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                   United States General Accounting Office
                           Washington, D.C. 20548


                                                      FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                                      Expected at 9:30 a.m., EDT
                                                      Wednesday, July 19, 1978


                                 STATEMENT OF              LM095396

            VICTOR L. LOWE, DIRECTOR, GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION

                                  BEFORE THE

                  SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP,

                            AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

                          HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

                 INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED NAZI WAR CRIMINALS

                   RESIDING IN THE UNITED STATES BY THE

                 IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE,

                           DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     Our testimony today deals with our report dated May 15, 1978, entitled

Widespread Conspiracy to Obstruct Probes of Alleged Nazi War Criminals

Not Supported by Available Evidence--Controversy May Continue. Your letter

dated January 13, 1977, requested this report on whether INS personnel deli-

berately obstructed active prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals or

engaged in a conspiracy to withhold or quash any information in its possession.

     In conducting this review, we obtained information from INS, the FBI,

CIA, U.S. attorneys, and the Departments of Defense and State. At various

times during the past year we employed 6 to 10 staff members on this assign-

ment--a total of about 1,000 direct staff days were expended. We examined

case files, interviewed current and former Government employees in the

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