end? His death certificate which

appears below states that he died on

24-27 April 1979 from mechanical

asphyxiation caused by hanging in a

noose, and attributes the hanging to

suicide.

The details of Volodymyr Ivasiuk's death, however, do not support the official view that

he killed himself:

They waited and searched for Volodya for 24 days. Following the

mysterious disappearance of the composer, the search for him was not

disclosed to the public, the explanation being given that such an

announcement would create a disturbance. However, the mass media are

daily used not only to help locate people, but sometimes even their

pets. [...]

It was not until May 18, 1979 that Volodymyr Ivasiuk's body was

accidentally discovered in the heavy forest near the village

Briukhovych near Lviv.

One couldn't bring oneself to believe it. The parents were allowed to

identify their son only on the following day, even though it was only a

five-minute walk from the apartment where Volodya lived to the morgue;

and the identification was conducted with gross violations of law. The

father was allowed to view the body only after he repeatedly telephoned

the Oblast Procurator threatening to send a telegram of complaint to

the General Procurator of Ukraine. The local authorities eventually

gave in with the exasperated reply: "Take your son home, and look at

him there at least a hundred years!" His death certificate reported

that he died 24-27 April 1979 at the age of 30. The cause of death:

mechanical asphyxiation. Hanging from a noose - suicide. The death

certificate was issued on May 21, 1979, and even back then, a mere

three days after the body had been discovered, without any evidence or

investigation it had been written in black and white that Volodymyr

Ivasiuk had committed suicide.

There immediately arises the question that if the composer had indeed

hung himself on 24-27 April, and was not found until 18 May, whether he

could have remained hanging from a tree for 21-24 days. Volodya

weighed 80 kg (176 lb), such that hanging for so long, the noose would

have cut into his neck to the depth of the bones. Also during May the

weather was warm and dry. The body would have decomposed during this

interval, and from it would have emanated an intolerable odour. All

these substantiating signs were missing, and missing too were the

autopsy photographs.

On May 22 of every year let us remember that Volodymyr Ivasiuk became

another innocent victim of a totalitarian regime.

M. Masly, Volodymyr Ivasiuk: Light and Shadow of a Legend, Halas

(Clamor), 3Jun97, pp. 11-12, as translated by Lubomyr Prytulak.

Halas is a Ukrainian-language magazine which reviews popular music and

is published in Kyiv. The section commemorating Volodymyr Ivasiuk in

the 3Jun97 issue was sponsored and supported by Coca Cola Ukraine.

And truly, the administration hated him while he was alive, and feared

him once he was dead. Volodya's mother, Sophia Ivanivna Ivasiuk met

with the first secretary of the Lviv administration, V. Dobryk to plead

with him to permit a monument to be placed on the grave of her son.

"The war took from me my father and three brothers. My sister's

husband did not return from the front," wept the woman, "and now my son

too has been lost. Do I not after all that have the right to

consecrate his memory?" In reply, Dobryk (what evil irony that such a

soulless individual should have a name denoting goodness) pressed a

concealed button and said in Russian to the lackey who entered, "Take

that lady out." Following this visit, Sophia Ivanivna Ivasiuk received

the "insult in the name of Dobryk." She has been in ill health ever

since.

Sooner or later will arrive the day when truth will emerge victorious.

But in the meantime, those who come too near to the truth concerning

what happened to Volodymyr Ivasiuk find themselves the victims of an

unusual number of accidents. One man's wife unexpectedly hangs

herself, another man throws himself from a balcony, still another

drowns, yet another falls under the wheels of a car.... But remember,

butchers, God's punishment will descend even upon you!

M. Masly, Volodymyr Ivasiuk: Light and Shadow of a Legend, Halas

(Clamor), 3Jun97, p. 12, as translated by Lubomyr Prytulak.

Mr. Safer, you went to Ukraine determined to come back with a story of Ukrainians

persecuting Russians and Jews. You failed to find any substantiation for such a story.

You failed to find any Russian composer and poet who had been found hanging in a forest

under mysterious circumstances. You failed to find any Jewish composer and poet who had

been found hanging in a forest under mysterious circumstances. And you were not

interested in a Ukrainian composer and poet who had indeed been found hanging in a

forest under mysterious circumstances. You went to Ukraine determined to prove that

Ukrainians persecute Russians and Jews, and you reported that story to tens of millions

of 60 Minutes viewers despite a lack of evidence, and despite plentiful evidence that it

is Russians and Jews who persecute Ukrainians, as they have done throughout history.

In your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom, then, you sided with the

strong against the weak. You sided with the oppressors against the oppressed. You

sided with the butchers against the butchered. You sided with those who hang composers

and poets and against Volodymyr Ivasiuk.

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,

Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.

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Morley Safer Letter 10 17May99 Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?

It is conceivable that had you not broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom, Volodymyr

Katelnytsky would be alive today. And it is all the more conceivable that had you used

the opportunity of your broadcast to defend Ukrainians against their oppressors,