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true, could be the link between him and Rabinovich.

Luchansky was born in the 1940s, possibly in Latvia, according to several sources

contacted by the Post. He became a career KGB officer and served overseas in a

variety of posts. By the mid-1980s, Luchansky set up and ran Vienna-based Nordex, a

KGB-owned and operated business designed to launder money for overseas intelligence

operatives.

Nordex's primary trading partner in Ukraine was government-owned Ukragrotekhservis,

U.S. Congressman Dan Burton alleged during congressional hearings in April 1997.

Burton identified Rabinovich as Luchansky's key Ukrainian lieutenant, serving in a

variety of capacities including, until 1995, Nordex vice president.

Rabinovich has stated repeatedly that he severed relations with Luchansky in 1995 due

to Nordex's poor international reputation. He has consistently denied participating

in any criminal activity while he worked for Nordex.

An April 1997 Time magazine article identified Luchansky as "the most pernicious

unindicted criminal in the world."

Luchansky's trading activities in the former Soviet Union encompass weapons, oil,

narcotics, natural gas, chemicals, precious metals, fertilizers, agricultural

commodities, and consumer goods.

Other Luchansky enterprises reportedly include prostitution, drug manufacture,

racketeering, influence peddling and fixed privatization auctions.

Nordex grossed $2 billion in 1994, investing some of its income in enterprises

ranging from a Moscow beer brewery to a Kyiv tire plant, a Magnitogorsk steel mill,

an Austrian health spa and even a Uruguayan car dealership, according to various

media reports.

Luchansky's biggest business coup came in 1993, when he engineered a fuel-for-food

deal between Russia and Ukraine.

In 1995, after meeting at a Democratic Party fundraiser with U.S. President Bill

Clinton and sparking a U.S. political scandal, Luchansky fell under increasingly

intense international investigation.

In 1996 a $35 million gold mine deal brokered by Luchansky between the Kazakhstan

government and a Canadian mining company flopped, cutting into Nordex earnings.

Nordex has reportedly suffered in the wake of the emerging-markets economic crisis.

Luchansky maintains a residence in the Israeli seaside town of Netanya, a Mecca for

Soviet-region emigres and scene of intense Russian mob activity, the Jerusalem Post

newspaper reported.

The Post was unable to contact Luchansky for comment and his whereabouts are unknown.

I Expand My Summary Table Once Again

The table which I have been developing in my previous four letters to you can now be

elaborated with the Leonid Wolf entry. As the SBU press release gives no dates for the

Leonid Wolf assassinations, I am assuming that they took place in the last five years:

Date of my letter

Subject of my letter

Date of Attack

Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom

04Jul99

The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny

Summer 1941

25Jul99

Who did Israel Roitman murder?

1941

15May99

Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?

April 1979

30Jun99

Who murdered Vadim Boyko?

February 14, 1992

Violence that you might have encouraged by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom

09Apr99

Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?

Summer 1995

17May99

Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?

July 7-8, 1997

01Jul99

Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?

August 11, 1997

27Jul99

Who did Leonid Wolf murder?

1994-1999

And I Find My Earlier Conclusions Strengthened

For your 23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom, you went to Ukraine

determined to broadcast the story - no matter what the evidence - of Ukrainians

oppressing and murdering Jews. In order to do so, you had to blind yourself to the

plentiful evidence that exactly the opposite was taking place. The reality is that

Ukraine is being plundered and assaulted by a Jewish mafia based in Israel. You can

begin your investigation of this phenomenon with the cases of the following three

Israeli citizens: (1) "the most pernicious unindicted criminal in the world" Grigory

Luchansky, (2) his "key Ukrainian lieutenant" Vadim Rabinovich, and (3) "contract

killer" Leonid Wolf. Please note that in your smearing of Ukraine, you were unable to

come up with evidence of a Ukrainian mafia based in Ukraine and victimizing Israel. The

evidence was the opposite, but you were not interested in evidence.

But since the subject of our discussion is not merely crime, but rather cross-ethnic

violence, I restrict my attention to assassin Leonid Wolf, and with respect to Leonid

Wolf, I ask you to note that you were unable to come up with evidence of a Ukrainian

assassin who roamed Israel murdering as he went, especially one whom Israel, fearing the

vengeance of a powerful Ukraine, neglected to arrest and put on trial, but merely banned

from Israeli soil for a time.

Mr. Safer, Ukraine's plunderers and assassins cannot operate in a vacuum. They need

support. They need Swiss banks to stash their loot. They need Israel to provide them

with sanctuary. They need journalists to smear their victims. And so, although you

have lost all claim to journalistic competence and integrity, at least you can console

yourself with not being alone and unappreciated. Indeed, you are a valued member of a

large and successful team. Grigory Luchansky, Vadim Rabinovich, and Leonid Wolf