While serving as a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, Raoul
Wallenberg is credited with saving as many as 100,000 Hungarian
Jews from annihilation by the Nazis. As a neutral country
functioning in Hungary, Sweden's Budapest office was in an
position essential to the humanitarian rescue effort, and
Wallenberg was able to advance the aims, albeit indirectly, of
U.S. efforts against Germany. The West has recognized
Wallenberg's heroic efforts, yet Korey's case chronicles the
deception on the part of Soviet-Russia to address Wallenberg's
mysterious kidnapping on January 19, 1945, by Moscow's secret
police. Why was a Swedish diplomat with strong political ties
with the U.S. (then Moscow's ally) apprehended? Even with
glasnost and the break-up of the Soviet Union, why has Moscow's
diplomatic corps repeatedly deceived, covered-up, and cast a
shroud of suspicion over Wallenberg's disappearance? Korey
argues that for the international community to recognize the
legitimacy of a successor state, the successor state must make