That the House of Representatives—
urges Russian authorities to grant access to archival collections, including the Central Archive of the Russian Security Service (TsA FSB), the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense (TsA MO), the Central Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (TsA SVR), the Foreign Police Archive of the Russian Federation (AVP RF), the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation (APRF), the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI), the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI), the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), and the Archive of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (TsA MVD), and declassify and make publicly available all documents related to Raoul Wallenberg;
urges the Russian authorities to work with Raoul Wallenberg’s family, the Swedish government, as well as Russian and international scholars, researchers, and archivists in order to resolve the outstanding questions surrounding the circumstances of Wallenberg’s arrest and death, including—
how and why were Raoul Wallenberg and his driver, Vilmos Langfelder, detained by Soviet military counterintelligence units and moved from Budapest to Moscow in January 1945;
what happened to Raoul Wallenberg after his last confirmed presence in Lubyanka Prison in March 1947;
where are the unredacted copies of all records of interrogations of prisoners connected with the Raoul Wallenberg case and why have they not been made available to family members and researchers;
who were all of the prisoners interrogated on July 22 and 23, 1947, in both Lubyanka and Lefortovo Prisons, where are the unredacted records and transcripts of such interrogations, and why have they not been made available to family members and researchers, including—
what is the identity of “Prisoner No. 7”, and why have the family and researchers been denied access to review the prisoner’s entry in the interrogation register of Lubyanka Prison;
why did neither “Prisoner No. 7” nor Vilmos Langfelder sign the interrogation book as was customary, on that day and what is the meaning of the word “Proshel” in lieu of their signatures;
why have references to Raoul Wallenberg and Vilmos Langfelder been blotted out in various prison journals and when did this censorship occur; and
who are prisoners 14 and 16–20, sentenced from June 1947 through May 1948, and why have they never been identified;
granting Raoul Wallenberg’s family and researchers access to file PF–9653, which has been identified by FSB archivists as containing documentation on foreign diplomats, including Hungarian Prime Minister István Bethlen and Raoul Wallenberg’s longtime cellmate, the German diplomat Willy Rödel, who were imprisoned from 1945 through 1947;
granting family members and researchers access to unredacted copies of the list of prisoners sentenced by the MGB Special Board from 1947 through 1953;
granting the family and researchers access to the official death registers for Lubyanka and Lefortovo Prisons from 1947 through 1953;
what is the sequence of events on July 17, 1947, when, according to Soviet officials, Raoul Wallenberg “died of a heart attack”, and if he did die, what happened to his body;
when, and in what Soviet or Russian archival file, was the so-called Smoltsov Report discovered;
why were no handwriting samples from 1947 for Dr. Smoltsov provided by Russian officials to forensic experts and why has no review been granted of Smoltsov’s personnel file in order to determine whether or not he was on extended medical leave and thus unable to oversee Wallenberg’s detention, as claimed;
what has happened to the letter written by Minister of State Security Viktor Abakumov to Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov on July 17, 1947;
will all records of the Politburo meeting in Stalin’s office from August 9, 1947, during which the Wallenberg case was definitely discussed, be declassified and released;
since researchers have not been permitted to examine important Russian intelligence collections that could provide valuable insights into the reasons for Wallenberg’s arrest—
will researchers receive access to Soviet foreign and military intelligence reports from Hungary in 1944 and 1945, as well as additional Soviet intelligence reports from Stockholm, Sweden for the years 1944 through 47 that have so far remained classified; and
will researchers also be permitted to review reports from Soviet Military Field Intelligence operating in Hungary in 1945, which possibly interrogated both Raoul Wallenberg and Vilmos Langfelder;
since Stalin’s personal secretariat, the Special Sector of the Central Committee, was involved in the Wallenberg case, will the information from its records regarding this case be made available;
since, in 1956 a Soviet citizen by the name of Shiryagin in Kharkov wrote to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs claiming to have important information about Raoul Wallenberg, why did the Foreign Ministry request the KGB to silence Shiryagin on the issue, where is the letter, and what are its contents;
where is the documentation regarding the discussions that took place in 1956 between Soviet diplomats Viktor Vladimirov and Pavel Yerzin with Finnish diplomat Åke Frey about Raoul Wallenberg;
since, on February 6, 1957, when the Soviet authorities informed the Swedish government that Raoul Wallenberg had died in July 1947, only limited information was presented, will all the records of the Presidium (Politburo) discussions regarding the preparation of the Gromyko Memorandum be made available;
since, in 1961 Swedish physician Professor Nanna Svartz reported that her Soviet colleague Professor A. L. Myasnikov revealed to her that he had direct knowledge of Wallenberg’s presence in the Soviet Union, will the full documentation of these discussions be made available to Raoul Wallenberg’s family and researchers;
how and where exactly were Wallenberg’s personal effects discovered in 1989, and were they collected and archived in line with the standard Soviet administrative procedures of the time, including—
if Wallenberg indeed died in 1947, why weren’t the bills of foreign currency in his possession at the time of his arrest confiscated then (as was official Soviet administrative protocol for prisoners of war) but instead handed over to some of his family members in 1989 and can proof be provided that the currency given to Wallenberg’s family was the original currency in his possession;
how did the Soviet authorities know the amount of currency in Wallenberg’s possession, was he given a receipt for his currency upon arrival at Lubyanka, and if so, in which file was this receipt kept; and
were Wallenberg’s diplomatic passport and address book archived in his Archival-Investigation file, has that file been preserved as has that of his former cellmate, Rödel, and if so, will Wallenberg's Archival-Investigation File be made available;
since in 1993, a former KGB official, Colonel Andrei Bachurin, indicated that Wallenberg had once asked for medical assistance, requesting an appointment with a dentist, why hasn’t the actual register entry for this request ever been presented by the Central Archive of the FSB despite numerous inquiries;
since in 1993, a former Vladimir Prison employee reported that a prisoner matching Raoul Wallenberg’s description had been held in isolation in Section 2 sometime during the mid-to-late 1950s, while a former prisoner in Vladimir Prison, Zigurds Kruminsh, stated to his American cellmate, Professor Marvin Makinen, that he had met a secret Swedish prisoner during his time at Vladimir, are there any foreigners imprisoned in Vladimir Prison during the years 1945 to 1975 whose names have thus far been withheld, and will the names of all Swedish nationals held prisoner in the Soviet Union during this time be released; and
since, on January 12, 2001, a Swedish-Russian Working Group investigating the Wallenberg case for over 10 years produced contradictory reports and failed to reach a common conclusion, what evidence is there to confirm that Wallenberg was most likely executed on July 17, 1947, as the official Russian report from 2001 stated;
urges the President, Secretary of State, and other high level United States Government officials to raise the case of Raoul Wallenberg to their Russian counterparts, and request direct access to the original and unredacted documentation in the Russian archives, including the questions specified in subparagraphs (A) through (U) of paragraph (2);
emphasizes the need of independent verification of any information provided by Russian officials; and
reaffirms Raoul Wallenberg’s “humanitarian spirit, personal courage and nonviolent action in the face of enormous odds”, and commits to the continued pursuit of answers regarding Wallenberg’s fate.