The charge that Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, had instituted in the Ukraine, under Stalin, some of the “most extreme” anti-Semitic measures, was voiced here yesterday by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a television interview.
The anti-Jewish measures instituted at khrushchev’s behest were “far stronger in many respects than those of Hitler’s, ” Mr. Hoover stated. He warned against the present Soviet rulers and emphasized that Khrushchev had served under Stalin for 26 years. This was the first televised news interview given by the FBI chief since he entered government service some forty years ago.
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