yourself with not being alone and unappreciated. Indeed, you are a valued member of a
large and successful team. Grigory Luchansky, Vadim Rabinovich, and Leonid Wolf
undoubtedly know of your work, and they thank you for it.
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike
Wallace.
HOME DISINFORMATION PEOPLE SAFER 809 hits since 23Oct99
Morley Safer Letter 16 23Oct99 Fifth anniversary commemoration
If, to imagine a comparable case, CBS management jointly owned a chicken-packing
plant that had been cited for sanitation violations, then it would be unethical for 60
Minutes to run a story defending the plant without disclosing its ownership.
October 23, 1999
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
Fifth anniversary of The Ugly Face of Freedom
Now that we have arrived at the fifth anniversary of your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast
The Ugly Face of Freedom, I think that all might agree that five years has given us
sufficient time to reflect on that broadcast, to arrive at a reasonable understanding of
its defects, and to decide what corrective action remains for 60 Minutes to undertake.
It is the purpose of the present letter to propose that the corrective action should be
a 12-minute 60 Minutes story under the title The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes, and
necessarily hosted by yourself.
Given the severe time limitation of a 12-minute segment, not to mention the public's
lack of interest in excessive detail, The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes will be forced to
overlook scores of lesser inaccuracies and biases, and will be forced to omit mention of
any defects that contain the least element of doubt. Rather, The Ugly Face of 60
Minutes will have no option but to outline only those major defects and errors
concerning which there is no dispute. Below is my listing of the points which - being
the most important and the least disputable - are ones that The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes
should include.
Who did it?
The authorship of The Ugly Face of Freedom was Jewish. The Ugly Face of 60
Minutes should start by acknowledging that The Ugly Face of Freedom was not just an
attack upon Ukrainians and upon the nation of Ukraine, but that it was a Jewish attack.
You will be able to convince your viewers of this merely by disclosing that every last
person bearing responsibility for the story, from the very top of the chain of command
to the very bottom, was Jewish:
(1) Laurence Tisch, Chairman and CEO of CBS
(2) Eric Ober, President of CBS News
(3) Don Hewitt, Executive Producer of 60 Minutes
(4) Jeffrey Fager, Producer of The Ugly Face of Freedom
(5) Morley Safer, Program Host
(6) Simon Wiesenthal, one of the two featured program witnesses
(7) Yaakov Bleich, the other of the two featured program witnesses
Moreover, The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes should acknowledge that it was unethical for CBS