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<text id=90TT1330>
<title>
May 21, 1990: The Wallenberg Mystery
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
SAKHAROV, Page 58
The Wallenberg Mystery
By Andrei Sakharov
</hdr>
<body>
<p>[From Memoirs. (c) 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Translated by
Richard Lourie]
</p>
<p> One of the items in the bag stolen from the dental clinic
in Gorky was a letter about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish
diplomat who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during World
War II, then vanished when the Soviets occupied Budapest.
Soviet authorities have maintained that Wallenberg died in
prison in 1947 and the file of his case was destroyed. The
latter assertion most assuredly is untrue: NKVD and KGB
investigation files are stamped TO BE PRESERVED FOREVER; pages
may be removed on instructions from the top, but a file is
never completely eradicated.
</p>
<p> At the Installation I learned how all this works from a KGB
officer who'd had the job of sorting files. In every case, the
first page of a file was retained. If a person had been
executed, an affidavit that the death sentence had been carried
out had to be included, along with the serial number of the
pistol used.
</p>
<p> Complete files of cases involving foreigners almost
certainly were preserved. Diplomats should continue to press
Soviet authorities to clear up the Wallenberg mystery.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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