REPORT: SOVIETS ORDERED ARREST OF WALLENBERG

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, January 25, 1993                   TAG: 9301250047
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN                                LENGTH: Short
REPORT: SOVIETS ORDERED ARREST OF WALLENBERG
A Soviet official who later became premier issued the order to arrest Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary during World War II, a newspaper said Sunday.
The order to arrest Wallenberg, credited with saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps, was issued to the head of a Soviet army unit in Hungary in a telegram dated Jan. 17, 1945, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet said.
The cable was signed by Nikolai Bulganin, then deputy defense minister and later premier in the 1950s, said the newspaper, quoting documents found in previously secret military archives in Russia.
"This shows that the decision to arrest him was made at a high political level. It was not accidental but a very considered action," Lars-Ake Nilsson, under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, told Svenska Dagbladet.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB