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be friends, if we are honest to the end. We are currently living in a

commonwealth, the root of the word is found in the word "druh,"

friend... We will never become true friends, until we journalists

understand that we are the ones who can, who have the responsibility to

stop our peoples from total degradation, from the catastrophe that can

occur between our peoples," he said. "If we cannot prevent this we stop

being journalists. We will become persons who today do their work and

tomorrow, one by one, are destroyed."

Vadim's deep sense of responsibility, his courage and commitment to the

truth will always be admired by his friends and colleagues. And we are

all committed to learning the truth.

Given the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death, I can only

hope that his last interview prophecy did not become self-fulfilling.

Mr. Safer, you travelled to Ukraine looking for stories of persecution and violence

against Jews and Russians, you failed to find the evidence, but you broadcast the story

anyway. All the while, you were surrounded by stories of persecution and violence

against Ukrainians, but that plentiful evidence you ignored. In other words, you went

to Ukraine not to discover its reality, but to confirm your prejudice. You played the

role not of journalist, but of propagandist. Given the opportunity to make a

contribution toward protecting the lives of journalists in Ukraine by broadcasting the

story of Vadim Boyko, you declined. Showing anything on 60 Minutes that might win

sympathy for Ukrainians was contrary to your plan.

Had you managed to find a Jewish member of parliament and television broadcaster who had

died in Ukraine under mysterious circumstances, then you would have had one small piece

of evidence for the anti-Ukrainian conclusions that you offered. Had you managed to

find a Russian member of parliament and television broadcaster who had died in Ukraine

under mysterious circumstances, then you would have had one small piece of evidence for

the anti-Ukrainian conclusions that you offered. However, you found neither of these

things. In Ukraine, death under mysterious circumstances is reserved for prominent

Ukrainians, which conclusion you had no interest in broadcasting.

Below, I identify four incidents which I have brought to your attention either in three

earlier letters, or in the present one. Although the first two cases occurred before

your broadcast of 23Oct94, and the second two occurred after, all serve to support the

conclusion that within today's Ukraine, it is Ukrainians who are the targets of

violence:

Date of my letter

Subject of my letter

Date of Attack

Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom

15May99

Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?

April 1979

30Jun99

Who murdered Vadim Boyko?

February 14, 1992

Violence that you might have caused by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom

09Apr99

Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?

Summer 1995

17May99

Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?

July 7-8, 1997

As the first two of the above attacks occurred prior to your 23Oct94 broadcast, then

your fault is that you neglected to report them. And as the second two attacks occurred

after your 23Oct94 broadcast, then your fault is that you may have helped cause them.

That is, your 23Oct94 broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, served to demonstrate to

Ukraine's assassins not only that violence against Ukrainians would go unreported in the

world press, but also that even as Ukrainians continued to be butchered, the world press

would portray them - the victim Ukrainians - as themselves butchers. You did not

yourself wield any knife or pull any trigger or tighten any garotte, but you informed

those that were predisposed to do so that they might expect impunity if they did. For

this reason, I consider you to have blood on your hands, some of it Maksym Tsarenko's,

and some of it Volodymyr Katelnytsky's.

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Yaakov Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,

Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.

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Morley Safer Letter 12 01Jul99 Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?

The plainest moral to be drawn from the Derevyanko-Hurvits story is that when a

muckraking Ukrainian editor takes on a corrupt Jewish politician, the Ukrainian editor

ends up dead.

July 1, 1999

Morley Safer

60 Minutes, CBS Television

51 W 52nd Street

New York, NY

USA 10019

Morley Safer:

The Committee to Protect Journalists described the contract killing of Ukrainian editor

Borys Derevyanko thusly:

Borys Derevyanko, Vechernyaya Odessa

Date of Death: August 11, 1997

Place of Death: Odessa

Derevyanko, editor in chief of Vechernyaya Odessa, a popular and

influential thrice-weekly newspaper, was fatally shot at point-blank

range on his way to work on the morning of August 11 near the Press

House, where the newspaper's offices are located. Colleagues believe

the killing of Derevyanko, who was editor of Vechernyaya Odessa for 24

years, was related to the newspaper's opposition to the policies of