Austria: Muddying the Cloudy Waters

Muddying the Cloudy Waters

Kurt Waldheim's past just will not go away. The Washington Post reported that % the Austrian President had admitted participating as a supply officer in the 1942 German army operation in the Kozara area of Yugoslavia that left thousands of partisans dead. The Post quoted Gerold Christian, a Waldheim spokesman, as saying that an earlier statement in which the Austrian leader denied he was in the province "was incorrect." In a separate article, the newspaper reported that in 1947 and 1948 Yugoslav and Soviet operatives had tried to blackmail Waldheim into becoming a Communist agent by threatening to accuse him of...

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