The head of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service pledged yesterday that he would increase the number of Department of Justice investigators seeking the 33 Nazis still living in America.
Retired Gen. Leonard Chapman had testified about the four to twelve million illegal aliens in the United States when he was asked by Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D.Pa.) about the Nazi leaders who fled from Germany as World War II was ending. Eilberg, Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D.NY) and others in Congress have been urging a thorough investigation of the Nazis believed to be in the-United States. Eilberg is chairman of the subcommittee on immigration of the House Judiciary Committee.
Chapman replied that of 89 cases that the INS had begun, 33 remain on the active list and “we have it at the highest priority.” When Eilberg noted that more than a year has passed since more active investigation had been urged in Congress, Chapman promised he would put more investigators to work on the cases. He said that the list had been reduced to 33 because of deaths and lack of sufficient evidence in the other 56 cases.
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