Word: fedorenko
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...case of Feodor Fedorenko [Oct. 27], the Ukrainian-born immigrant now accused of being a Nazi criminal: I cannot comprehend why the Justice Department is seeking the revocation of his citizenship when more than 78,000 Cubans have immigrated to America and we have become responsible for their welfare...
...Fedorenko has been a good citizen. At 73, after working here for 31 years, he now seeks only a peaceful life...
...issue is not that Fedorenko and Wolodymir Osidach, another Ukrainian immigrant accused of war crimes, have been good citizens since they arrived in the U.S. The facts are that they lied or accidentally forgot to mention their past "profession," and that is a very important "material fact...
...Government maintains that a fact is material if its revelation would have triggered an inquiry that "might" have turned up facts barring citizenship-participation in atrocities, for example. That is not enough, insists Fedorenko's lawyer, Brian Gildea of New Haven, Conn. The Government has to show that such an investigation definitely "would" have led to the discovery of damning facts. Says Allan Ryan, head of the Justice Department's special unit for tracking down former war criminals: "That's no different from saying we have to prove the atrocities from scratch right in the courtroom...
...that an immigrant was, say, a camp guard and that he later concealed that fact means locating survivors of the camp and hoping they can identify that person after 35 or 40 years have passed. The Justice Department had to go to Israel to find the six witnesses against Fedorenko, and the Philadelphia trial of another suspected war criminal is taking place in part because department lawyers located and video-taped nine Soviet witnesses in the Ukraine...