RODINO ASKS GAO TO REOPEN PROBE ON NAZIS

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• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: May 19, 1982
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ARTICLE APPEARED THE WASHINGTON POST
ON PAGE 19 May 1982
o
robe on. laws
Ito Reopen
:. ;?: `; m6hington Pm Stan writ"
Rep:.:Peter Rodino ::Jr.
N.J.); 7 chairman.of the 'House Judi
the Committee, asked :the General
Accounting' Office yesterday to re-
,;opem an- investigation: it::closed in
x1978; on whether : U.& intelligence,
agencies ever- . obstructed probes-- of
:.Nazi .-war 'criminals :=living -in . the
s United States.
In- a letter to Comptroller Genera!
Charles A.' Bowsher, Rodino 'said
that if allegations raised on last Sun-
;,day's CBS program "60 Minutes" are
:correct a "great deal of. vital infor-
mation was withheld from GAO in. vestigators who instituted their
probe in 1977.
Rodin said the allegations' can
into question the conclusions of the'
GAO probe that there was no con-
spiracy to halt investigation, of Nazi
war criminals.
Former 'federal pcosecutor'John J:
Loftus charged on the television pro-
gram. that ? State .Department- and
Army intelligence agencies recruited
as many as.300 Byelorussian' Nazis.
sand. brought them . surreptitiously.to
the United States; to.work .as spies
:and propagandists against the Soviet
"Union:-.Loftus.said many of the Bye,,
lorussians. : rec ruited.: were - Nazi -col
.laboratory guilty of war crimes..-"::-.:
Loftus also charged :.that.... the
:whereabouts of . these.:; Byelorussian.
Nazis was covered up throughout the
1970s,;: He;,said ;;U.S intelligence
,agencies :deliberately, withheld from:
;GAO the names and- whereabouts of
many =. of ' the- Byelorussian :emigres,
-some of whom still work for.federal
agencies.
Rodin asked. Attorney General
William French Smith to, determine
whether the Byelorussian 'were
brought to this country illegally and
whether any U.S. intelligence agen
cies may have obstructed congres
.sional inquiries by misleading or
lying to the GAO and the House Ju- l
diciary Committee chaired by Ro-
dino. : .
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