COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION NOVEMBER 9 AND 10, 1971 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Affairs U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1972 70-614 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $1.25 COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS THOMAS E. MORGAN, Pennsylvania, Chairman PETER H. B. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD, Michigan DANTE B, FASCELL, Florida J. IRVING WHALLEY, Pennsylvania H. R. GROSS, Iowa F. BRADFORD MORSE, Massachusetts VERNON W. THOMSON, Wisconsin DONALD M. FRASER, Minnesota PAUL FINDLEY, Illinois BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York JOHN BUCHANAN, Alabama JOHN C. CULVER, Iowa SHERMAN P. LLOYD, Utah LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana J. HERBERT BURKE, Florida ABRAHAM KAZEN, JR., Texas SEYMOUR HALPERN, New York LESTER L. WOLFF, New York GUY VANDER JAGT, Michigan JONATHAN B. BINGHAM, New York ROBERT H. STEELE, Connecticut GUS YATRON, Pennsylvania PIERRE S. DU PONT, Delaware CHARLES W. WHALEN, JR., Ohio ROY J. BULLOCK, Staf Administrator SUBCOMMITTEE ON EUROPE BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL, New York, Chairman WAYNE L. HAYS, Ohio PETER H. B. FRELINGHUYSEN, New Jersey CORNELIUS E. GALLAGHER, New Jersey PAUL FINDLEY, Illinois JOHN S. MONAGAN, Connecticut J. HERBERT BURKE, Florida LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana JOHN BUCHANAN, Alabama GUS YATRON, Pennsylvania SHERMAN P. LLOYD, Utah ROY A. TAYLOR, North Carolina GUY VANDER JAGT, Michigan MORGAN F. MURPHY, Illinois CLIFFORD P. HACKETT, Subcommittee Staff Consultant DORA B, MCCRACKEN, Staff Assistant (II) CONTENTS1 Page 2 25 19 39 10 55 49 35 28 75 LIST OF WITNESSES Tuesday, November 9, 1971: Bailey, F. Lee, representing the League for Repatriation of Russian Jews.. of New York... of Alabama. New York. Moscow.. New York, New York.. Jewry, New Jersey- Jewry, New York, N.Y. Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y. Anderson, Hon. John B., a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois. Maryland. New York... tional Council... Washington, United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.- Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry--- Ohio.. 80 67 122 101 130 116 140 148 93 132 87 153 STATEMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS New York, New York.. of Michigan. New York.-- 155 158 159 1 An index to these hearings appears on p. 311. Drinan, Hon. Robert F., a Representative in Congress from the State of Page Eilberg, Hon. Joshua, a Representative in Congress from the State of Fascell, Hon. Dante B., a Representative in Congress from the State of Forsythe, Hon. Edwin B., a Representative in Congress from the State of Giaimo, Hon. Robert N., a Representative in Congress from the State of Halpern, Seymour, a Representative in Congress from the State of New Harrington, Hon. Michael J., a Representative in Congress from the Karth, Hon. Joseph E., a Representative in Congress from the State of Long, Hon. Clarence D., a Representative in Congress from the State of Mathias, Hon. Charles McC., Jr., a U.S. Senator from the State of Mitchell, Hon. Parren J., a Representative in Congress from the State of McClory, Hon. Robert, a Representative in Congress from the State of 38 O'Neill, Hon. Thomas P., Jr., a Representative in Congress from the State Peyser, Hon. Peter A., a Representative in Congress from the State of Podell, Hon. Bertram L., a Representative in Congress from the State of Rhodes, Hon. John J., a Representative in Congress from the State of Sisk, Hon. B. F., a Representative in Congress from the State of California- 198 Widnall, Hon. William B., a Representative in Congress from the State of Alpert, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard, and Braverman, Mr. and Mrs. Bert, joint statement of, submitted by Congressman Robert McClory- Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, text of letter to Mr. Richard Maass, American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry from Owen S. 203 Bronstein, Rabbi Harry, President, Al Tidom Association, Inc., statement Chicago Community Council of Jewish Organizations, by Joel J. Spray- regen, Chairman of its Soviet Jewry Committee, statement of.. Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on.-- 215 226 Fact Sheet on Soviet Jewry, submitted by Mr. Richard Maass, Chairman, American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry- Human Rights, Universal Declaration of -- Jewish Prisoners in the Soviet Union, chart submitted by Mr. Richard Maass, Chairman, American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry-, Letter submitted by Congressman Jonathan B. Bingham from Rabbi Charles Sheer, Jewish Chaplain, Columbia University in the City of New York, to Mr. Richard T. Davies, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, dated November 10, 1971, including-- Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily News Bulletin, April 1, 1971, on the murder of a Jewish scholar in Minsk, and the burning of its matzoth Jewish Telegraphic Agency News Bulletin, October 4, 1971, describing the order to close one of the three remaining synagogues in Moscow - 232 Soviet Jews: Fact and Fiction, excerpt from the Novosti Press Agency, Potma: Repression of Jews in the Soviet Union, edited by Louis Rosen- Page 244 251 257 Racial Discrimination, text of International Convention on the Elimina tion of all forms of... Congressman John B. Anderson.- Richard Maass, Chairman, American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry---- prepared by Barbara Mihalchenko, Foreign Affairs Analyst, Foreign Affairs Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Trial of Boris Azernikov, prepared by Carol Richman, from American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry Newsletter, November 1, 1971.---Weiss, Rabbi Avriaham, Board Member, Committee on Russian Jewry, Additional Remarks.. 263 302 309 |