CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Mr Whine,

London, Wednesday, March 18,1998
[11:09PM]

We have corresponded in the past, and the causes of this correspondence are becoming increasingly distasteful. In the course of my legal action against Deborah Lipstadt, whom your Board has been assisting, I have reviewed for the first time a number of documents including a Press Release which you issued on January 14, 1993. This reads:

NAZI PROPAGANDIST IRVING HAS FINE TREBLED

The Nazi propagandist, David Irving, was yesterday fined 30,000 Deutschmarks (£12,000) by a court in Munich, Germany. The sentence was a dismissal of his appeal against an earlier fine of 10,000 Deutschmarks, imposed for denying the Holocaust at a neo-Nazi youth training camp in Munich, in April 1990.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews notes the trebling of Irving' fine as indicative of legal authorities' growing recognition that denial of the Holocaust is a moral obscenity, designed to further the evils of Nazism and racial hatred.
In Germany and Austria, Irving is a hero to ageing Nazis and mobs of sieg-heiling youths. In North America, he is feted by Ku Klux Klan leaders, and other notorious white supremacists. He was recently barred from Canada, and refused re-entry to the USA, where he planned to address Far Right extremists on the Holocaust. His proposed visits in early 1993 to South Mrica and Australia have rightly outraged civil rights campaigners and the Jewish communities in those countries.

I am enjoined from using a document obtained under RSC 0.24 in any other litigation until it is in the public domain. This document is however not only grossly offensive, but it is untrue, defamatory, and consequently libellous in several of its statements, which were unprovoked by any statement or action on my own part. Should it become necessary to commence proceedings for defamation against your Board in future I shall produce this and all other such publications as evidence of a reckless ongoing campaign of malicious defamation, which I shall use to justify a claim for punitive damages against your Board.

Yours sincerely,

David Irving
FOCAL POINT PUBLICATIONS

BOARD OF DEPUTIES OF BRITISH JEWS ATTN.: MICHAEL WHINE, DIRECTOR, RESEARCH UNIT COMMONWEALTH HOUSE 1 - 19 NEW OXFORD STREET LONDON WC1A 1NF

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