As of 02Jan2000, Letter 24 of 18Jan98 and Letter 25 of 21Jun99 have not been returned. Sending the letters has utility. In spite of the absence of any substantive reply from Mr. Wiesenthal, my letters are useful in constituting a public record that the questions have been asked and that Mr. Wiesenthal has been given an opportunity to answer them. Thus, even in the absence of any substantive reply from Mr. Wiesenthal, perhaps these letters provide mounting evidence that he lacks credibility. Perhaps also the letters will soon lay the foundation for the widespread acknowledgment that Simon Wiesenthal has been playing the role of the grand calumniator of Ukraine in the same way that Jerzy Kosinski had earlier played the role of the grand calumniator of Poland.
Significance increases over time.
As it turns out, some of the more substantive issues that I deal with appear only in the more recent letters. The reason for this mounting order of significance over time is that in 1994, the more substantive issues had been discussed in a critique that I wrote concerning the 60 Minutes broadcast, and that I had mailed to people at CBS and others including Simon Wiesenthal, and so in my early letters, I did not repeat the points that had been made in the critique. The more recent letters, however, have begun to concern themselves with some of those maximally-substantive topics from the critique. Cross-referencing of letters. All of the letters concern themselves with Mr. Wiesenthal's credibility.