Tscherim soobzokov biography definition

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Tsherim Soobzokov was a Circassian man accused of collaborating with the Nazis during the invasion of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and serving as a Waffen-Steamship officer

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Soobzokov denied these charges and sued Columbia Broadcasting System and the New York Times.

He was notably supported by Pat Buchanan and Congressman Robert Roe. In 2006, declassified documents of the Central Intelligence Agency confirmed that Soobzokov had been a Central Intelligence Agency agent in Jordan and that the agency had misled the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service on Soobzokov"s Nazi past

This was part of a wider post-World World War II Central Intelligence Agency program of collaborating with former Nazis living in hiding.

On 15 August 1985, a pipe bomb set outside his home in Paterson, New Jersey critically injured Soobzokov.

He died of his wounds in the hospital on 9 Septembe