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Tscherim Soobzokov
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Tscherim Soobzokov (Щэбзыхъуэ Чэрим; Черим Сообцоков) (24 August 1924 – 9 September 1985) was a Circassian spy, politician, soldier, and an anti-Soviet pro-independence activist. He rose to prominence in the New Jersey Democratic Party and the Circassian community in Paterson, New Jersey. During the Cold War, Soobzokov served the CIA as an anti-Soviet operative.
He was accused of collaborating with Nazi Germany during the invasion of the Soviet Union's North Caucasus before coming to the United States, but denied these allegations and sued CBS and The New York Times, and won. Soobzokov was murdered by a pipe bomb at his house, allegedly by the Jewish Defense League. He was publicly supported by Pat Buchanan and Congressman Robert Roe.
According to the far-right organization Jewish Defense League, during World War II in August 1942 he recruited Circassians in 1943-1944 to the Wehrmacht, and in early 1945, he was promoted to lieutenant of the SS. Richard Breitman also claimed that Soobzokov had ties to the SS. Witnesses said he actively participated in the rounding-up and mass executions of Jews and Communists. Soobzokov was admitted into the United States in 1955.
In 1969, a man named Mahamet Perchich wrote letters to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, claiming Soobzokov had told a Palestinian refugee camp chief that he'd killed so many Jews during the war that if they were still alive, the blood of all Palestinians would not be enough for them to drink.
In 2006, declassified documents of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) confirmed that Soobzokov had been a CIA agent in Jordan. This was part of a wider post-World War II CIA program. Soobzokov had confidentially admitted to the CIA that he had indeed participated in an execution unit and hunted for Jews and Communists.
In 1977 book called ′′Wanted: The Search for Nazis in America′′ by Howard Blum, accused Soobzokov of participating in the mass murder of Jews and Communists in the Caucasus region. Federal officials investigated this allegation.
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