Energy Minister Cesar Cals has strongly repudiated allegation by members of his ministry’s internal security department that Brazil’s Jewish community opposed the nuclear agreement signed between Brazil and West Germany. Cals revealed that he has fired the four officials responsible for a secret report to that effect which become public.
The report accused the CIA, the KGB and the Jewish community of creating obstacles to the implementation of the nuclear pact. In an interview on “A Voz Israelita” radio program, Cals said the government totally rejected the report and that it is unequivocally opposed to anti-Jewish manifestation in any form.
The minister also condemned the attack by un-identified vandals on a nursery sponsored by the Jewish philanthropic organization Ofidas in the Jewish quarter of Bom Retiro in Sao Paulo recently. The premises were completely destroyed and two pet canaries were killed. The nursery caters to about 130 children of poor families, almost all of them non-Jewish.
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