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Wiesenthal to Bailey (Director RLD)   26-Nov-1984   I cannot believe this
The statements "What's now?" and "in his intern" appearing below were in the original Wiesenthal letter.  Possibly a better translation of the original Valentyn Moroz statements would have been "What's new?" and "inside him."

From the letter below, Simon Wiesenthal appears to have met and talked with George Bailey in Vienna, it would seem in an effort to exert control over the content of RFE/RL.

We have already discussed Valentyn Moroz's "every cat is an antidog" statement, and concluded that it was both true and innocuous.  Simon Wiesenthal below, however, seems to imply that it is false and malevolent.  Simon Wiesenthal, then, is setting up a straw man — taking Moroz to meaning something that he could not have meant, omitting Moroz's subsequent explanation of what he in fact did mean.

What characterizes Simon Wiesenthal's letter is its lack of content.  He does not recollect any statements that had been made at the Vienna meeting, does not reiterate any of the facts or arguments put forward at that time.  In the present letter, moreover, he adduces no facts or arguments — merely alluding to the "every cat an antidog" statement as if its meaning was self-evident.  Nor does he specify precisely what it is that he wants RFE/RL to do with respect to Valentyn Moroz.

Nor is any information given concerning Mr. Wiesenthal's standing with RFE/RL.  Why is RFE/RL meeting with Wiesenthal at all?  Why does Mr. Wiesenthal appear to think that the exercise of his influence alone — devoid of facts or arguments — could be sufficient to get RFE/RL to alter its programming?  One may wonder whether any Ukrainian representative is accorded similar sympathy in his efforts to influence the content of RFE/RL.

Finally, nor is there any hint that any decision made with respect to Valentyn Moroz will follow an adversarial procedure, with both sides represented.  One may conjecture that Valentyn Moroz will never be informed of the Wiesenthal attempts to silence him, and it follows will never be given any chance to explain or justify his statements, and all the more will never be informed that his fate is being decided, or once decided, the manner of its being decided.

It might be kept in mind that there is an alternative to all these sub rosa manipulations.  Specifically, as Valentyn Moroz's article was published in the Ukrainian Voice/Canadian Farmer, Simon Wiesenthal had the option of writing a letter to the editor of that same newspaper.  In that way the debate could have been carried out in an open forum, and Wiesenthal's facts and arguments could have been given the opportunity to persuade a large number of Ukrainians, and such public facts and arguments also would have been opened up to correction if they were wrong.  But that, apparently, is not the way Simon Wiesenthal chooses to go about strangling careers.
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Dear Mr. Bailey,

I'm sending you a photocopy of The Ukrainian Weekly newspaper "Ukrainian Voice/Canadian Farmer (no.21 — from this year), which I have received from Canadian friends.  There is an article of a certain Mr. Valentine MOROZ about Ukrainian Jewish relations.  This article presents anti-Semitism as something natural.
Mr. Moroz wrote:
"Anti-Semitism?  What's now?  Every cat is an anti-dog and every dog is an anti-cat.  Every non-Ukrainian is anti-Ukrainian and every non-Semite has in his intern something anti-Semitic."

My friends from Toronto wrote me that Valentine MOROZ is a permanent contributor (freelance) to the Ukrainian section of RADIO LIBERTY.

Dear Mr. Bailey, after our talk in Vienna, I cannot believe this.  If this is true, I must say that I'd a wrong impression about our talk.


Yours sincerely,

[illegible handwriting]

Simon Wiesenthal

Encl.

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