UMENT 1 FROM DOCUMENTS
     Four Mrs. Louis-Phillippe SIMARD, Manager, Post Determination Review

     FROM Lev GUNIN (FILE Number 2948-6524/ 95/76/23/18
     ID: 3082-7125/7174/7220/7231/7317/ )
     DOCUMENT NUMBER 2
     2.1. I was in grade 9, when voluntarism and  vulnerability  of my class
teacher, PERFILOVA Maria Michajlovna, converted me from a good school  pupil
and a promising
     young musician into a person without future, persecuted by KGB. She was
a communist party member and  an  outraged careerist.  She  took  one of  my
school essays -
     and  took it to KGB. She also made an open public court over me  at the
school,  not  waiting  for   KGB  command.   Officially   KGB  rejected  her
accusations. They found
     nothing, which could be considered as anti-Sovetism, in my composition.
But in ex-USSR  an obstruction, which Perfilova made me at school,  and  the
very fact that she
     was in KGB building to report on me  was enough to devastate  my  whole
life  and  to cause  what it  caused.  It is  also possible  that  rejecting
Perfilova (what made her
     insane) they secretly put my name on their black list already by then.

     2.2.  I was prevented from  becoming  a student of a  Music  College or
university,  and  later,  when I entered  music  studies  by a  miracle  and
graduated, I was prevented
     from a good musical carrier. In 1979 I  was brutally beaten  because of
an order from KGB. During  many years my social and professional status,  my
health, my privacy,
     my security,  even my  freedom and my  life were every minute  under  a
threat. Nobody knows what I came through -, and did not become an alcoholic,
or sadist, and
     never violated any criminal rule.

     2.3. Because I  felt  more  secure  among  other  persecuted people,  I
started to  cooperate with a number of human rights groups and movements and
with some other
     groups  and organizations. Most  of them were  non-conformist  art  and
poetry \ prose groups. I formed my own poetry circle where I was a leader. I
also organized a
     movement  in  opposition  to  ideologically  motivated  demolition   or
levelation  of Bobruysk's  18-19  century  architecture,  mostly  Jewish.  I
organized mass photographing
     of  the  center of Bobruysk.  The  local authorities  have unofficially
forbidden that. "Militia" several times arrested  my supporters, and me, our
photo films were
     confiscated. Only in the end of 1980-s I contacted Mr. V. Senderov, Mr.
V.  Batcshev, Mrs. Elena Bonner and other world-famous dissidents  and human
rights activists,
     and  also correspondents  of  the west media in Moscow. Only by  then I
already  had  permanent  contacts  with  some  representatives   of  foreign
parliaments and
     embassies,  but never  with  any intelligence. I also maintained  close
cooperation  with  two different  forces: Frankfurt-based  NTS and  National
Front of Belarus.

     2.4.  As  a  person   who   was  deeply   involved  in   the   cultural
self-determination process of the Soviet  Jews I also was the first activist
in Belarus, who combined several
     goals together. They  were: studies of Yiddish and Hebrew languages and
the  Jewish  history,  revitalization  of  Bobruysk's  Jewish  cultural  and
historical heritage,
     restoration of Jewish religious community, foundation of a Jewish club,
newspaper, theatre, and  schools. Nobody - except me - believed by then that
it might be
     possible. My poetry in Yiddish was  published  in  "Sovetisch Hiemland"
(Moscow)  and  "Der Arbeiter Stimme" (Warsaw). I also  became a co-editor of
one underground
     Jewish  magazine,  based  in Minsk. I  also became  known  in  cultural
circles in Moscow and Leningrad (St.-Petersburg). I maintained contacts with
the most famous
     personalities  like  composer D.  Shostakovich,  poet  A.  Voznesensky,
singers like V. Tolkunova, or L.  Leshchenko, and  others. In Minsk (where I
studied and worked 2
     times  a week)  I maintained almost close relationship  with  the whole
cultural   elite:  composers  (D.Smolski,   L.  Obeliovich,  G.  Vagner,  U.
Semeniako, and others),
     historians  (Tarasov, Zenon  Pozdniak  (later  leader of  the  National
Front),  V.  Posse,  my relative, A.  Gritzkievich, O. Dadiomova),  pop-rock
musicians, and so on.

     2.5.  During  short  periods  of  time  (in  1986-87)  it  looked  like
persecutions against  me were suspended or lightened. But in the same period
of time I started to be
     persecuted by another political force - by Israeli missionary  stuff in
Minsk and Bobruysk. By that time  my brother Vitaly - a talented painter and
brilliant businessman -
     organized one of the first free ("capitalist") enterprises  in Belarus.
I was  an administrator of one of its section, which  arranged invitation of
famous artists for tours in
     Minsk  and  Bobruysk. So,  my brother, Mr. Pinchas Plotkin,  an Yiddish
poet,  I, Mr. Marat  Kurtzer, and  Igor  Gorelik - we formed a first circle,
which achieved good results in
     restoring  Jewish life in Bobruysk.  A course of Yiddish,  a library, a
club, and  other activities became a reality and refreshed the  local Jewish
life. This was what Israelis
     did not want to allow. They wanted to eliminate the whole Jewish social
and  cultural life  in  ex-USSR. They suggested that if  life  in USSR would
become non-attractive
     for  the Jews, they could  more easily  leave for Israel. They also did
everything to  terrify  Jewish population  by  rumors  about pogroms, and by
other exaggerations.
     Missioners like  J. EDEL,  Arie ROTENBERG, or Dorit HE came to USSR  to
arrange total  control over  the  local  Jewish  life and to  put  down  any
competitive power. I new
     dozens  of other missioners who came to Minsk and Bobruysk to devastate
local Jewish life  and to jeopardize  mass migration to  Israel. They  often
expressed their
     hatred towards Soviet Jews.

     2.6.  Israelis  started  to  build their  own  activist infrastructure,
alternative  to ours. They attracted young aggressive careerists, convincing
them that they are totally
     protected, could commit any crimes - and  go unpunished. Those boys and
girls in  their  20-s  like  Boris Kagan, Dmitry  Levin,  Vova Kazinetz,  Z.
Fridburg and others were
     nothing  without Israeli  leadership.  Their  local  leader became Ilia
Rodov, my brother's school colleague. Rodov became a known local figure only
because my
     brother's, and  my  help. My  brother  Vitaly  helped him in everything
during their studies at the Art College, he presented Rodov to prominent and
influential people, and
     even helped  him by  giving him  money or work at his enterprise. Rodov
was  a   well-known  collaborationist:  he  cooperated  with  the  communist
authorities. He also was
     considered  in intellectual  circles as  KGB  informer  and  "comsomol"
activist. He often accused  and "denounced" Jewish "nationalists." But  very
soon he rapidly
     changed his views, expressing  interest  to Yiddish culture  (when  the
group of Yiddishists was the most powerful in Bobruysk). When the  influence
of Israelis
     increased,  he  rapidly changed  his opinion again "denouncing" Yiddish
and calling to "forget Yiddish and study Hebrew."  He was supported not only
by Israelis, but by
     the local communist authorities as well.

     2.7.  Even  by  then  I already  suspected  close  cooperation  between
Israelis -and  local  communist authorities.  When  Bobruysk  was a military
zone, and a special
     authorization was  needed for  foreigners to  visit that city, Israelis
went to Bobruysk easily.  They also had free meetings with people, which was
impossible for any other
     foreigners, for  example,  for Finish  Baptist missioners.  They openly
called  people  to  emigrate  to  Israel  using lie,  deception, threats and
profanation. They did
     everything  to discredit  my group, and me. Rodov's group has  the full
freedom  to  operate  and  to  work  with people.  We were  stopped  by  the
authorities, disrupted and
     persecuted. Supported by the  communists  Rodov announced himself as  a
chairman,  avoiding  open and free elections and his  followers formed local
"Jewish
     council." People - like me  - who restored the Jewish life  and created
the Jewish club, were expelled from that life and from that club.

     2.8. As soon as they seized the  power, "Rodovers" started to  suppress
all  activities and  cultural  events  in the Jewish  society.  They  ruined
everything that we created:
     very  soon,   including  Yiddish  course  and  all  other  courses  and
activities. They concentrated only on pro-Israeli propaganda and  propaganda
of immigration to Israel,
     Hebrew course and religious propaganda. When religious in Israel became
the most  influential  force in institutions,  which  maintained work  among
potential immigrants
     in  USSR,  Rodov  supporters  converted themselves into ultra-orthodox.
(Before that they were fighting atheists). They also  used to confiscate the
huge wave of help,
     gifts,  money,  which was streaming from the west Jewish communities to
Soviet Jews. They have  stolen  about  one  thousand valuable gift sets from
Baptist community
     of Finland to the local Jewish  community.  That gift  was  handed over
through Iakov  Gutman, an independent from  Israelis leader of Minsk's Jews,
to me. The sets were
     given for free delivery. I wanted to deliver them directly from my home
to  the people in exchange of their signatures in confirmation that they got
them free. But Rodov's
     group forced me (and Iakov Gutman) to hand them over to the club, using
dirty manipulations. Rodov and  his group  sold  the sets  as their  private
property. They openly
     violated  the criminal code  not  only by  then. They  also robbed  our
Jewish library  2 times, they threaten people by death, they corrupted local
officials, and they
     demanded money from people for information about Israel and for Israeli
visas.  They also  demanded money for the  "club needs", threatening  people
that - if they
     would refuse, they would be punished in Israel. Israelis also paid them
for their  services.  In  ex-USSR,  where an imported TV with video could be
almost as valuable as
     an apartment,  they  got  expensive valuable  things  from  Israelis as
gifts. I suspect  that they  were  paid by money, too.  A  special telephone
number was given to Rodov,
     which enabled him to call Israeli embassy  in Moscow and to  Israel for
free (according to his own words, and I believe that it was true).

     2.9.  Rodov  and co  "punished"  me  in  different  ways.  They  spread
discreditible rumors against me, they posed intrigues against me at my work,
they threaten me, they
     did so,  that  I  was not invited any more to  play  in restaurants, on
wedding parties, in dancing clubs, and so on, they tried to confront my wife
with me. I am absolutely sure
     that Rodov's actions against  me were correlated with the persecutions,
which I faced from the local authorities. In Minsk I used to visit Mr. Garik
Chajtovich, - my friend
     and  a kind  person.  He  was  a Jewish activist  and  Hebrew  teacher.
Practically  all  the  Israeli  missioners  have  visited  him.  I  met  few
high-ranked Israeli representatives
     through Garik  or in his place several times and spoke to them. I tried
to convince them  that they should stop supporting odious persons like Rodov
and to stop
     suppressing  the  development of  Jewish  cultural life  in  USSR. They
usually  answered  that their priority  is to convince  people  to leave for
Israel, and they do not care
     about anything else. But one time I got an unusual answer.  The man who
gave it to me was a very  important person. I could  admit how Garik respect
and treat him.
     Even Israelis who were with this man obeyed him. He told me that I have
to stop talking about such things. He also  told me that he has a pity to me
because, according
     to him, I would pay a high price for my "nihilism" and freethinking, my
family, my relatives would suffer, and my life will become miserable...

     2.10.  Because with time people were  convinced that Rodov is  a crook,
and were too angry on him, I, brothers Strupinsky, Marat Kurtzer  and others
took the power in our
     own hands,  discharging Rodov and his company.  Only then I  understood
very soon that the problem was not in Rodov. Without him Israelis have found
other ways to
     achieve  their  goals. And  very  soon  my position  became as  weak as
before.  Israelis also took revenge in Minsk, displacing  Iakov Gutman,  the
main figure in
     opposition to their policy in Belarus.
     Now  nothing  might  stop  them from  forcible  (in  the deeper  sense)
transportation of hundred of thousands Jews from Belarus to Israel.

     2.11. From 1988 my brother's health  became more and more bad. He has a
blood  cancer,  but I was sure that his  disease  was caused  because he was
exposed to
     radiation. During many  month doctors Kustanovich (she died recently in
USA  from cancer),  Cherny and Petrusha did not report  Vitaly's  bad  blood
tests. They also
     accused him  in simulating to  "avoid military service" and threaten to
kill him. Since he became sick I fought to get his true diagnose and to  win
an appropriate treatment
     for him. In the end of 1987 we  understood that for saving my brother's
life we  have to  move to  one of the  West  countries. I  tried  to get  an
immigration visa to US, but
     America  was  "closed" very  soon because of  a  treaty,  which  Israel
demanded: about leaving the only one way for Soviet Jews - only to Israel. I
also tried to get a visa
     in the German embassy,  but it was  too late. Then we had  to request a
visa only from Israel. We did all necessary steps to  obtain it, but we  did
not get any visas.
     Hundreds of people  whom I helped to get  visas (I told them that  I do
not recommend  them to go to Israel,  but  they kept asking me with passion,
and I helped them) got
     them,  but not my brother and  me.  Even Genady Shulman,  one from  the
Rodov's  group,  who  was  kind to us  and  arranged visas for thousands  of
people, could not
     obtain visas for  my brother, and me.  I  went to  Moscow,  to  Israeli
embassy, where they knew me  very good  as one  of the activists and where I
always had an access to,
     and spoke to Ambassador Mr. Levin, but without any result.

     In  1988  Israel have  submitted special  visas-invitations for  Jewish
activists for a free trip to  Israel. In spite  of my detestation of Rodov I
phoned him in an attempt to save
     my  brother's  life  (because  he composed  a list of names  for  these
invitations).  "What  did  your  brother did for  the Jewish  movement,  for
Zionism? - he asked. Avoiding
     tensions I did not tell him that my brother did for Rodov  more then he
deserved and that my brother put his business under a risk organizing Jewish
events when the
     local  authorities  did  not approve  them.  I  only  asked  him  about
compassion. "There are more valuable things then human life, - he responded.
Later I had a chance to
     see  what  these things  are.  Nobody from Rodov's group went to Israel
with that free invitation, only Rodov's father went to Israel because he did
small speculation trade
     under the table, and used that occasion as a shield...

     In August,  1989 my brother, and me,  we went to Poland, where  a blood
test, which was made to him, had shown strange processes in his organism. In
September I
     started  a new  Jewish magazine "Vos  Herzach?"  and participated  in a
current  issue of "CONTACT."  My brother Vitaly  gave his cafй (he  was  the
owner) again for the
     Jewish  club meeting. In September also came a telephone threat that my
brother Vitaly would die. In January 1990 another person called and told the
same.

     2.12. When in 1989 first letters began to arrive from those who already
settled  in Israel,  their relatives discovered that Russian speaking people
are persecuted in
     Israel, that Israelis hate us and treat us as second-class people, many
of the Jews in Bobruysk cancelled their tickets and visas. It seemed to be a
total disaster for
     Israeli plan to capture half a  million or more Soviet  Jews.  But they
have  found a solution  very soon.  Somebody began to  spread  rumors  about
possible pogroms.
     Every day  brought  a "reliable" information that Jews  are in  danger.
Jewish cemeteries were vandalized everywhere. By that time I was a member of
a group that
     investigated this wave  of vandalism. Most active members in that group
were  Baltic  Jews.  A small  Baptist  team  and  NTS  representatives  also
participated. We
     discovered that  vandalism started  in  west regions  of USSR and moved
chronologically  from the  Northwest to Southeast. Pogroms in Muslim  region
were not known. It
     was absolutely clear that a team  of  "vandals"  traveled by train from
town to town, from city to city, starting from Riga. They had a steady pace,
so, Soviet authorities (if
     they would  want to  stop hooligans)  could figure out  very easy where
should  be  their  next stop  and next  pogrom  -  and catch them.  But  the
authorities did not want to stop
     them. Israelis also used  different methods  to  calm  down information
about  vandalism.  I personally (as well as  others) took the description of
our conclusions about
     vandalism to Israeli  embassy, but they  became  furious and refused to
send this  information  to Israeli press. I have  submitted  the description
about vandalism against
     Jewish  cemeteries (without  our  conclusion) to  Washington  Post  and
Chicago Tribune correspondents in Moscow,  as  well as to Israeli newspapers
(enclosing photos
     of  vandalized graves), but  no  newspaper  outside USSR published this
information.  I was  sure  that  Israelis  used their  influence  to prevent
newspapers from that
     publication. I  was even more convinced about Israeli involvement  when
such a  pogrom  happened in my  native  town.  Graves  that  related to  non
pro-Israeli activists'
     were  mainly  targeted,  when  pro-Israeli families'  graves  were  not
touched. My father's grave was vandalized, the monument was broken.

     2.13. I  informed  US  president's  special representative, Mr. Nikolai
Petro, that Israelis are using illegal methods to force people to leave USSR
for Israel. I also
     contacted  several US diplomats including Mrs. Daria Arturovna  Fein. I
met Daria  Arturovna  at hotel "Ukraine" in Moscow. She took  a  look at the
photos and asked if
     they are not a fake. I told  her that I could give her an original film
from which the photos were made. And I gave  the film to her.  She  held the
film several minutes in her
     hands. I saw that she is trembling. After some hesitation  she gave the
film  and  the  photos  back  to me, refusing to  admit  them  and giving no
explanations. I told to
     prominent  personalities  in Frankfurt,  in  Warsaw and in Paris  about
these  acts  of  vandalism,  but they  could  not  organize  even  a  single
publication.

     2.14. In  January-February 1990 I came to Paris hoping to obtain a visa
for my brother. I was  warmly welcomed by all Jewish  organizations in Paris
and Lion, which I
     visited,  and also by Russian immigrants' organizations, including NTS.
They gave me money, shelters, they bought