Nov 5, 2004
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
Look what just came over the wire!
I had been trying to get that FBI report ever since Ernst
was arrested. Finally it was released under the Freedom of Information Act.
This is good news for once!
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/
Zundel not a threat, FBI ruled
By KIRK MAKIN JUSTICE REPORTER GLOBE & MAIL
Friday, Nov 5, 2004
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation closed its file on
Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel in 2001 after deciding he was not a security
threat, documents released under U.S. Freedom of Information laws have
revealed.
"In view of the fact that there is no indication that
the subject is, or ever has been, involved in any acts of violence, acts of
terrorism or any other criminal activity within the United States, recommend
this case be closed administratively," an FBI report concluded on April
9, 2001.
The agency's conclusion is in stark contrast to that of the
Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which believes Mr. Zundel's status
as an inspirational guru to the extreme right renders him a danger to
national security.
Also unlike the FBI, which saw Mr. Zundel as nothing more
than a Holocaust revisionist, CSIS believes him to be a white supremacist.
Mr. Zundel arrived in Canada in 1958, but was never granted
citizenship. He has been in a Toronto jail for 18 months awaiting
deportation to Germany under a rarely used security certificate.
Defence lawyers Peter Lindsay and Chi-Kun Shi received the
FOI material from Mr. Zundel's U.S. defence team two days ago -- the day
after a Federal Court of Canada proceeding involving Mr. Zundel's pending
deportation ended.
Yesterday, they forwarded the documents to the presiding
judge, Mr. Justice Pierre Blais, in the hope he will consider them as
evidence.
Judge Blais is expected to rule in the next few weeks on
whether the issuance of a special security certificate against Mr. Zundel
was "reasonable." Should he rule that it is, the notorious
publisher of Holocaust revisionist material has no right of appeal.
Mr. Zundel's lawyers have repeatedly accused the federal
government of misusing special legislation aimed at terrorists to expel a
man who has no criminal record, yet whose activities have made him an
embarrassing thorn in their side.
Mr. Lindsay expressed frustration in an interview yesterday
that the FOI material arrived too late to become part of the deportation
proceeding. "I would have put this in as evidence and relied on
it," Mr. Lindsay said.
The FBI opened its file on Mr. Zundel when he moved to
Tennessee with his wife. He was picked up and deported to Canada on Feb. 19,
2003, after missing an appointment with a U.S. immigration officer. As soon
as Mr. Zundel was delivered to Canada, he was jailed and the deportation
process began.
The April 9, 2001, report noted the FBI's source did not
believe Mr. Zundel had direct connections to white supremacists.
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