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Odessa's mayor. The chief regional prosecutor declared the murder a

contract killing and launched an official investigation. Local

authorities announced in September that they had arrested a suspect,

described as a professional assassin, who confessed to killing

Derevyanko, but they gave no details about his confession.

I would add that the Odessa mayor which the above account neglects to name was the

corrupt Eduard Hurvits, who was particularly threatened by Borys Derevyanko's opposition

because of municipal elections that were coming up in 1998. The comment concerning the

arrest of an assassin gives a misleading impression - in today's Ukraine, contract

killings are never solved, and those who order them are never punished.

Today, Borys Derevyanko is dead, and Eduard Hurvits, barred by his corruption from

holding the office of mayor of Odessa, continues his criminal career as a member of the

Ukrainian parliament. Photographs of Derevyanko and Hurvits are shown below:

Newspaper editor

Borys Derevyanko

Odessa Mayor

Eduard Hurvits

The table which I began in my letter to you of 30Jun99 can now be elaborated with

another entry:

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

01Jul99

Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?

August 11, 1997

As the conclusion of your 23Oct94 60 Minutes story, The Ugly Face of Freedom, was that

Ukraine is a place in which Ukrainians practice violence against Jews, it is highly

relevant that Borys Derevyanko is Ukrainian and Eduard Hurvits is Jewish. You went to

Ukraine looking for evidence of Ukrainians harming Jews, you failed to find such

evidence, but you broadcast your conclusion anyway. The true story that you would not

broadcast, and that was readily documentable, is that Ukraine is a place in which Jews

harm Ukrainians. 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. That is the reality of Ukraine. It was the reality of

Ukraine when you visited it in 1994, it was the reality of Ukraine before 1994, and it

has been the reality of Ukraine since 1994.

As in earlier letters, I fault you for not reporting such incidents as are in the above

table that took place before 1994, and I fault you for precipitating such incidents that

took place after 1994. Thus, to the blood that is already on your hands, I add the

blood of Borys Derevyanko. You had the opportunity in your 1994 broadcast to come out

on the side of the victims against the butchers, but you preferred to side with the

butchers against the victims, and Borys Derevyanko has been one of the casualties of

your decision.

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 13 04Jul99 The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny

Thus, it is possible that you contributed to Maksym Tsarenko losing his hands, and to

Volodymyr Katelnytsky together with his mother, and Borys Derevyanko, losing their

lives.

Additional information on the Lviv massacre can be found in Alfred M. de Zayas, The

Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939-1945.

July 4, 1999

Morley Safer

60 Minutes, CBS Television

51 W 52nd Street

New York, NY

USA 10019

Morley Safer:

You Broadcast to 30 Million 60 Minutes

Viewers that in the Days Prior to German

Occupation, Ukrainians Killed Jews

In your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom, you joined with

Simon Wiesenthal in charging that in the days preceding the arrival of German forces

in June 1941, Lviv Ukrainians killed thousands of Jews:

SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the

Germans arrived, Ukrainian police went on a 3-day killing spree.

WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6

thousand Jews was killed.

[...]

SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian

militia, the police, killed 3,000 people in 2 days here.

Some 60 Minutes viewers may have been struck by the observation that while the 60

Minutes expert witness - Simon Wiesenthal - claimed that the number of Jews killed

was "between 5 and 6 thousand" in three days, you - supposedly the neutral

interviewer - chose to reduce the number killed to "3,000" and the duration of the

killing to two days - but without informing the viewer on what grounds you did so.

One wonders what reason you would have had for undermining the testimony of your

chief - and only - witness. One wonders what superior authority you discovered for

your revised statistic, and why you did not bring this superior authority forward to