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(5) US aid. The Jewish calumniation of Ukrainians weakens competition for US aid, as by
discrediting Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma who was at the time of the 60 Minutes
broadcast paying an official visit to the US.
(6) Group cohesion. The incitement of fear and hatred in Jews increases popular
support for, and the flow of private donations to, Jewish leaders. A focus is needed
for that fear and hatred. At the moment, Ukrainians have been chosen to be that focus.
Most of the above assertions have been documented, sometimes at length, on the Ukrainian
Archive at www.ukar.org. If you would like me to direct your attention to documentation
concerning any particular assertion - whether that documentation is on the Ukrainian
Archive or elsewhere - please let me know and I will be happy to oblige.
Twelve minutes to restored credibility
I think you will have no trouble accomodating all of the above points into a single 60
Minutes segment. If you do, and if you broadcast that segment, you will turn your
currently failing grades for competence and integrity into high As, and you will lift
the status of 60 Minutes to a level never before reached in American journalism. If you
do not, you will credit 60 Minutes with the dubious achievement of having broadcast the
most concentrated segment of hate propaganda ever to make its appearance in the
mainstream media.
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike
Wallace.
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Morley Safer Letter 17 28Oct99 CBS must produce its evidence
"At the end of June 1941 the NKVD massacred 10,000 prisoners in Lviv."
Nicolas Werth
In connection with the photograph below, the caption referring to "hundreds of bodies"
at Vinnytsia may be somewhat of an underestimate, as other sources give higher counts,
as for example in a Chronology of Major Events, opposite the date 13-17 July, 1943, the
following entry: "An international medical commission with representation from neutral
powers examines the graves of 9,439 victims of NKVD shootings (1937-8) in Vinnytsia"
(Yury Boshyk, Ukraine during World War II: History and its aftermath, Canadian Institute
of Ukrainian Studies, Edmonton, 1986, p. 257).
October 28, 1999
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
Jews massacred Ukrainians in pre-German Lviv
One cannot read the history of the 1941 German invasion of Ukraine without endlessly
bumping into accounts of the massacre of Ukrainians by the retreating Jewish-dominated
NKVD. In reinforcement of the many quotations which I brought to your attention in my
letter to you of 04Jul99, I presently enclose the chapter-long statement of Alfred M. de
Zayas, and I add below the briefer statement of Nicolas Werth:
The rapid German advance in the first months of the war forced the NKVD
to evacuate several prisons, labor colonies, and camps that would
otherwise have fallen into enemy hands. Between July and December
1941, 210 colonies, 135 prisons, and 27 camps, containing nearly
750,000 prisoners, were transferred to the east. Summarizing "gulag
activity in the Great Patriotic War," the Gulag chief, Ivan Nasedkin,
claimed that "on the whole, the evacuation of the camps was quite well
organized." He went on to add, however, that "because of the shortage
of transport, most of the prisoners were evacuated on foot, over
distances that sometimes exceeded 600 miles." One can well imagine the
condition in which the prisoners arrived at their destinations. When
there was not enough time for a camp to be evacuated, as was often the
case in the opening weeks of the war, the prisoners were simply
executed. This was particularly the case in western Ukraine, where at
the end of June 1941 the NKVD massacred 10,000 prisoners in Lviv, 1,200
in the prison at Lutsk, 1,500 in Stanislwow, and 500 in Dubno. When
the Germans arrived, they discovered dozens of mass graves in the
regions of Lviv, Zhytomyr, and Vynnytsa. Using these "Judeo-Bolshevik
atrocities" as a pretext, the Nazi Sonderkommandos in their turn
immediately massacred tens of thousands of Jews.
Nicolas Werth in Stephane Courtois, et al., The Black Book of
Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press,
Cambridge Massachusetts and London England, 1999, pp. 225-226.
The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny is a lie of Orwellian
proportions
Of course my reason for bringing these two additional accounts to your attention is to
underline the admission that journalistic ethics demands that you make - that your
23Oct94 60 Minutes story The Ugly Face of Freedom got things exactly backwards. In the
days prior to German occupation, it was Jews who were killing Ukrainians by the
thousands. This is attested to by many. The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny that in the
days prior to German occupation, Lviv Ukrainians killed some five to six thousand Jews
is attested to only by Simon Wiesenthal and yourself.
CBS attempts to re-write history
One motive for CBS Jews to broadcast the Ugly Face of Freedom appears to be to re-write
a history that they find unflattering. The historical record shows that Communist rule
over Ukraine was largely a Jewish-inflicted oppression and carnage of which the Lviv
massacre constituted a single incident. The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny, then, gives the
impression of being, in part, an attempt to replace the accurate perception of Jews
killing Ukrainians - or more generally, Jews killing Slavs - with the false image of
Ukrainians killing Jews. However, the CBS effort was insufficient to erase from the
historical record that the essence of Ukrainian-Jewish relations is captured not by the
Ugly Face of Freedom, but by scenes such as the one below.
Vynnytsa, Ukraine, June 1943. Here trenches dating from 1937-38 were opened and hundreds of bodies exhumed.
The authorities had built a park and summer theater on the site. Similar trenches were discovered in Zhytomyr,
Kamenets-Podolski, and other areas. Such macabre discoveries continue even today. In 1997, 1,100 bodies were
exhumed in St. Petersburg, and another 9,000 were found in a mass grave in the forests of Karelia.
Stephane Courtois, et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press,
Cambridge Massachusetts and London England, 1999, between pp. 202 and 203.
It's time for CBS to produce its evidence.
If you have evidence which demonstrates that the Wiesenthal-Safer accusation is true, I
invite you to break your five-year silence by placing it beside the evidence that I have
adduced so that comparisons can be made and the truth can be discovered. Send me your
evidence, and I will publish it on the Ukrainian Archive web site the same day, and web
visitors will be able to judge for themselves who is right. If you have no evidence on
your side, I invite you to break your five-year silence by withdrawing the
Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny.
If you continue to remain silent, the public will continue to judge not only that you
were in the wrong, but that you lack the integrity to admit it as well.
Lubomyr Prytulak
cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike
Wallace.
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Morley Safer Letter 18 05Apr00 Flip side of French drinking
"In 1991, Morley Safer's '60 Minutes' report on the possible heart
protective effects of drinking red wine led to a 44 percent increase
in red wine sales among Americans." - David Jernigan
"While men in Sweden can expect to live 76.5 years on average, a
French man's average lifespan is 74.1 years." - Cardiologist
Michel de Lorgeril
April 05, 2000
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
The weight of scientific evidence contradicts
your French Paradox conclusions
My letter to you of 21Apr99 on the question "Does drinking wine promote longevity?"
demonstrated that your conclusion that drinking 3 to 5 glasses of wine per day promotes
longevity could be seen to be unwarranted from no more than the data that you adduced in
its support. Today, I was astonished to read literature published by the Marin
Institute indicating that research literature that you have failed to bring to public
attention, either in your two French Paradox broadcasts or afterward, reveals that the
bulk of the evidence points to conclusions opposite to the ones that you advocated.
Below, I reproduce excerpts which illustrate the nature of this evidence from two Marin
Institute articles:
The Flip Side of French Drinking
by Hilary Abramson (c) 2000 The Marin Institute
Johnny Carson [who underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery last year] has some advice for
David Letterman [who is recovering from a quintuple bypass]:
"Drink more red wine."
That's the message Carson left for Letterman while he was in the hospital.
- Associated Press
One of the fathers of the "French Paradox" believes the time has come to "ban" the
expression his research team published in the mid '80s.
One of his countrymen, whose work helped make famous the paradox of having a high
saturated fat diet and lower than expected death rate from heart disease nearly a
decade ago on "60 Minutes," says that attributing a low rate of heart disease to
daily consumption of wine or other forms of alcohol is wrong.
A growing number of French health researchers have news for the rest of the world: It
is myth that the French are healthier than most everyone else because they drink. In
truth, the French are drowning in the grape and paying a hefty price for it.
"There is no scientific consensus today over the protective effect of alcohol," says
Dominique Gillot, France's secretary of state for health. "The link between the
quantity of alcohol consumed and increase of risk of diseases, particularly cancer,
is, on the other hand, scientifically validated."
The fact is that according to data from the world's largest study of heart disease,
conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) during the past decade in 21
countries with 10 million men and women, French heart disease statistics appear to
have been underestimated and the "French Paradox" overestimated. France's rate of
heart disease is actually similar to that of neighboring Italy, Spain, and southern
Germany - lower than many countries in the world, but hardly as remarkable as
reported in the 80s and early 90s.
The French drink one-and-a-half times more per capita than Americans and their death
rate from liver cirrhosis is more than one-and-a-half times greater than that in the
United States. According to WHO, France has the sixth highest adult per capita
alcohol consumption in the world. (The U.S. ranks 32nd.) Alcohol may be involved in
nearly half of the deaths from road accidents, half of all homicides, and one-quarter
of suicides, according to the French equivalent of the U.S. Institutes of Health.
And while coronary heart disease may be less pervasive in that country of 60 million
people than in many others, it is still the number one cause of death.
Within the past year, several other revelations have highlighted this
little-publicized, other side of French drinking:
According to the first French economic study of its kind, France is more like
the U.S. than Americans might realize in that alcohol also ranks first - above
tobacco - in its cost to society. Tobacco takes more of a toll than alcohol in
the rest of Europe, Canada and Australia.
The high premature death rate of French men is largely due to alcohol abuse. It
is nearly double the premature death rate of French women, and the magnitude of
the difference is the highest in Europe, according to the French government's
most recent report on health.
French youth, who can legally drink at age 16, prefer beer and distilled spirits
to wine and have increased their consumption five-fold since 1996 in part
because 12- to 14-year-olds are drinking and binge drinking. This has led to a
new government "War Against Drugs" that includes alcohol.
[...]
The French Paradox. Even in English the expression sounded romantic to 33.7 million
Americans who first heard it in a report by Morley Safer on "60 Minutes" in November
1991. Although the French eat fatty foods and smoke more than Americans, said Safer,
"if you're a middle-aged American man, your chances of dying of a heart attack are
three times greater than a Frenchman of the same age. Obviously, they're doing
something right - something Americans are not doing... Now it's all but confirmed:
Alcohol - in particular red wine - reduces the risk of heart disease."
Within four weeks, U.S. sales of red wine rocketed by 44 percent. American Airlines
reported being unable to stock enough red wine to meet demand. By February 1992, a
Gallup poll showed that 58 percent of Americans were aware of research linking
moderate drinking to lower rates of heart disease. According to the poll, consumers
had returned to drinking levels not seen since the mid-'80s. Although beer remained
the preferred drink of Americans, wine preference increased from 22 to 27 percent.
Five months after the 1992 poll, "60 Minutes" re-broadcast the "French Paradox"
segment. Sales of red wine shot up 49 percent over the previous year. Safer was
honored in France with a special "communication" prize from LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis
Vuitton.
During the next few years, the Wine Institute lobbied officials of the U.S.
Department of Health to reflect studies confirming the "60 Minutes" side of French
drinking in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, which the industry subsequently used to
