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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

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1941

15May99

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April 1979

30Jun99

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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

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July 7-8, 1997

01Jul99

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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 a

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 a

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 begi

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 a

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 Vie

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