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to speak such words in any public forum and still keep his job. Had someone made up the equally fantastic and

inflammatory "The World Jewish Congress has tried to ease people's fears, suggesting that Jews, despite the

allegations, are not genetically addicted to usury," then surely he would have been out of a job. Mr. Safer did say

one of these things - does it matter which one? - and yet somehow he still works for CBS television, reading his lines

into the camera just as if he is not to be held accountable for his statement, carrying on as before just as if he had

not played the leading role in what may be the most concentrated fifteen minutes of disinformation and hate to come

out of the mainstream media.

CBS's behavior since "The Ugly Face of Freedom" continues in the same vein and encourages the suspicion that

those at its helm continue to be crippled by the same deficit of intelligence and of integrity. Specifically, CBS

claimed first that of the 16,000 pieces of mail which it had received objecting to "The Ugly Face of Freedom," all had

been answered. On being pressed, it later revised the "all" downward to 25%. And only after the Ukrainian community

beat the bushes in a vain attempt to find a single person who had received an answer did CBS revise that figure

downward still another notch - to none at all having been answered. Topping that off, instead of keeping the 16,000

letters of protest on file as is required by the FCC, CBS trashed them. To date, almost one and a half years after

the original broadcast, CBS remains frozen like a deer in the headlights of an onrushing car, devoid on the one hand

of arguments to refute the charges levelled against the broadcast, and devoid also of the courage to admit that these

charges are correct - perhaps taking the advice of its lawyers that when you find yourself unable to say anything

convincing in your own defense, then the best policy is to say nothing at all.

I urge you in the interests both of truth and of redeeming CBS to weed out the incompetents responsible for "The

Ugly Face of Freedom," and to direct CBS to offer its viewers the retraction and apology which are long overdue.

Yours truly,

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer, Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace

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Jordan Letter 2 May 7/96 Confusion concerning the Lviv pogrom

May 7, 1996

Michael H. Jordan

Chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corporation

11 Stanwix Street

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

USA 15222

Dear Mr. Jordan:

In your reply to my letter to you of March 6, 1996, I am particularly looking forward to hearing your comments on

the discrepancies between the following three sets of quotations.

VIEW #1: THE LVIV POGROM WAS MASSIVE AND PRE-GERMAN.

SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the Germans arrived, Ukrainian police

went on a 3-day killing spree.

WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6 thousand Jews was killed.

...

SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian militia, the police, killed 3,000

people in 2 days here. (60 Minutes, The Ugly Face of Freedom, October 23, 1994)

VIEW #2: THE LVIV POGROM WAS MASSIVE AND POST-GERMAN.

The Ukrainian police ... had played a disastrous role in Galicia following the entry of the

German troops at the end of June and the beginning of July 1941. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not

Vengeance, 1989, p. 34, emphasis added)

Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells by the retreating Soviets. This gave rise

to one of the craziest accusations of that period: among the strongly anti-Semitic population

the rumour was spread by the Ukrainian nationalists that all Jews were Bolsheviks and all

Bolsheviks were Jews. Hence it was the Jews who were really to blame for the atrocities

committed by the Soviets.

All the Germans needed to do was to exploit this climate of opinion. It is said that after

their arrival they gave the Ukrainians free rein, for three days, to 'deal' with the Jews.

(Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 36, emphasis added)

VIEW #3: THERE WAS NO LVIV POGROM.

From the Ukraine Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C reported as follows:

Almost nowhere can the population be persuaded to take active steps against

the Jews. This may be explained by the fear of many people that the Red

Army may return. Again and again this anxiety has been pointed out to us.

Older people have remarked that they had already experienced in 1918 the

sudden retreat of the Germans. In order to meet the fear psychosis, and in

order to destroy the myth ... which, in the eyes of many Ukrainians, places

the Jew in the position of the wielder of political power, Einsatzkommando

6 on several occasions marched Jews before their execution through the

city. Also, care was taken to have Ukrainian militiamen watch the shooting

of Jews.

This "deflation" of the Jews in the public eye did not have the desired effect. After a few

weeks, Einsatzgruppe C complained once more that the inhabitants did not betray the movements of