5 CALIFORNIANS NAMED IN DEPORTATION SUITS

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• Publication Date: August 22, 1983
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
22 August 1983
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Deaths of Suspected Nazis End 2 Cases; 3 Others
Remain in Legal Limbc
By DAN MOR-4.12N, Times staff writer
The U.S. Justice Department's
Office of Special Investigations has
brought suit to deport five Califor-
nians suspected of being Nazi war
crirtinajs.
Following are brief accounts of
those cases:
Talivaldis Barklins--In 1963,
about the time he was becoming a
U.S. citizen, Karkhrts was being
tried in absentia for war crimes
committed during World War II in
his native Latvia.
In 196,3, however, the U.S. gov-
ernment was not interested in
Ka klins, who was raising a family
in Monterey Park. It wasn't until
1991 that the Office of Special
investigations sued to revoke his
citizenship and deport him for his
wartime activities.
Basing its case largely on testi-
mony taken in Latvia, now a part of
the Soviet lima,. the office charged
that he was she commandant of a
small concentration camp-actually
a converted two-story school
house-in the town of Madona_
Some of his fellow guards said he
tank charge of transporting several
hundred Jews to a large pit in a
forest outside Madona, and there,
along with others working for the
Nazi puppet regime, opened fire on
the Jews.
The denatur ahzation effort came
too late. On Feb. 7 of this year, a
month before he was to stand trial
in U.S. District Court in Los Angel-
es. Karkliras died of a heart attack at
age 68.
Andrija Artukovic~-He served as
interior minister of Croatia-a
short-lived Nazi-dominated regime
in what is now Yugoslavia-and is
the highest-ranking official of any
pro-Hitler government known to be
living in the United States, those
involved in the deportation effort
say.
But at 83, Artukovic appears to
have beaten the deportation at-
tempt against hi.,, Most likely, he
will live the rest of his life in
Surfside Colony is Orange County,
his home for the last 35 vea.",.
Artukovic has been accused of.
signing orders sending hundreds of
thousands of people to their deaths,
charges that he has steadfastly
denied since the accusations started
more than three decades ago.
He entered this country as a
tourist under a false name in 1948.
In 1951, the middle of the Cold War,
the Yugoslav government asked for
his extradition. A federal judge in
Los Angeles denied the request,
ruling that Artukovic would be
persecuted if he were forced to
return.
About the same time, the Immi-
gration and Naturalization Service
tried to deport him for overstaying
his 30-day visa. An immigration
judge in 1952 ordered him to leave.
That was stayed in 1959 by a 'second
immigration judge who said it
"would be mere speculation or sur-
mise to find the act charged were
done upon orders from the defend-
ant.11
" Two decades later, the Office of
Special Investigations sued to have
the stay revoked. In December,
1982, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled that the government
would have to file a new deportation
suit if it hopes to deport him.
Such a suit could be appealed as
far as the U.S. Supreme Court and
would take years to prosecute., To
date, no new suit has been filed.
Otto Albrecht :Alfred von
Bol&ch nr_As an :SS officer, be
wrote memos about the "F'nal So-
lution" to Adolf Eichmann, Hitler's
chief of operations in charge of
carrying out the policy of ertermi_
nating the Jews, said Allan A. Ryan
Jr., director of the Office of Special
Investigation.
Believing that von Bolscharing
may have been more directly in-
volved in the Holocaust than any
other Nazi in this country, Ryan's
office sued in 1981 seeking his
deportation.
At the time, von Bolschwing
claimed that he was a double agent
during the war who worked for the
U.S. military, and served as a spy for
U.S. intelligence agencies after the
war, statements that the govern-
ment denied.
Ten months after the suit was
filed, he died at age 72 in a nursing
home in the Sacramento suburb of
Carmichael where he had lived for
several years,
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