SLAVE LABOR

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CIA-RDP90-00965R000201800013-0
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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December 22, 2016
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January 20, 2012
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13
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Publication Date: 
July 11, 1985
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STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/20: CIA- AATICL3 APP ON PAGE WASHINGTON TIMES 11 July 1985 I 1-hin Slave labor The United States does not have conclusive evidence to prove items imported from the Soviet Union have been made in forced labor camps, a Senate panel was told yesterday. William Von Raab, the Customs commis- sioner who last year unsuccess- fully tried to get enforcement of the ban on importation of slave labor-made items that has been on the books since the 1930s, said the ~JA was "unable to obtain sufficient facts to make a solid case that any articu ar goo we receive from t e Soviet union is made with orce a or. Some million people work in Soviet forced labor camps, according to testimony before the Senate Finance International Trade Sub- committee. It is believed that about 10,000 of those people are political prisoners. A Helsinki Commission report found that nearly $140 million in imports in 1982 from the U.S.S.R. are believed to have been made in Soviet labor camps. The Wash- ington Legal Foundation is repre senting more than 30 members of Congress in a lawsuit against the Reagan administration seek- ing enforcement of the slave- labor import ban. - John Elvin This column includes staff and wire service reports. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/20: CIA-RDP90-00965R000201800013-0