July 17, 2001

          Re: Christopher Hitchens

Dear Stuart:

          Thank you for your letter of July 3, 2001. Your statement that "Dr. Kissinger has no intention of repeating his comment about Mr. Hitchens' views on the Holocaust" is acknowledged by Mr. Hitchens.

          Following up on my offer to provide factual details showing the falsity of Dr. Kissinger's statement that Mr. Hitchens denied the occurence of the Holocaust, I enclose copies of a sampling of articles representative of Mr. Hitchens' statements on this subject:

1. Prepared for the Worst, pp. 345-357, summer 1988

2. "Diluting Responsibility for the Final Solution," (In Hitler's Shadow), New York Newsday, August 23, 1989

3. "A German Aristocrat's Resistance to the Nazis," (Letters to Freya), New York Newsday, July 4, 1990

4. "A Monster Inside the Average Man," (Ordinary Men), New York Newsday, March 25, 1992

5. "Nuremberg: Judgement by Law, Not by Revenge," (The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials), New York Newsday, Oct. 7, 1992

6. Los Angeles Times article of May 20, 2001

          Mr. Hitchens is pleased that you will review these materials however, in addition, he specifically requests that Dr. Kissinger also read these materials. (As an aside, I welcome your review of Mr. Hitchens' writings concerning the reality of the Holocaust.)

          At this time, the already published statement of Dr. Kissinger remains uncorrected. I am sure your client recognizes how difficult it is for the truth to catch up to the lie. Mr. Hitchens requires that Dr. Kissinger issue an apology based on his review of Mr. Hitchens' writings on the Holocaust. My client expects that such an apology will be conveyed to him by July 23, 2001.

                              Sincerely,
                              Jonathan W. Lubell

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