A traveler returning from the Soviet Union told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that there was still no news of the five persons arrested in connection with last summer’s alleged hijacking attempt in Leningrad and not in the dock at the December Leningrad trial. The five are Lev Leibovich Korenblit, Lassal Kaminsky, Gregory Ilya Butman, Lev Naumovich Yagman and Vladimir Osherovich Mogilever. The traveler said that on Jan. 8 several friends of the five approached the deputy prosecutor in Leningrad, the KGB (secret police), the Interior Ministry and the Leningrad party secretary-none of whom could or would give any information about the prisoners. The KGB officials, according to the traveler, said the matter was not their business. The wives of the prisoners then approached the public prosecutor on Jan. 22, and were told by him that he would give them a reply within three weeks. As of yesterday, six weeks later, he had not replied, according to the traveler.
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