Editing Karl Linnas (section)

==Deportation from the United States==
Linnas worked as a land surveyor, living quietly in Greenlawn, New York, until 1979, when U.S. immigration officials charged him with making false statements to gain entry to the United States.

In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, New York, stripped then-62-year-old Linnas of his U.S. citizenship for having lied to immigration officials 30 years earlier about his Nazi past. Linnas' crimes, the judge said, "were such as to offend the decency of any civilized society." A 1986 federal appeals court upheld his deportation order, ruling that the evidence against the defendant was "overwhelming and largely uncontroverted."

On April 20<sup>th</sup>, 1987; the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a final appeal. At that point Linnas was flown to the Soviet Union, and almost three months later died in a prison hospital in then-Leningrad while awaiting trial (July 2<sup>nd</sup>, 1987). Linnas became the second naturalized American to be sent to the Soviet Union to face a pending death sentence, after [[Feodor Fedorenko]], whose execution occurred in 1987, the same year of Linnas' deportation.
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