Tscherim Soobzokov

Tsherim Soobzokov was a sixty-one year old Circassian accused of collaborating with the Nazis during the invasion of the USSR and serving as a Waffen-SS officer. Soobzokov always denied these charges and sued CBS and the New York Times. He was notably supported by Pat Buchanan [http://www.buchanan.org/pma-99-1105-wallstjl.html] and Congressman Robert Roe.

In 2006, declassified documents of the Central Intelligence Agency confirmed [http://www.archives.gov/iwg/about/press-releases/nr06-114.html] that Soobzokov had been a CIA agent in Jordan and that the agency had misled the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service on Soobzokov's Nazi past. This was part of a wider post-World War II program of the CIA's of collaborating with former Nazis living in hiding. Historian Richard Breitman concluded based on these documents [http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/breitman.pdf] that Soobzokov had indeed strong ties to the SS and that he had admitted to the CIA his participation in an execution commando searching for Jews and Komsomol members.

On August 15, 1985 a pipe bomb set outside his home Paterson, New Jersey fatally wounded Soobzokov. An anonymous caller claiming to represent the Jewish Defense League (JDL) said they had carried out the bombing. A spokesman for the JDL later denied responsibility.

References

* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/explosions/index.html?query=SOOBZOKOV,%20TSCHERIM&field=per&match=exact NYTimes search for SOOBZOKOV, TSCHERIM]
* [http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/breitman.pdf Historian Richard Breitman's file on Soobzokov]
* [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060606-113344-6497r.htm Washington Time article]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/world/americas/07nazi.html A 2006 New York Times article regarding the CIAs collaboration with former Nazis, including Soobzokov]