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MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008
WORLD WAR II
NEWS 9A
Diplomat's role remains a mystery
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Budapest, November 1944: Another German train has loaded its cargo of Jews bound for Auschwitz. A young Swedish diplomat pushes past the SS guard and scrambles onto the roof of a cattle car.
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Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat that assisted Jews during the Holocaust, vanished in 1945.
Ignoring shots fired over his head, he reaches through the open door to outstretched hands, passing out dozens of bogus "passports" that extended Sweden's protection to the bearers. He orders everyone with a document off the train and into his caravan of vehicles. The guards look on, dumbfounded.
Raoul Wallenberg was a minor official of a neutral country, with an unimposing appearance and gentle manner. Recruited and financed by the U.S., he was sent into Hungary to save Jews. He bullied, bluffed and bribed powerful Nazis to prevent the deportation of 20,000 Hungarian Jews to concentration camps, and averted the massacre of 70,000 more people in Budapest's ghetto by
Then, on Jan.17,1945 days after the Soviets moved into Budapest, the 32-year-old Wallenberg and his
threatening to have the Nazi commander hanged as a war criminal.
II was drawing to a close and the Soviets were growing increasingly suspicious of Western intentions in eastern Europe.
Hungarian driver, Vilmos Langfelder, drove off under a Russian security escort, and vanished forever.
Speculation that Wallenberg was engaged in espionage has been rife since the Central Intelligence Agency acknowledged in the 1990s that he had been recruited for his rescue mission by an agent of the Office of Strategic Services, the OSS, which later became the CIA.
About the Pond, little is known.
Because he was a rare flicker of humanity in the man-made hell of the Holocaust, the world has celebrated him ever since.
Researchers have sifted through hundreds of purported sightings of Wallenberg into the 1980s, right down to plotting his movements from cell to cell while in custody. Fresh documents are to become public which might cast light on another puzzle: Whether Wallenberg was connected, directly or indirectly, to a super-secret wartime U.S. intelligence agency known as "the Pond," operating as World War
Because he was a rare flicker of humanity in the man-made hell of the Holocaust, the world has celebrated him ever since. Streets have been named after him and his face has been on postage stamps. Researchers have wrestled with two enduring mysteries: Why was Wallenberg arrested, and did he really die in Soviet custody in 1947?
is to release a stash of Pond-related papers accidentally discovered in a Virginia barn in 2001. These are the papersofJohn Grombach, who headed
the Pond from its creation in 1942. CIA officials say they should be turned over to the National Archives in College Park, Md.
In February, the Swedish government posted an online database of 1,000 documents and testimonies related to Wallenberg's disappearance. In a few months, independent investigators plan to launch a Web site with their nearly 20-year research into Russian archives and prison records. Russia is building a Museum of Tolerance that will feature once-classified documents on Wallenberg. Last year, the CIA relaxed its guidelines to reveal details of its sources and intelligence-gathering methods in the case.
Despite dozens of books and hundreds of documents on Wallenberg, much remains hidden. As many as 100,000 pages of declassified OSS documents await processing at the National Archives.
>> SOCIAL NETWORKING
Online applications limit security
University of Virginia computer science student Adrienne Felt poses on April 17 in Charlottesville, Va. FaFelt has researched the issue of online privacy as it relates to third-party applications that people routinely download on Web sites such as Facebook.
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CHICAGO — Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking.
The college sophomore doesn't have a MySpace page and, while she's on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can.
"I don't want to have to worry about all the different online scandals and problems," says Brown, an education major at St. Joseph College in Connecticut. She'd like to control her personal information and keep it out of the hands of identity thieves or snooping future employers. "It's just common sense."
It sounds like her info is locked down and airtight. But is it?
Turns out, even the privacy-conscious Sarah Browns of the world freely hand over personal information to perfect strangers. They do so every time they download and install what's known as an "application," one of thousands of mini-programs on a growing number of social networking sites that are designed by third-party developers for anything from games and sports teams to trivia quizzes and virtual gifts.
Brown, for instance, has installed applications on her Facebook page for Boston Bruins fans and another that allows her to post "bumper stickers" on her own page and those of her friends. It's a core way to communicate on social networking sites, which allow friends to create pages about themselves and post photos and details about their lives and interests.
People often think Facebook profiles and sometimes MySpace pages, if they're set as private, are only available to friends or specific groups, such as a university, workplace or even a city.
But that's not true if they use applications. On Facebook, for instance, applications can only be downloaded if a user checks a box allowing its developers to "know who I am and access my information," which means everything on a profile, except contact info. Given
little thought, agreeing to the terms has become a matter of routine for the nearly 70 million Facebook users worldwide who use applications to spruce up their pages and to flirt, play and bond with friends online.
News Corp's MySpace, which has about 117 million unique visitors each month, recently added an applications platform, giving developers access to the profiles of anyone who downloads them. Unlike Facebook, though, MySpace users don't have to include their names on their profiles.
So what do these third parties do with the information? Sometimes, they use it to connect users with similar interests. Sometimes, they use it to target ads, based on demographics such as gender and age.
But experts who track online security issues think there's too
Facebook and MySpace say they hold application developers to strict standards — and boot them if they don't comply. They also point out that some information, such as e-mail addresses and phone numbers, aren't made available.
much personal information flying around out there, with few guarantees that it's safe. They also think social networkers have little understanding of where their information goes and how it's used — and as a result, have a false sense of security.
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"I suspect that there's a whole lot of clicking without a lot of thinking," says Mary Madden, a senior research specialist at the Pew Internet & American Life Project who studies privacy issues. "So much of this sharing happens in a way that users don't see the consequences. It's kind of a big, black hole."
Part of the risk stems from Facebook applications being created by tech-related companies or by any individuals with know-how. Some would argue that it's much like trusting an online vendor with your credit card information.
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Adrienne Felt, a computer science major at the University of Virginia and Facebook user, decided to research the site's applications. "People seem to have this idea that, when you put something on the Internet, there should be some privacy model out there — that there's somebody out there that's enforcing good manners. But that's not true," Felt says.
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