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Complete files of cases involving foreigners almost certainly were preserved. Diplomats should continue to press Soviet authorities to clear up the Wallenberg mystery...
...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...
...Raoul Wallenberg was not the only one who saved Jews and other refugees by issuing them escape visas, a modern historian told 50 people at the Cambridge Organization of Portuguese Americans...
SEPARATED. Peter Jennings, 48, dapper anchor of ABC-TV's World News Tonight; and Kati Marton, 38, author of Wallenberg and An American Woman; after eight years of marriage, two children; in New York City...
Moscow has never fully explained either the circumstances of his death or why it had him arrested in the first place, though some historians suggest that the Soviets considered him a U.S. agent. Thus far the statue of Wallenberg, a gift of former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Nicolas Salgo, has drawn no official comment from Moscow or Budapest...