SOME SUSPECTED OF NAZI WAR CRIMES ARE KNOWN AS MODEL CITIZENS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140099-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 99
• Publication Date: October 18, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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?:-By RALPH BLUMENTHAL :
THE NEW YORK TIMES
18 October 1976
.. ,..... lle-r neighborhoods to hang out.
They --are called ..model:- neighbors ?
kind and inobtrusive
'friendly.
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notunderstand how,-
Their neigh
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:`they could -..be? under, investigation "for,;
But,. according to.'the Immigration :and2
Naturalization :Service, at least 85 natu
ralized .:American- citizens and- resident
aliens, including some. most : ardently ,_
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praised by their neighbors; are suspected ? _ citizens nism. If'e no- can kill a fly."...r=
on the Nazi-cases; released"the names charged with war-.crimes would soon face ,Another neighbor, James-Mellon, was,
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;-or 3T: suspectsin?June.1974'. -many are
za- quoted as : saying. that :Mr... Kaminskas
'.'being investigated-today,-and the list has tion. a preliminary. step. to the.deportation? rides his bicycle around-6e-neighborhood
been expanded through, additionaL.allega- of citizens : ,. collecting material-to make.toys_ for tail.
tions from Israel and other=sources.': ? _ ?The Case?of Bishop-Tnfa dren:. = => ;f
Almost all .. ... suspects ; are.fromEast-. 4,Anot}ier1..denaturalization- case=only ;:: The third: alien facing deportation Kar-
c . ern ?Europe,:. particularly : the 'former .the second!-ever=.brought: against an al_ Iis Detlavs;65, of : Baltimore' also denied
=:republics of Latvia Lithuania and Estonia leged-war criminal here--is already: under allegations-that, as a member of the pro.
that were- overrun`.by:the Nazis*in World way: It?charges-Valerian D. Trifa, Bishop Nazi-Latvian Legion. he had participated
War II and pressed into. the. liquidation .of.,. theRumanian ?Orthodox Episcopate; in. in the. shooting and selection'of Jews for
of the Jews and the war against. the Sovi- Grass: Lake - Mich.' with. having lied to- execution .at Riga:. After coming . here in
et Union: The. territories were-taken- over. the immigration-authorities about his.ac...1950:'he' worked; at- the General Electric
by .the Soviet after the 'war;, and that tivitiesas- a'student member of the=?.I-on cable . factory:until.1973r-when: his left.
remains' an emotional issue : with.. the sus- -Guard: and .his' alleged participation-war. leg was : amputated for cancer. Nearby
pects;? most-of whom-'are=; fiercely anti- time atrocities in Bucharest in 1941, :- _ residents : called..him,: a model neighbor
Communist. Most; prominent: of the-' three : aliens and. praised his well-tended garden
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T
he Government-has-said?that
85=per 'charged -lasttiveek'wuas Boleslavs Maikov ;In '--,its - denaturalization.-. 'Suit against
:sons are-:under investigation for partici= skis ,a-72-year-old carpenter.from. Miaeo Bishop Trifain Federal. Court in Detroit,
paling in Nazi war crimes. Last week;. la; L.L; who .entered the..United.-States the-.Government charged.. that, ... as head
two Latvians- and a.Lithuanian. became in. 1951?as-a purported displaced person.: of the National Union of Rumanian Chris-
;-the first resident' aliens to-face- United He was an alleged member .of "the pro-.-- tian :Students, Bishop Trifa? had partici-:
zekne that was accused o f selecting Jews,'
p~?~ .
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IT& % including children, for 'execution from :
tenced -to death - in.: 1965.. The United
States'.has refused Soviet demands. for
his. extradition, : a= policy . that the United-
States shows ico signs of changing. -.1=:
No On$ nas been answering the uouroeu
'at the three=story house. in Mineola. where
NIr: ? Maikovskis: and.. his -wife have'. been
-.living for more. than, a.decade. Sometimes
comes to the door.. . - Neighbors on the quiet,-tree,-lined ave-
and friendly, and as two people who-often
sat quietly in their garden., and attended
a nearby church- = :_ .:. "..:?
Another of -the.' three. .'aliens facing:
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