The World Jewish Congress accused Attorney General Edwin Meese of protecting Nazi war criminals and impeding justice for Karl Linnas, who came within hours of receiving political asylum in Panama. He would thus have escaped deportation to the USSR. But a week later he was deported. He would die in prison in July.
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