An informed Jewish source disclosed today the names of seven of the is Soviet Jews who tried without success yesterday to speak to an official of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee on behalf of Jews who have been held in detention for the past nine months without a trial. According to the source, the group included the wives of Grigory Ilya Butman, Lassal Kaminsky, Lev Naumovich Yagman, Mikhail Korenblit, Vladimir Osherovich Mogilever, and the mother of Hillel Shur, all from Leningrad, and the wife of Semeon Abramovich Levit from Kishinev. The group visited the headquarters of the Communist Party Central Committee and the Supreme Soviet in Moscow.
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