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Minutes to run a story defending the plant without disclosing its ownership.
October 23, 1999
Morley Safer
60 Minutes, CBS Television
51 W 52nd Street
New York, NY
USA 10019
Morley Safer:
Fifth anniversary of The Ugly Face of Freedom
Now that we have arrived at the fifth anniversary of your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast
The Ugly Face of Freedom, I think that all might agree that five years has given us
sufficient time to reflect on that broadcast, to arrive at a reasonable understanding of
its defects, and to decide what corrective action remains for 60 Minutes to undertake.
It is the purpose of the present letter to propose that the corrective action should be
a 12-minute 60 Minutes story under the title The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes, and
necessarily hosted by yourself.
Given the severe time limitation of a 12-minute segment, not to mention the public's
lack of interest in excessive detail, The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes will be forced to
overlook scores of lesser inaccuracies and biases, and will be forced to omit mention of
any defects that contain the least element of doubt. Rather, The Ugly Face of 60
Minutes will have no option but to outline only those major defects and errors
concerning which there is no dispute. Below is my listing of the points which - being
the most important and the least disputable - are ones that The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes
should include.
Who did it?
The authorship of The Ugly Face of Freedom was Jewish. The Ugly Face of 60
Minutes should start by acknowledging that The Ugly Face of Freedom was not just an
attack upon Ukrainians and upon the nation of Ukraine, but that it was a Jewish attack.
You will be able to convince your viewers of this merely by disclosing that every last
person bearing responsibility for the story, from the very top of the chain of command
to the very bottom, was Jewish:
(1) Laurence Tisch, Chairman and CEO of CBS
(2) Eric Ober, President of CBS News
(3) Don Hewitt, Executive Producer of 60 Minutes
(4) Jeffrey Fager, Producer of The Ugly Face of Freedom
(5) Morley Safer, Program Host
(6) Simon Wiesenthal, one of the two featured program witnesses
(7) Yaakov Bleich, the other of the two featured program witnesses
Moreover, The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes should acknowledge that it was unethical for CBS
to run a story on Ukraine without acknowledging its conflict of interest - the conflict
being that it is an integral part of Jewish culture to nourish fear and hatred of
Ukrainians, and yet 60 Minutes which was owned and operated by Jews undertook to
broadcast what purported to be an objective, investigative-journalism story on Ukraine.
If, to imagine a comparable case, CBS management jointly owned a chicken-packing plant
that had been cited for sanitation violations, then it would be unethical for 60 Minutes
to run a story defending the plant without disclosing its ownership.
One of the authors of The Ugly Face of Freedom may have been a Gestapo
agent. Of all the individuals in the above list, I see no need to discuss
transgressions beyond those committed in creating the broadcast, except in one case
where it is of the highest relevance - and that is the case of Simon Wiesenthal whom you
bring forward to testify concerning Nazi collaboration when he himself appears to be a
Nazi collaborator of major proportions, possibly with the blood of many on his hands,
and possibly much of it Jewish blood. The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes should disclose the
suspect nature of Wiesenthal's past, as for example the occasion on which Simon
Wiesenthal was allowed by his German captors to keep two pistols, or the occasion on
which other Jews were executed following their recapture after escaping, whereas Simon
Wiesenthal was relieved of work and put on double rations. This information is highly
relevant, as it suggests the possibility that Simon Wiesenthal used 60 Minutes to offer
false testimony concerning Nazi collaboration partly in order to conceal his own guilt.
What did they do?
The attempt on the part of CBS Jews steeped in a culture of hatred toward Ukrainians to
report on Ukraine resulted in outstanding distortions which can be corrected as follows:
(1) In the pre-German interval, Ukrainians did not kill Jews. The Ugly Face of 60
Minutes should disclose to its viewers that the Wiesenthal-Safer calumny - that prior to
the arrival of German forces, Ukrainians killed some five to six thousand Jews - is
without support.
(2) In the pre-German interval, Jews did kill Ukrainians. The Ugly Face of 60
Minutes should disclose that in the days prior to occupation by German forces, the
Jewish-dominated NKVD tortured and murdered Ukrainians by the thousands.
(3) The Yaakov Bleich stories cannot be substantiated. The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes
should disclose that the Yaakov Bleich stories of elderly Jews being stabbed and left
for dead in two different locations in Ukraine cannot be substantiated.
(4) Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian patriot. The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes should
balance negative Stepan Bandera coverage by disclosing that Bandera was arrested by the