Posted on 07/08/2007 8:27:12 PM PDT by JohnA
MOSCOW. July 8 (Interfax) - The Federal Security Service has been assisting the United States in investigating crimes against humanity.
"Since 1994, 60,000 pages of documents dealing with Nazi crimes during World War II, kept at the FSB's Central Archives, have been handed over to the United States," Vasily Khristoforov, the head of the FSB's Register and Archives Department, said in an interview with Interfax.
Cooperation between American and Russian law enforcement and judiciary agencies led to a court ruling to deprive a Nazi accomplice in the extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto of American citizenship, he said.
Copies of trophy documents dealing with the Travniki training center have been sent to the American judiciary to be used in a trial of former Soviet and now U.S. citizens Stadnik and Dmitrenko as part of the work to investigate crimes against humanity, Khristoforov said.
FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev, while addressing the Senate's Intelligence and Security Committee in June 2005, made special mention of the FSB's humanitarian cooperation with U.S. state and non- governmental organizations, he said.
Khristoforov also said that some documents of the FSB's Central Archives were published by Europe Publishing House in 2006 in releases about the crimes committee by Baltic collaborators during World War II.
On the initiative of the Russian envoy to the European Court of Human Rights, archives materials are used when Russian citizen's suits against Latvia are heard, he said.
Just to put this into a perspective tangent, even at 60 pages per underwear stuff, it would take at least 1000 trips for Sandy Burglar accomplish the same thing.
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