WALDHEIM TIED TO ARMY ORDERS FOR DEPORTATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100130004-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 8, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PAGE - _,
Waldheim..tied
to army orders
for deportation
By G. Jeffftson Price III
Jerusalem Bureau of The Sun
JERUSALEM - The World Jew-
ish Congress yesterday disclosed a
document showing that the German
army unit to which Austrian Presi-
dent-elect Kurt Waldheim belonged
"ordered Jewish deportations" from
Greece during World War U.
The WJC officials said the docu-
ment, obtained from west German
archives in Freiburg, reveals that
the unit to which Mr. Waldheim was
attached in the eastern Aegean area
not only issued those orders. but re-
ceived field reports on their imple-
mentation.
The croup said Mr. Wal helm
Ing
admitt being the operational
fgpn
"The documents directly contra-
dict Waldheim's repeated claims
that he did not even know of such
deportations," the WJC charged in a
statement. "In a letter to WJC Presi-
dent Edgar Bronfman March 7.
Waldheim said. he had 'never been
informed' about the deportation of
Greek Jews." . - I
The latest charge, which the
WJC said went a step beyond previ-
ous allegations that Mr. Waldheim
BALTIMORE SUN
8 July 1986
knew about deportations; `came oa
the eve of Mr. Waldhelm's
tion today as president of Au-_
ter a campaign in which. the WJC's
investigation of the former United
Nations secretary-general's Nazi
Past figured as a major issue.
W dheim da spokesman enounced the for
new
charge
las part of "an evil defamation
campaig.
"This is an old paper. which al
ready was presented some time ago,"
said Gerold Christian, the Waldheim
aide., it lacks all proof of veracity
and any basis for suspicion or accu-
sations."
document resented'b the
WJC aooears to e a urocresa repo
dispatched . to German inter
hesdcluarters in Greece i ntifed
IG This was a unit command,
Ina the eastern Aegean regI : I .
which-
/ lldheim as .L_,
-to
o assistant to the intelligence
ebl f
The report etivers a dozen, sut
legs from espionage to the disposi-
tion of captured radio equipment:
The description of the deportation of:
Jews appears as the eighth item iri'
the four-page report, in a single;.
paragraph.-
"End of, July, ' 1944 the depo"`.
tion of Jews of non-Turkish. cltizeii.'
ship from the entire area of cot-
ma~nd'l~r' i~iicttons fiimti_tlie high.
command" of . Military Group- E,
IC/AO. Execution in the hands' of
SD-Greece which sent a speciallcom-
mando [unltl:for the purpose, to the
command area. The documents
have been held back because further
documentation is required.`
"The Jews on Rhodes and Crete,
numbering some 2,500 men;women
and children. were rounded up and
stripped of their possessions during.
the final weeks of July. 1944," ac-
cording to the WJC statement "They.
were shipped to-the Auschwitz death
camp, ... where nearly all of them
were annihilated;
According to the WJC, Mr. Wald-
heim reported to the U.S. Justice De-
partmnt :April 6 that he served: as
the deslgnated':."03" officer: in the
IC/AO.
The WJC ata!ement citi:+a
merit.. iden ied an "03" as the c
it, of the officer
. . resoonsetle for all operational i-n
tel rice and controiof'the inteili-:
rice
"Kurt Waidheimthas been proven,
to be an 'amoral?opportunist a liar,
Mr. Bronfman said at t-a press confer-
ence here. . ..
The WJC,' a U.&-based Jewish
group, repeated Its demand that the
U.S. Justice Department place Mr.
Waldheim on its list of aliens forbid.
den to visit the United States.
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