Wiesenthal Denies Press Reports He Will Close Down Nazi Hunting Center

Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal says that American press reports from Vienna that he is considering closing down the Austrian section of his Documentation Center are “only part of the truth.” In a recent letter to Harry Evans, a New York sympathizer. Mr. Wiesenthal said he had “thought about terminating” his Austrian section, which has been attacked in some quarters of the Kreisky government for being a “secret-agent” operation. But, he said, “we changed our minds because of the many pleas to continue from our friends.” He added, without elaboration: “We try the last chance which is possible in this matter.”