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consumption that you advocate slows reaction times and interferes with coordination and
impairs judgment, and therefore invites accidents. Certainly no airline pilot would be
permitted to consume a fraction of your recommended daily intake and still be allowed to
fly, and certainly every driver should recognize that he is putting himself at risk
drinking as much as you advocate. We recognize the damage that your advice may have
inflicted when we take into account that except for infants and the aging, accidents are
the leading cause of death.
The level of alcohol consumption that you advocate interferes with, or makes quite
impossible, difficult mental work. Thus, a university student who follows your advice
and has a couple of glasses of wine with his dinner is finished for the day - he might
as well head out to a pub after that, because he will find his calculus homework quite
incomprehensible. A chemistry professor who follows your advice and has a couple of
glasses of wine with his lunch will find himself making mistakes as he tries to lay out
the electron configuration of aluminum for his class - he had better find some simpler
topic to treat in that lecture if he doesn't want to embarrass himself in front of his
students. A lawyer arguing a complex case who follows your advice and has a couple of
glasses of wine with his lunch will find himself losing the thread of his argument in
court - he had better let his junior take over that afternoon if he wants to maintain
his reputation.
The level of alcohol consumption that you advocate may damage health. The level of
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
difficult to imagine how many innocent victims are on the conscience of
this impenitent Zionist provocateur. It is such loathsome services for
the Fascist killers that were performed in the Yanivsky concentration
camp, in which people of various nationalities found themselves
Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews.
L. A. Ruvinsky, The criminal conspiracy of Zionists and Fascists on the
eve of, and during the years of, the Second World War, Ukrainian
Historical Journal, 1985, No. 9, pp. 99-109, p. 105, translated from
the Ukrainian by Lubomyr Prytulak.
The above statement, by itself, is certainly insufficient to establish that Simon
Wiesenthal passed the war years as a Gestapo agent. However, it is even by itself
sufficient to lead an investigative journalist to ask Mr. Wiesenthal certain questions:
(1) Was Simon Wiesenthal in fact arrested along with 39 other members of the Lviv
intelligentsia?
(2) Was Simon Wiesenthal the only one of the 40 who avoided execution?
(3) Did Simon Wiesenthal pass through 5 Nazi prisons and 12 prison camps?
(4) How could Simon Wiesenthal have avoided execution, and how could he have passed
through so many Nazi institutions, unless he had agreed to serve as a Gestapo agent?
Had you asked Mr. Wiesenthal any such questions in your 60 Minutes broadcast of
23Oct94, The Ugly Face of Freedom, you would have taken a step toward digging
underneath the surface, a step of the sort that some 60 Minutes viewers have come to
expect as standard from investigative journalists.
I bring to your attention further that the above quotation from Ruvinsky is not the
only reason that we have for thinking that Simon Wiesenthal may have worked for the
Gestapo. Further reasons can be found in my following three letters to Simon
Wiesenthal:
(1) 15Dec94 in which I ask Simon Wiesenthal, among other things, why he kept detailed
notes on the Polish partisans who were sheltering him, and why he allowed these notes
to be captured by the Nazis.
(2) 14Aug97 in which I ask Simon Wiesenthal why the Nazis allowed him, a Jew and
supposedly a prisoner, to keep two pistols.
(3) 28Aug97 in which I ask Simon Wiesenthal why, where other prisoners were shot upon
being recaptured following their escape, he was instead relieved from work and put on
double rations.
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, and who may have
used your interview with him to cast blame on Ukrainians so as to deflect attention
away from his own guilt.
If this blunder of yours is allowed to stand, then it threatens in the end to be
remembered as your chief legacy to 60 Minutes. Would it not be better to finally break
your long silence and by embracing truth to make some attempt to redeem your
reputation?
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike
Wallace, Simon Wiesenthal.
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Morley Safer Letter 9 15May99 Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
But in the meantime, those who come too near to the truth concerning what happened to
Volodymyr Ivasiuk have been the victims of an unusual number of accidents. One man's
wife unexpectedly hangs herself, another man throws himself from a balcony, still
another drowns, yet another falls under the wheels of a car.... But remember, butchers,
God's punishment will descend even upon you!
May 15, 1999
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
Who Murdered
Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
Volodymyr Ivasiuk is best known as a composer and poet,
author of the widely popular song Chervona Ruta whose first
two lines appear below as he wrote them in his own hand,
which song more than anything else made him beloved
throughout Ukraine, and even beyond the borders of Ukraine.
On top of that, Volodymyr was a man of many talents, having
earned a degree in medicine, and having demonstrated talent
in art, photography, and cinematography.
However, having reached his prime
showing so much promise, it was not
given Volodymyr Ivasiuk to develop his
talents further. He was dead at the age
of 30. To the right is a photograph of
his funeral procession, attended by
thousands of mourners despite the
suppression by the state of the
publication of information concerning
his burial, despite official warnings to
not attend funeral services, and despite
the calling of Komsomol meetings, which
carried mandatory attendance, on the
same day. The magazine Halas, on whose
information I rely in the present
letter, states that Rostyslaw Bratun who
was the first to step forward and speak
at Volodymyr's funeral lost his job two
months later. Words spoken at the
funeral by the Sichko family landed them
in prison.
To the right is a second photograph
showing the statue that was eventually
erected in Volodymyr Ivasiuk's memory.
And just how did Volodymyr Ivasiuk meet
his end? His death certificate which
appears below states that he died on
24-27 April 1979 from mechanical
asphyxiation caused by hanging in a
noose, and attributes the hanging to
suicide.
The details of Volodymyr Ivasiuk's death, however, do not support the official view that
he killed himself:
They waited and searched for Volodya for 24 days. Following the
mysterious disappearance of the composer, the search for him was not
disclosed to the public, the explanation being given that such an
announcement would create a disturbance. However, the mass media are
daily used not only to help locate people, but sometimes even their
pets. [...]
It was not until May 18, 1979 that Volodymyr Ivasiuk's body was
accidentally discovered in the heavy forest near the village
Briukhovych near Lviv.
One couldn't bring oneself to believe it. The parents were allowed to
identify their son only on the following day, even though it was only a
five-minute walk from the apartment where Volodya lived to the morgue;
and the identification was conducted with gross violations of law. The
father was allowed to view the body only after he repeatedly telephoned
the Oblast Procurator threatening to send a telegram of complaint to
the General Procurator of Ukraine. The local authorities eventually
gave in with the exasperated reply: "Take your son home, and look at
him there at least a hundred years!" His death certificate reported
that he died 24-27 April 1979 at the age of 30. The cause of death:
mechanical asphyxiation. Hanging from a noose - suicide. The death
certificate was issued on May 21, 1979, and even back then, a mere
three days after the body had been discovered, without any evidence or
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