Mr. Speaker. as a member of the 97th Congressional Class for Soviet Jewry. it is an honor and privilege to call to the attention of my colleagues the plight of Lev Gendin who has been repeatedly denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union to join his wife Aviva in Israel. Lev Gendin has been a refusenik since 1971. His most recent exit visa refusal occured in February 1977 on the grounds of "secrecy." an alltoocommon pretext used by Soviet emigration officials. regardless of whether it can be fairly justified by the facts of the applicants case. Upon applying to emigrate. Lev was dismissed from his job and has been arrested and jailed several times. He is under constant harassment by Soviet authorities and has been interrogated by the KGB numerous times.
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