The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies

February 6, 2005

Porter J. Goss
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C.  20505 

Dear Mr. Goss:

We are surprised and disappointed that the Central Intelligence Agency has failed to disclose, as required by law, hundreds of thousands of pages of documents concerning U.S. policy regarding Nazi war criminals in the years following World War II.

The Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998, sponsored by U.S. Senator Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), requires that "all classified Nazi war criminal records of the United States" be "made available to the public."

According to the New York Times (Jan. 30, 2005), the CIA "has sometimes agreed to provide information about former Nazis, but not about the extent of the agency's dealings with them after World
War II."  This position clearly appears to conflict with both the spirit and letter of the DeWine-Maloney law.

In recent years, numerous governments and institutions have taken appropriate steps to face up to their actions during the Holocaust and its aftermath.   Full disclosure by the CIA of all documents pertaining to U.S. dealings with Nazi war criminals is not only required by law.  It will also help America face up to the consequences and lessons of a troubling chapter in our nation's history.

Sincerely,


Stephen J. Solarz
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1975-1993

Prof. David S. Wyman
Author, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945

Hon. Edward I. Koch
Mayor of New York City, 1978-1989
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1969-1977

Anthony Lake
Professor, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service;
National Security Adviser to the President, 1993-1997;
Director of Policy Planning, State Department, 1977-1981

Marvin Kalb
Veteran news correspondent and Founding Director of the Shorenstein
Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, at Harvard University

Rev. Dr. Joseph C. Hough, Jr.
President
Union Theological Seminary

Henry Morgenthau III
Social Historian

Prof. Samantha Power
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Problem From
Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Prof. David Levering Lewis
Department of History, New York University
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of W.E.B.DuBois

Harrison J. Goldin
New York City Comptroller, 1974-1989
New York State Senator, 1966-1973

Rev. David L. Bartlett
Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Preaching and Communication
Yale University Divinity School

Maxine Clarke Beach, Ph.D.
Vice President and Dean
Drew Theological School

Prof. Gary Pence
Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Pastoral Theology
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Kenneth R. Weinstein, Ph.D.
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Hudson Institute

Richard Perle
Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Prof. Walter Reich
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior
and former Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sister Dr. Lorelei F. Fuchs, SA
Associate Director
Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute

Prof. Christopher R. Browning
Department of History
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Prof. Deborah Dwork
Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Clark University

Prof. Robert A. Schneider
Chair, Department of History
Catholic University of America

Cynthia Ozick
Writer

Prof. Richard L. Rubenstein
President Emeritus
Distinguished Professor of Religion
University of Bridgeport

Lawrence F. Kaplan
Senior Editor, The New Republic
Senior Fellow, The Hudson Institute

Prof. Michael Berenbaum
Department of History
University of Judaism

Prof. Michaela L.Z. Farber
Director, National Research Center for Child and Family Services
Catholic University of America

Neal Sher
former Director, Office of Special Investigations,
Department of Justice

David Brenner
Comedian

Prof. Euan K. Cameron
Academic Dean and Professor of Church History
Union Theological Seminary

Rev. Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Stonehill College

Bernard Weinraub
Facing History and Ourselves

Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D
Professor of Social Ethics
Director, Catholic-Jewish Studies Program
Catholic Theological Union

Clifford D. May
former New York Times correspondent and editor

Prof. Robert L. Brawley
Albert G. McGaw Professor of New Testament
McCormick Theological Seminary

Mark Podwal
Artist

Prof. Hasia Diner
Chair, Department of Hebrew Judaic Studies
New York University

Michael J. Horowitz
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget, 1981-85

Prof. Leon Stein
Department of History, Roosevelt University (Chicago)
Education Director, Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois

Prof. Claudio Fogu
Department of History
University of Southern California

Prof. Kenneth Anderson
Washington College of Law, American University
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Rev. Vincent A. Lapomarda, S. J.
College of the Holy Cross

Prof. Susannah Heschel
Chair, Jewish Studies Program
Dartmouth College

Prof. David Newbury
Gwendolen Carter Professor of African Studies
Smith College

John Loftus
former Justice Department prosecutor;
President, Florida Holocaust Museum

Michael Zank STM PhD
Associate Professor of Religion
Boston University

Jeanette Friedman
Editor, Together: The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors

Sister Ruth Lautt
Sisters of St. Dominic

Dr. Marcia Sachs Littell
Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Shale D. Stiller, Esq.

Prof. Gil Troy
Department of HIstory
McGill University

Dr. Michael A. Ledeen
Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
former Special Adviser to the Secretary of State

Prof. David Daniels III
Professor of Church History
McCormick Theological Seminary

Rev. Dr. Kathleen J. Rusnak, M. Div., Ph.D.
Pastor, Our Saviour Lutheran Church

Laurent Murawiec
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Harvey J. Feldman
U.S. Ambassador (ret.)
Senior Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
Editor, The Journal of International Security Affairs

Ben Brafman, Esq.
Brafman & Ross, P.C.

Dr. John Fonte
Director, Center for American Common Culture
Hudson Institute

Prof. Ronald Radosh
Prof. Emeritus of History, City  University of New York,
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Dr. Racelle Weiman
Director, Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Janis Ian
Singer-Songwriter

Nina Shea, Director
Center for Religious Freedom
Freedom House

Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel
Director, Remember the Women Institute

Prof. Catharine Newbury
Professor of Government, Smith College and
Five College Professor of Government and African Studies

Prof. Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Department of Judaic Studies
Indiana University

Yaakov Kirschen
Cartoonist, "Dry Bones"

Sister Mary C. Boys
Skinner & McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology
Union Theological Seminary

Rev. Dr. Eugene Gorski, C.S.C.
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame

Dr. Hille Haker
Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics
Harvard University Divinity School

Prof. Jacob Neusner
Research Professor of Theology
Bard College

Neshama Carlebach
Singer-Songwriter

Prof. John C. Zimmerman
Department of History
University of Nevada Las Vegas

Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick
Christian Solidarity International

Reverend Dr. Emilie M. Townes
Carolyn Williams Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics
Union Theological Seminary

Maurice Sendak
Artist

Dr. Efraim Zuroff
Simon Wiesenthal Center

Marc Weiner
Comedian

Rev. Dr. James M. Hutchens
Chaplain (Brigadier General) US Army (Ret.)

Dr. David Golinkin
President
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies

Prof. Lynn Rapaport
Chair, Department of Sociology
Pomona College

Dr. Eunice G. Pollack
Departments of History and Judaic Studies
University of North Texas

Prof. Lawrence Douglas
Department of History
Amherst College

Ron Rosenbaum
Editor, Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism

James Carroll
Author, Constantine's Sword

Prof. Leslie W. Tentler
Department of History
Catholic University of America

Prof. Marc Lee Raphael
Department of Religion
College of William and Mary

Thane Rosenbaum
Novelist and Professor of Law, City University of New York

Prof. Mary C. Doak
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame

Prof. Gershon Greenberg
Department of Religion
American University

Prof. Fred A. Lazin
Ben-Gurion University

Jeremy Ben-Ami
Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor to President Clinton

Prof. Frederick L. Ahearn, Jr.
Department of Theology
Catholic University of America

Michael Moorcock
Writer

Prof. Padriac O’Hare
Professor of Religious Studies and
Director, Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations,
Merrimack College

Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Director
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota

Prof. Paul L. Rose
Pennsylvania State University
Author of Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project

Dr. Samuel Totten
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Book Review Editor, Journal of Genocide Research

Prof. Laurel Leff
Department of Communications, Northeastern University
Author of Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's
Most Important Newspaper

Laurence S. Tauber, Esq.
Cohen Tauber Spievack & Wagner LLP

Flynt Leverett
Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy
The Brookings Institution

Prof. Kenneth Lieberthal
Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

Prof. Zev Garber
Editor, Studies in the Shoah
Los Angeles Valley College

Mark Jay Mirsky
Writer and Editor of Fiction

Dr. Carol Rittner RSM
Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Nathan Lewin, Esq.
Honorary President, American
Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists

Prof. Carolyn Dean
Department of History
Brown University

Jules Polonetsky
former New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs

Dr. Harold Brackman
Simon Wiesenthal Center

Prof. Isabel V. Hull
Department of History
Cornell University

David Satter
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute

Prof. Alexander Alvarez
Department of Criminal Justice
Northern Arizona University

Prof. Frank Hugh Adler
DeWitt Wallace Professor of Political Science
Macalester College

Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp, S.P.
Director of Teacher Education
University of San Francisco

Prof. Francis R. Nicosia
Department of History
Saint Michael's College, Vermont

Prof. Geoffrey J. Giles
Department of History and
Co-director, Center for Modern German Studies
Univesrity of Florida

Prof. Bertram Grodon
Department of History
Mills College

Prof. Sidney Bolkosky
William A. Stirton Professor in the Social Sciences
University of Michigan-Dearborn

Prof. Anna M. Cienciala
Department of History
University of Kansas

Prof. Paul Bookbinder
Director of European Studies - Department of History
University of Massachusetts, Boston

Joe Kubert
Artist

Prof. Jeffry Diefendorf
Department of History
University of New Hampshire

Prof. Harold James
Department of History
Princeton University

Prof. Robert A. Krieg
Department of History
University of Notre Dame
Author, Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany

Prof. Saul Newman
Department of Political Science
American University

Prof. Stephen Caldwell Wright
Department of English
Seminole Community College

Prof. Penina Glazer
Department of History
Hampshire College

Prof. Gerald Sorin
Department of History
State University of New York at New Paltz

Prof. Janet R. Walton
Professor of Worship
Union Theological Seminary

Prof. Jay Geller
Department of History
Vanderbilt University

Prof. Eric Loewy
Department of History
University of California at Davis

Prof. Stephen H. Norwood
Department of History
University of Oklahoma

Francine Klagsbrun
Writer

Prof. Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM
Department of Theology
Jesuit School of Theology

Prof. Paul Oppenheimer
Department of History
City College and Graduate Center of CUNY

Prof. Harry Reicher
University of Pennsylvania School of Law

Rev. Ivan A. Rogers
Member emeritus, National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel

Prof. M. Michael Thaler
Department of History
University of California, Santa Cruz

Prof. Chaim I. Waxman
Department of Sociology
Rutgers University

Prof. Thomas Cushman
Department of Sociology
Wellesley College

Prof. Melvin Small
Department of History
Wayne State University

Dimitry Anselme
Principal, Academy of the Pacific Rim

Adam Kubert
Artist

Prof. Michla Pomerance
Faculty of Law
Hebrew University

Rabbi Jonathan Lipnick
Jewish Theological Seminary

Lance A. Kawesch, Esq.
Partner, Duane Morris LLP

Prof. Joseph Bendersky
Department of History
Virginia Commonwealth University

Martin Ostrow
Filmmaker (America and the Holocaust)

Prof. Monty Noam Penkower
Author, The Jews Were Expendable:
Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust

Dr. Paul-William Burch
Departments of Education and Judaic Studies
SUNY-Binghamton

Prof. Harvey Cox
Hollis Professor of Divinity
Harvard University

Prof. Allen Podet
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
State University of New York College at Buffalo

Dr. Steven L. Jacobs
Department of History
University of Alabama

Dr. Alex Grobman
Brenn Institute

Prof. Jonathan S. Perry
Department of History
University of Central Florida

Prof.  Lawrence Baron
Director, Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies
San Diego State University

Prof. Rochelle Millen
Department of Religion
Wittenberg University

Prof. Dennis P. Reinhartz
Department of History
University of Texas at Arlington

Stuart Erdheim
Filmmaker

Dr. Phyllis Chesler
Emerita Professor and author of The New Anti-Semitism

Dr. C. Beth Burch
Departments of Education and Judaic Studies
SUNY-Binghamton

Dr. Bernice Lerner
Director of Professional Development
Center for the Advancement of Ethics
Boston University

Pierre Sauvage
President, Chambon Foundation

Prof. Michael Signer
Department of Theology
Notre Dame University

Prof. Haim Genizi
Department of History
Bar Illan University

Miriam Chaikin
Writer

Prof. David Crowe
Department of History
Elon University

Andrew E. Lewin, Esq.

Prof. Alan Berger
Raddock Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies
Florida Atlantic University.

Steven P. Dlott, Esq.

Prof. Linda P. Donaldson
National Catholic School of Social Service
Catholic University of America

Archie Rand
Presidential Professor of Art
Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Prof. Randall C. Zachman
Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame

Dr. Baila Round Shargel
Department of History
State University of New York - Purchase College

Prof. Paul B. Miller
Department of History
McDaniel College / University of Sarajevo

Prof. Bat-Ami Zucker
Department of History
Bar-Ilan University

William S. Bingham, Esq.

Prof. Robert Stolzer
Department of Fine Arts
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Livia S. Yanowicz
LSY Consulting

Dr. Rafael Medoff
Director, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies


(Institutions listed for identification purposes only.)


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