The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry said today there was evidence of a deliberate effort by KGB secret police to issue misleading information on prosecution of Soviet Jewish activists to upset efforts by other activists to help Jews under arrest.
The SSSJ cited reports that the trial of Aleksandr Feldman, scheduled to be held in Kiev yesterday, had been indefinitely postponed but he remains under arrest. The SSSJ said that a number of Russian Jews came to Kiev to protest the trial and learned of its postponement. Last week, in a similar development, Petya Pinchasov of Derbent, on the Caspian Sea, was to have been tried Nov. 9. But, without any prior information his trial was moved up to Nov. 6. He was sentenced to a five-year term in a forced labor camp.
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