German researcher Susanne Berger and Russian scholar Vadim Birstein, who were members of the Swedish-Russian Working Group that conducted a 10-year investigation into the matter during the 1990s, told AP the publication raises suspicions that Moscow may be withholding information which could help solve the 66-year-old puzzle of Wallenberg's arrest and disappearance.
The Russians maintain Wallenberg was executed July 17, 1947, but the Working Group said in its 2000 report there is strong evidence suggesting he lived many years as a prisoner under a different identify or known only by a number, perhaps as late as the 1980s.
The publication of statements by Willy Roedel, Wallenberg?s cellmate from March 1948 to March 1947, sheds little new light on the Swede?s fate, but their mere existence is important, the researchers told AP.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
