And I Find My Earlier Conclusions
Strengthened
What a convincing broadcast your The Ugly Face of Freedom would have been if all the
instances in the above table had been ones of Jews or Russians being tortured and
mutilated and murdered by Ukrainians, instead of the other way around! However, in
your broadcast you documented not a single such story featuring Ukrainians
victimizing Jews or Russians. Evidence of Ukrainians being victimized was
plentiful, but you ignored it. Much worse, in the case of the pre-German violence,
you reversed it.
Unless you are able to offer some credible defense, Mr. Safer, two conclusions that
have already gained a foothold threaten to climb to wide acceptance:
(1) that your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes demonstrated
your lack of competence and integrity; and
(2) that your broadcast served to demonstrate to Ukraine's assassins not only that
violence against Ukrainians goes unreported in the world press, but also that it is
even buried under fabricated reports of violence committed by Ukrainians. By means
of this demonstration, you informed Ukraine's assassins that they might expect
impunity for their work against Ukrainians, and in this way you encouraged them to
violence that they might otherwise have feared to commit. 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.
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 14 25Jul99 Who did Israel Roitman murder?
"By the time the Banderite's face was turned into a bloody-hairy pulp, we were
exhausted. The Banderite slumped to his knees, then fell flat on his face. We shot him."
- Israel Roitman
July 25, 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 boastful confession of
former SMERSH agent, Israel Roitman
The translation of Isreal Roitman's autobiographical account below, originally published
in the Russian-language periodical Our View in Thornhill, Ontario in 1998, recounts the
experience of a Jew participating in the torture and murder of a Ukrainian during the
Second World War, and boasts that this one crime was only the first of many:
MUSIC
by Israel Roitman
Our View
05May98
[...]
Once, on the occasion of a talk with students, I was asked: "Did you also kill
people?"