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alcohol consumption that you advocate possibly saps energy and depletes motivation,

possibly leads to more time spent in small talk and in television viewing, and less in

productive work and creative effort. Undoubtedly, the level of alcohol consumption that

you advocate promotes outright alcoholism. Yours has been a call based on

pseudo-science to abandon sobriety and embrace intoxication - hardly a direction that

American culture needs to be pushed in.

The French Paradox and The Ugly Face of Freedom were equally flawed. And to return to

the comparison of your 23Oct94 broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom to your 5Nov95

broadcast The French Paradox, I do see a striking parallel. In both cases, you didn't

know what you were talking about, but stepped forward and talked anyway. Given that you

had not studied the subjects to which you addressed yourself, given that you had not

thought about them, given that you were capable of nothing better than passing along the

most superficial, man-in-the-street, off-the-top-of-my-head conclusions, the truly

remarkable thing is that you would have the arrogance to think yourself worthy of

standing up in front of tens of millions of people and telling them what was your

opinion. Yet that is what you did, and in each case, you got it wrong. Your many

conclusions in these two broadcasts ranged from totally opposite to the truth to totally

unsupported by the evidence. The Ugly Face of Freedom for which you will always be

remembered in the Ukrainian community was wrong and destructive. The French Paradox

which judging from its Internet prominence appears to be your best-remembered broadcast

among your total audience - was also wrong, and also destructive.

A word concerning self-help. If you yourself subscribe to the prescription of drinking

three to five glasses of wine each day, then I would recommend that you attempt to break

yourself of the habit, and substitute for the many hours of inebriation thus avoided

some sober study. Had you substituted for many hours of inebriation the sober reading

of history, you might have spared yourself the fiasco of The Ugly Face of Freedom. Had

you substituted for many hours of inebriation the sober study of scientific method, you

might have spared yourself the fiasco of The French Paradox. Perhaps you have no more

than to look at these two pratfalls in your own career to see how damaging is the effect

of making a habit of indulging in alcohol.

Disclosure would be a step toward restoring professional credibility. As enthusiasm for

your French Paradox broadcasts seems to have its source in the wine industry, and as

your integrity has been brought into question on the matter of The Ugly Face of Freedom,

I wonder if your professional standing would not be enhanced by your assuring 60 Minutes

viewers that you have received no benefits from the wine industry in gratitude for the

increased sales that your French Paradox broadcasts have brought it. The absence of

such an assurance will invite some 60 Minutes viewers to construe your French Paradox

broadcasts more as infomercials than as investigative reporting.

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike

Wallace.

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Morley Safer Letter 8 26Apr99 One out of 40 escaped shooting

It looks very much, Mr. Safer, as if on your 60 Minutes broadcast of 23Oct94, The Ugly

Face of Freedom, your chief witness testifying to Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis

was himself a war criminal of substantial proportions, a former Gestapo agent with the

blood of many on his hands, perhaps much of it Jewish blood.

April 26, 1999

Morley Safer

60 Minutes, CBS Television

51 W 52nd Street

New York, NY

USA 10019

Morley Safer:

I bring to your attention the following excerpt from an article by L. A. Ruvinsky

published in the Ukrainian Historical Journal in 1985:

After the end of the Second World War, the former head of the Lviv

Gestapo, P. Krause, replying to a question put by the writer V. P.

Bieliaev, testified: "If on our side, in the Gestapo, there had not

worked several agents from among the Zionists, we would never have been

able to capture and destroy such a large number of Jews, who were

living under false documents and assumed names." For example, in July

1941, Zionist Simon Wiesenthal, together with 39 other representatives

of the Lviv intelligentsia, found himself in prison. Somehow, as a

result of a "mysterious confluence of circumstances" all the arrested

except for himself were shot, and he was freed. It is not surprising

that after this, this Zionist provocateur became a regular Nazi agent.

Polish journalists have established this as an indisputable fact. That

is why the Hitlerites did not throw Wiesenthal into prison, which he

frequently confirms, but rather sent him there to organize subsequent

provocations. Evidently he was not lying when he said that he passed

through 5 Nazi prisons and 12 prison camps. In any case, it is not