Linnas Deported to the Soviet Union

On April 20, 1987, Karl Linnas, accused Nazi war criminal, was deported to the Soviet Union when the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to deny his request for a delay, thereby ending his five-year fight to remain in the U.S.  No opinion was issued.  In the Soviet Union Mr. Linnas faces a death sentence for his alleged role in World War II as head of an Estonian concentration camp in which 12,000 people were killed.