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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
equipment, the wonders of American technology in the fields of tapping, surveillance and code-breaking. In the first two years of its operations, Eldorado
captured $60 million and arrested 120 launderers. Compared to the scope of overall laundering, that is peanuts. "That is not the point," say the Eldorado
agents. "Obviously, it is impossible, with the existing legal restrictions, to put an end to the phenomenon. Our warfare is psychological."
Incidentally, Eldorado is not the only agency combating money-laundering. The DEA, the American Drug Enforcement Agency, and the FBI, also conduct
lively activity in that field. Not always is this activity coordinated.
In recent months the Eldorado agents discovered a new center of operations. It is called The Cocaine Triangle. Its sides are Colombian drug barons,
Israeli-Jewisli money launderers and Jewish-Russian mafiosi. The Colombians funnel the money, the Israelis launder it, the Russian mafiosi (who have recently
overrun New York in droves) provide the security and the muscle. A New York journalist recently told Maariv: "The Israeli Jews are ataining notoriety in the
money- laundering market. You need only look at the list of arrests and the indictments of the past 3-4 years, in order to grasp the enormous scope of Israeli
involvement in this field."
One reason for the growing power of the Jews in the business of laundering drug money is the Law of Return with its easy possibility of escape to Israel. In
May 1993, five members of the Jewish international laundering ring which had worked with the Kali cartel were arrested. The ring was exposed following an
FBI "sting" operation, as part of which it established a dummy corporation called Prism, which served the gang for laundering money.
In the course of less than one year $22.5 million were laundered through the company. The head of the ring was an Israeli named Zion Ya'akov Evenheim,
known as "Zero". Evenheim, who had a dual Israeli and Colombian citizenship, stayed in Kali, from where he coordinated the activity and supervised the
transfers of money. Most of the ring's members were arrested in May 1993. Evenheim was arrested by Interpol in Switzerland and extradited to the US. He
is cooperating with the FBI.
Additional Israeli detainees: Raymond Shoshana, 38, Daniella Levi, 30, Binyamin Hazon, Meir Ochayon, 33, Alex Ajami, 34. Many other suspects, to whom
we will later return, escaped to Israel, and there are difficulties in extraditing them to the US.
In the course of the investigation, FBI agents recorded hundreds of hours of conversations in Hebrew among the Israeli suspects. For the purpose of
translating the material, they employed, among others, Neil Elefant, a Jewish resident of New Jersey who had lived in Israel for some time and who spoke
fluent Hebrew.
Elefant translated and translated, until one day in May 1992 he was amazed to discover among the speakers a friend, Jack Zbeida, a Jewish antiques dealer
from Brooklyn, Elefant was in a difficult dilemma. He approached his rabbi, Elazar Teitz, who told him that his religious duty was to warn Zbeida. Elefant then
secretly met Zbeida and told him that he was targeted by the FBI. Alex Ajami, an Israeli Jew who was one of the heads of the gang, was also present.
Zbeida and Ajami hurried to the FBI offering to cooperate, turning in Elefant, who was arrested and charged with interfering with legal procedures.
He argued that one of the reasons for his decision to warn Zbeida was the zealousness, almost approaching anti-Semitism, which he found among the FBI
agents trying to involve the State of Israel in drug affairs. Judge Kevin Duffy sentenced Elefant to I8 months' imprisonment. In the meantime the FBI was
forced to arrest hurriedly all those involved in the affair.
In spite of their hurry, many Israeli Jews involved fled to Israel. Some few of the tens of Israeli and American Jews who fled to Israel on this occasion are:
Raymond Shosliana, Adi Tal, David Va'anunu, his nephew Yisliai Vanunu, Ya'akov Cohen. Most of them came out of the affair with a lot of money which
they also took to Israel.
The story of Adi Tal is worthy of elaboration. He is an impressive youth, handsome, with a good record in the army, a son of a fine Israeli family, formerly a
security guard at El Al. All that did not hinder Tal from becoming involved in laundering drug money in 1988. In March 1988 the American authorities
arrested I I members of the laundering ring, including Tal and his good friend Nir Goldstein, also an Israeli.
The investigators at the time said that Tal and his friends had operated cautiously, used aliases and codes and lived in constant fear. They would receive large
amounts of money from Colombian couriers, divide the money into sums of $10,000 (any amount over 10,000 dollars that is deposited in an American bank
requires a report), deposit the sums in banks and convert them into travelers' checks which they sent, by means of international couriers, to a dummy
corporation in Panama. The most popular code which Tal's gang used was taken from the diamond industry. When information was transmitted about the
transfer of a diamond of 30.4 carats, it meant the sum of $30,400. Tal worked for Jose Satro, the money launderer of the Kali cartel. The Colombians
constantly pressured him to increase the scope of the laundering.
Tal was afraid. "He lived in constant fear, his bags were always packed and he was prepared to flee at any minute to Israel," one investigator said.
An important member of Tal's laundering ring was Rabbi Shalom Leviatan, a Lubavitch Hassad, head of their branch in Seattle. It is assumed that all the
considerable political power of these Hassids and of their rebbe (then alive) was exerted in favor of that laundering ring.
"My intentions were good," Leviatan said after he was captured. "A person learns from experience," he added. According to him, he did not know that he
was laundering drug money and he was certain that he helped Iranian Jews trying to smuggle their money out of Iran. Leviatan got out cheaply and was
sentenced to 30 days' community service. Tal, who confessed to laundering $10 million, was sentenced to 52 months' imprisonment. He served his sentence
at Danbury jail in Connecticut but he did not learn his lesson. When he was released, he joined a gang which was captured in the FBI's "sting" operation. This
time he managed to flee to Israel where he apparently remains to this day.
The gold and diamond industry has recently become the favorite of the drug barons, due to the numerous possibilities for laundering which it contains. One of
the popular methods is laundering by means of trading in gold. This is how it works. The drug money is converted into gold, which is smuggled to Colombia,
from where it is exported to Milano and used to make jewelry which then legitimately returns to 47th Street. "The funniest thing in this business," say the
investigators, "is that the jewelry comes here under favored import conditions because the gold seemingly originates from Colombia and that state possesses
favored terms of trade with tile US." There are also other methods. Drug money is deposited in the accounts of diamond merchants as though it were their
profits and is later transferred to Colonibia.
Sophisticated diamond deals are made between various parties with the aiin of "releasing" large amounts of money on the side. Sums of less than $10,000 are
deposited in various bank accounts, converted into travelers' checks and then transported to their final destination.
But in spite of the ingenuity, undoubtedly one of the most popular and
successful ways to launder money is through Jewish religious institutions, such as yeshivas and synagogues. Since the majority of the 47th Street gold and
diamond merchants are religious Jews the process is made easier. The Jewish religious institutions badly need funds. The Colombian drug traders can be
generous. They transfer their drug money as donations, which go to the Jewish religious institutions one way and come out by the other way back to the
donors. On the way, the synagogue or yeshiva obtains a respectable percentage for its pious uses. Everyone is happy, the drug barons who launder their
money quickly and efficiently and the synagogue or yeshiva which makes easy money.
The first laundering operation in which a Jewish institute in New York was involved was exposed in 1984. A ring which laundered about $23 million while
making a profit of $2 million operated at the oldest yeshiva in the city, Tifereth Yerushalayim, located in Manhattan. The laundering was performed for the
Kali cartel. The contact man was David Va'anunu, mentioned in the context of the Prism affair, who worked with the cartel's major launderer, Jose Satro.
The yeshiva's representative was a very pious Hassid, Mendel Goldenberger, who daily received cash from Va'anunu and deposited the money in the
yeshiva's accounts.
Goldenberger, who claimed not to have known the source of the money, was convicted of forging bank documents and given five years' suspended
imprisonment. Va'anunu was convicted, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment but released much earlier after he became an informer for the DEA. Later, as
was stated, he ran into trouble again and fled the US. Nine persons were convicted in that affair, including Rabbi Israel Eidelman, Vice President of the
yeshiva and some of its dignitaries. Tiferet Yer-ushalayim faced financial difficulties at that time. It leaders attempted to maintain the students by paying them
from the laundered drug profits.
The phenomenon, incidentally, is very common among New York Jews. Many Jewish congregations are dying because their members are leaving the city or
their former neighborhoods. Thus, the congregations are losing their sources of income and facing large debts. In that situation the road is short for the
synagogue or yeshiva to launder drug money as a pious duty, since it means easy money and lots of it. "Laundering money is extremely beneficial to the
yeshivas and other Jewish religious institutions," said a source close to the investigation. "They are in a difficult situation and therefore they turn a blind eye to
the drug problem. They don't ask what the source of the money is as long as it keeps coming in."
The attitude of the pious Jewish community, according to the same source, is: "Drugs are sold anyway. As long as it does not harm our own community and
only does good for it, it doesn't matter if we benefit from drug trade." The role of the Israelis is, in many cases, to make the connection between the religious
Jewish communities of New York and the Colombians.
The Colombians are more satisfied with this method of laundering than with any other because, for political reasons, it is a relatively secure way of which it
could be initially assumed that it was not going to be forcibly investigated by the US authorities. Only in July 1990 the situation began to change.
The Federal authorities renewed an investigation of some Williamsburg Hassids, owners of jewelry shops on 47th Street, who were suspected of laundering
drug money. The investigation focused on the brothers Naftali, Naiklosh and Yitzhak Slilesinger, and on Ya'akov Shlesinger (Naftali's son) and Milon
Jakloby, his nephew. The investigators found evidence of close connections between the Slilesingers and the Andonian brothers, members of a Colombian
family accused of laundering, almost one billion dollars. The Shlesingers were suspected of laundering money by means of a subsidiary called Bali, through
checks drawn from the account of "Camp Yereim" ["Camp of the Pious]" a Hassidic summer camp in the Catskills.
Camp Yereim denies any connection with these checks. On April 7 of this year, Rabbi Abraham Lau, a prominent Hassid from "Magen Abraham" synagogue
in Los Angeles was convicted of conspiring to launder drug money. Lau is married to the niece of the Satmar Rebbe, Moshe Teitlebaumi, who wields
enormous political influence in New York State.
Unfortunately, Lau told an undercover FBI agent about a "sacred network" of Satmar Hassids in which other Orthodox Jews had also participated. The
"sacred network", whose membership was strictly limited to pious Jews, operated in the 47th Street area in New York and was capable of laundering up to
$5 million weekly, thanks to its widespread contacts with Jewish charitable institutions.
Unfortunately, law enforcement agents in New York do not believe that the "sacred network" and the many other Jewish laundering rings have any sanctity.
In the past year the Federal activity concerning Israelis and Jews on 47th Street has greatly increased. The investigators now employ the services of many
Hebrew translators since the rings, even if composed of native American Jews, employ only "the sacred language" for their operations.
Aharon Sharir is, undoubtedly, the major Israeli launderer. He was born in Iraq about 45 years ago, immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of one
year, graduated from an Israeli high school, served with distinction in the army and became an expert in fixing delicate mechanical instruments used to mend
gold jewelry. In 1979, Sharir came to New York on a tourist visa with $6,000 in his pocket. He went into the gold business, established a small plant for
manufacturing gold jewelry and did well. Then, through another Israeli diamond trader, he discovered the laundering business. Sharir reached a laundering
activity of about $160,000 per day, six days per week (laundering is not done on the Sabbath), but in 1985 his wings were clipped when he was accused of
having swindled a New York bank to the tune of $3 million. He quickly returned the money and was sentenced to a fine and a suspended prison sentence.
In 1988 Sharir's laundering activities reached amazing heights. His gold shop on 47tll Street became one of the greatest laundering centers in the entire US.
"Three times a week," Sharir told the court at one of the many trials in which he is now testifying, "we received the cash. It used to arrive in canvas sacks, in
cardboard boxes or in suitcases. Sometimes there were a million dollars in one shipment."
Roy Lopez, representing the Colombian cartels, would arrive from Miami equipped with a document sent from Colombia which contained detailed coded
instructions about where to send the money. "Even with automatic money-counting machines it was difficult to count the money," Sharir testified. "It arrived in
bills of 5, 10 and 20 dollars. The bills, most of which had been used to sniff cocaine, had a strong odor of coke. A real stink. My employees could not stand
it. Every 2-3 hours they had to take a break, go out for some fresh air, so as not to get ill."
Sharir's role was to see to it that the money would be transported out of the US and arrive in the bank accounts of the Colombian cartels in Panama and in
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
equipment, the wonders of American technology in the fields of tapping, surveillance and code-breaking. In the first two years of its operations, Eldorado
captured $60 million and arrested 120 launderers. Compared to the scope of overall laundering, that is peanuts. "That is not the point," say the Eldorado
agents. "Obviously, it is impossible, with the existing legal restrictions, to put an end to the phenomenon. Our warfare is psychological."
Incidentally, Eldorado is not the only agency combating money-laundering. The DEA, the American Drug Enforcement Agency, and the FBI, also conduct
lively activity in that field. Not always is this activity coordinated.
In recent months the Eldorado agents discovered a new center of operations. It is called The Cocaine Triangle. Its sides are Colombian drug barons,
Israeli-Jewisli money launderers and Jewish-Russian mafiosi. The Colombians funnel the money, the Israelis launder it, the Russian mafiosi (who have recently
overrun New York in droves) provide the security and the muscle. A New York journalist recently told Maariv: "The Israeli Jews are ataining notoriety in the
money- laundering market. You need only look at the list of arrests and the indictments of the past 3-4 years, in order to grasp the enormous scope of Israeli
involvement in this field."
One reason for the growing power of the Jews in the business of laundering drug money is the Law of Return with its easy possibility of escape to Israel. In
May 1993, five members of the Jewish international laundering ring which had worked with the Kali cartel were arrested. The ring was exposed following an
FBI "sting" operation, as part of which it established a dummy corporation called Prism, which served the gang for laundering money.
In the course of less than one year $22.5 million were laundered through the company. The head of the ring was an Israeli named Zion Ya'akov Evenheim,
known as "Zero". Evenheim, who had a dual Israeli and Colombian citizenship, stayed in Kali, from where he coordinated the activity and supervised the
transfers of money. Most of the ring's members were arrested in May 1993. Evenheim was arrested by Interpol in Switzerland and extradited to the US. He
is cooperating with the FBI.
Additional Israeli detainees: Raymond Shoshana, 38, Daniella Levi, 30, Binyamin Hazon, Meir Ochayon, 33, Alex Ajami, 34. Many other suspects, to whom
we will later return, escaped to Israel, and there are difficulties in extraditing them to the US.
In the course of the investigation, FBI agents recorded hundreds of hours of conversations in Hebrew among the Israeli suspects. For the purpose of
translating the material, they employed, among others, Neil Elefant, a Jewish resident of New Jersey who had lived in Israel for some time and who spoke
fluent Hebrew.
Elefant translated and translated, until one day in May 1992 he was amazed to discover among the speakers a friend, Jack Zbeida, a Jewish antiques dealer
from Brooklyn, Elefant was in a difficult dilemma. He approached his rabbi, Elazar Teitz, who told him that his religious duty was to warn Zbeida. Elefant then
secretly met Zbeida and told him that he was targeted by the FBI. Alex Ajami, an Israeli Jew who was one of the heads of the gang, was also present.
Zbeida and Ajami hurried to the FBI offering to cooperate, turning in Elefant, who was arrested and charged with interfering with legal procedures.
He argued that one of the reasons for his decision to warn Zbeida was the zealousness, almost approaching anti-Semitism, which he found among the FBI
agents trying to involve the State of Israel in drug affairs. Judge Kevin Duffy sentenced Elefant to I8 months' imprisonment. In the meantime the FBI was
forced to arrest hurriedly all those involved in the affair.
In spite of their hurry, many Israeli Jews involved fled to Israel. Some few of the tens of Israeli and American Jews who fled to Israel on this occasion are:
Raymond Shosliana, Adi Tal, David Va'anunu, his nephew Yisliai Vanunu, Ya'akov Cohen. Most of them came out of the affair with a lot of money which
they also took to Israel.
The story of Adi Tal is worthy of elaboration. He is an impressive youth, handsome, with a good record in the army, a son of a fine Israeli family, formerly a
security guard at El Al. All that did not hinder Tal from becoming involved in laundering drug money in 1988. In March 1988 the American authorities
arrested I I members of the laundering ring, including Tal and his good friend Nir Goldstein, also an Israeli.
The investigators at the time said that Tal and his friends had operated cautiously, used aliases and codes and lived in constant fear. They would receive large
amounts of money from Colombian couriers, divide the money into sums of $10,000 (any amount over 10,000 dollars that is deposited in an American bank
requires a report), deposit the sums in banks and convert them into travelers' checks which they sent, by means of international couriers, to a dummy
corporation in Panama. The most popular code which Tal's gang used was taken from the diamond industry. When information was transmitted about the
transfer of a diamond of 30.4 carats, it meant the sum of $30,400. Tal worked for Jose Satro, the money launderer of the Kali cartel. The Colombians
constantly pressured him to increase the scope of the laundering.
Tal was afraid. "He lived in constant fear, his bags were always packed and he was prepared to flee at any minute to Israel," one investigator said.
An important member of Tal's laundering ring was Rabbi Shalom Leviatan, a Lubavitch Hassad, head of their branch in Seattle. It is assumed that all the
considerable political power of these Hassids and of their rebbe (then alive) was exerted in favor of that laundering ring.
"My intentions were good," Leviatan said after he was captured. "A person learns from experience," he added. According to him, he did not know that he
was laundering drug money and he was certain that he helped Iranian Jews trying to smuggle their money out of Iran. Leviatan got out cheaply and was
sentenced to 30 days' community service. Tal, who confessed to laundering $10 million, was sentenced to 52 months' imprisonment. He served his sentence
at Danbury jail in Connecticut but he did not learn his lesson. When he was released, he joined a gang which was captured in the FBI's "sting" operation. This
time he managed to flee to Israel where he apparently remains to this day.
The gold and diamond industry has recently become the favorite of the drug barons, due to the numerous possibilities for laundering which it contains. One of
the popular methods is laundering by means of trading in gold. This is how it works. The drug money is converted into gold, which is smuggled to Colombia,
from where it is exported to Milano and used to make jewelry which then legitimately returns to 47th Street. "The funniest thing in this business," say the
investigators, "is that the jewelry comes here under favored import conditions because the gold seemingly originates from Colombia and that state possesses
favored terms of trade with tile US." There are also other methods. Drug money is deposited in the accounts of diamond merchants as though it were their
profits and is later transferred to Colonibia.
Sophisticated diamond deals are made between various parties with the aiin of "releasing" large amounts of money on the side. Sums of less than $10,000 are
deposited in various bank accounts, converted into travelers' checks and then transported to their final destination.
But in spite of the ingenuity, undoubtedly one of the most popular and
successful ways to launder money is through Jewish religious institutions, such as yeshivas and synagogues. Since the majority of the 47th Street gold and
diamond merchants are religious Jews the process is made easier. The Jewish religious institutions badly need funds. The Colombian drug traders can be
generous. They transfer their drug money as donations, which go to the Jewish religious institutions one way and come out by the other way back to the
donors. On the way, the synagogue or yeshiva obtains a respectable percentage for its pious uses. Everyone is happy, the drug barons who launder their
money quickly and efficiently and the synagogue or yeshiva which makes easy money.
The first laundering operation in which a Jewish institute in New York was involved was exposed in 1984. A ring which laundered about $23 million while
making a profit of $2 million operated at the oldest yeshiva in the city, Tifereth Yerushalayim, located in Manhattan. The laundering was performed for the
Kali cartel. The contact man was David Va'anunu, mentioned in the context of the Prism affair, who worked with the cartel's major launderer, Jose Satro.
The yeshiva's representative was a very pious Hassid, Mendel Goldenberger, who daily received cash from Va'anunu and deposited the money in the
yeshiva's accounts.
Goldenberger, who claimed not to have known the source of the money, was convicted of forging bank documents and given five years' suspended
imprisonment. Va'anunu was convicted, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment but released much earlier after he became an informer for the DEA. Later, as
was stated, he ran into trouble again and fled the US. Nine persons were convicted in that affair, including Rabbi Israel Eidelman, Vice President of the
yeshiva and some of its dignitaries. Tiferet Yer-ushalayim faced financial difficulties at that time. It leaders attempted to maintain the students by paying them
from the laundered drug profits.
The phenomenon, incidentally, is very common among New York Jews. Many Jewish congregations are dying because their members are leaving the city or
their former neighborhoods. Thus, the congregations are losing their sources of income and facing large debts. In that situation the road is short for the
synagogue or yeshiva to launder drug money as a pious duty, since it means easy money and lots of it. "Laundering money is extremely beneficial to the
yeshivas and other Jewish religious institutions," said a source close to the investigation. "They are in a difficult situation and therefore they turn a blind eye to
the drug problem. They don't ask what the source of the money is as long as it keeps coming in."
The attitude of the pious Jewish community, according to the same source, is: "Drugs are sold anyway. As long as it does not harm our own community and
only does good for it, it doesn't matter if we benefit from drug trade." The role of the Israelis is, in many cases, to make the connection between the religious
Jewish communities of New York and the Colombians.
The Colombians are more satisfied with this method of laundering than with any other because, for political reasons, it is a relatively secure way of which it
could be initially assumed that it was not going to be forcibly investigated by the US authorities. Only in July 1990 the situation began to change.
The Federal authorities renewed an investigation of some Williamsburg Hassids, owners of jewelry shops on 47th Street, who were suspected of laundering
drug money. The investigation focused on the brothers Naftali, Naiklosh and Yitzhak Slilesinger, and on Ya'akov Shlesinger (Naftali's son) and Milon
Jakloby, his nephew. The investigators found evidence of close connections between the Slilesingers and the Andonian brothers, members of a Colombian
family accused of laundering, almost one billion dollars. The Shlesingers were suspected of laundering money by means of a subsidiary called Bali, through
checks drawn from the account of "Camp Yereim" ["Camp of the Pious]" a Hassidic summer camp in the Catskills.
Camp Yereim denies any connection with these checks. On April 7 of this year, Rabbi Abraham Lau, a prominent Hassid from "Magen Abraham" synagogue
in Los Angeles was convicted of conspiring to launder drug money. Lau is married to the niece of the Satmar Rebbe, Moshe Teitlebaumi, who wields
enormous political influence in New York State.
Unfortunately, Lau told an undercover FBI agent about a "sacred network" of Satmar Hassids in which other Orthodox Jews had also participated. The
"sacred network", whose membership was strictly limited to pious Jews, operated in the 47th Street area in New York and was capable of laundering up to
$5 million weekly, thanks to its widespread contacts with Jewish charitable institutions.
Unfortunately, law enforcement agents in New York do not believe that the "sacred network" and the many other Jewish laundering rings have any sanctity.
In the past year the Federal activity concerning Israelis and Jews on 47th Street has greatly increased. The investigators now employ the services of many
Hebrew translators since the rings, even if composed of native American Jews, employ only "the sacred language" for their operations.
Aharon Sharir is, undoubtedly, the major Israeli launderer. He was born in Iraq about 45 years ago, immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of one
year, graduated from an Israeli high school, served with distinction in the army and became an expert in fixing delicate mechanical instruments used to mend
gold jewelry. In 1979, Sharir came to New York on a tourist visa with $6,000 in his pocket. He went into the gold business, established a small plant for
manufacturing gold jewelry and did well. Then, through another Israeli diamond trader, he discovered the laundering business. Sharir reached a laundering
activity of about $160,000 per day, six days per week (laundering is not done on the Sabbath), but in 1985 his wings were clipped when he was accused of
having swindled a New York bank to the tune of $3 million. He quickly returned the money and was sentenced to a fine and a suspended prison sentence.
In 1988 Sharir's laundering activities reached amazing heights. His gold shop on 47tll Street became one of the greatest laundering centers in the entire US.
"Three times a week," Sharir told the court at one of the many trials in which he is now testifying, "we received the cash. It used to arrive in canvas sacks, in
cardboard boxes or in suitcases. Sometimes there were a million dollars in one shipment."
Roy Lopez, representing the Colombian cartels, would arrive from Miami equipped with a document sent from Colombia which contained detailed coded
instructions about where to send the money. "Even with automatic money-counting machines it was difficult to count the money," Sharir testified. "It arrived in
bills of 5, 10 and 20 dollars. The bills, most of which had been used to sniff cocaine, had a strong odor of coke. A real stink. My employees could not stand
it. Every 2-3 hours they had to take a break, go out for some fresh air, so as not to get ill."
Sharir's role was to see to it that the money would be transported out of the US and arrive in the bank accounts of the Colombian cartels in Panama and in