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December 27, 2010

Kissinger in 1973: Gassing of Soviet Jewry "Not a U.S. Concern" 
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has apologized following the
release of White House tapes showing he once said the U.S. wouldn't be
concerned if the Soviet Union sent its Jewish population to gas
chambers. On the 1973 tape, Kissinger is heard telling then-President
Richard Nixon that the U.S. isn't interested in helping Soviet Jewry
emigrate to the United States. Kissinger adds, "And if they put Jews
into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern.
Maybe a humanitarian concern." Kissinger now says his remarks were taken
out of context.



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