Editing Raoul Wallenberg (section)

=== Death ===
On 6 February 1957, the Soviet government released a document dated 17 July 1947 that stated: "I report that the prisoner Wallenberg who is well-known to you, died suddenly in his cell this night, probably as a result of a heart attack or [[heart failure]]. Pursuant to the instructions given by you that I personally have Wallenberg under my care, I request approval to make an [[autopsy]] with a view to establishing cause of death.... I have personally notified the minister and it has been ordered that the body be [[cremation|cremated]] without autopsy."<ref name=chron3 /> The document was signed by Smoltsov, then the head of the Lubyanka prison infirmary, and addressed to [[Viktor Abakumov]], the Soviet minister of state security.<ref name=ROB /><ref name=NYT02151957>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1957/02/15/archives/germans-death-listed-soviet-notifies-the-red-cross-diplomat-died-in.html |title=German's Death Listed; Soviet Notifies the Red Cross Diplomat Died in Prison |newspaper= The New York Times |date=15 February 1957 | page= 9| access-date= 11 August 2020| url-access= subscription}}</ref> In 1989, Wallenberg's personal belongings were returned to his family, including his passport and cigarette case. Soviet officials said they found the materials when they were upgrading the shelves in a store room.<ref>{{cite news |title=Soviets Give Kin Wallenberg Papers |newspaper= The New York Times |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/17/world/soviets-give-kin-wallenberg-papers.html| first= Esther B. | last= Fein |date=17 October 1989| access-date= 11 August 2020}}</ref><ref name=OSA>{{cite web|url= http://www.osa.ceu.hu/guide/rip/1/a.html|title= Raoul Wallenberg, Life and Work|access-date= 12 February 2007|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070114135351/http://www.osa.ceu.hu/guide/rip/1/a.html|archive-date= 14 January 2007|df= dmy-all}}</ref>

In 1991, [[Vyacheslav Nikonov]] was charged by the Russian government with investigating Wallenberg's fate. He concluded that Wallenberg died in 1947, executed while a prisoner in Lubyanka.<ref name="Jonathan Brent 2008">{{cite book |first=Jonathan |last=Brent |title=Inside the Stalin Archives |publisher=Atlas and Co |year=2008}}</ref> He may have been a victim of the C-2 poison ([[carbylamine-choline-chloride]]) tested at the [[poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services]].<ref>
{{Cite book
| last        = Fedorov | first = L.A.
| date        = 2005
| title       = Советское биологическое оружие: история, экология, политика
| trans-title = The Soviet biological weapons: history, ecology, politics
| url         = http://www.seu.ru/cci/lib/books/bioweapon/4/02.htm
| language    = ru
| location    = Moscow}}</ref>

In Moscow in 2000, [[Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev]] announced that Wallenberg had been executed in 1947 in Lubyanka prison. He claimed that [[Vladimir Kryuchkov]], the former Soviet [[secret police]] chief, told him about the shooting in a private conversation. The statement did not explain why Wallenberg was killed or why the government had lied about it.<ref name=WP12232000>{{cite news |last=LaFraniere |first=Sharon |title=Moscow Admits Wallenberg Died in Prison in 1947 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=23 December 2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,997659,00.html |title=Cause of Death Conceded |newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=7 August 2000 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090114075507/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C997659%2C00.html |archive-date=14 January 2009 }}</ref> General [[Pavel Sudoplatov]] claimed that Wallenberg died after being poisoned by [[Grigory Mairanovsky]], an [[NKVD]] chemist and torturer.<ref>{{cite book |first=Vadim J. |last=Birstein |title=The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science |page=138 |publisher=Westview Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8133-4280-1}}</ref> In 2000, Russian prosecutor [[Vladimir Ustinov]] signed a verdict posthumously rehabilitating Wallenberg and his driver, Langfelder, as "victims of [[political repression]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/12/22/russia.wallenberg/index.html |title=Russia: Wallenberg wrongfully jailed |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=22 December 2000 |access-date=14 February 2007 |archive-date=19 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219180113/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/12/22/russia.wallenberg/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Files pertinent to Wallenberg were turned over to the chief [[rabbi]] of Russia by the Russian government in September 2007.<ref name="files">{{cite web |url= http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104393.html |archive-url= https://archive.today/20070621171021/http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104393.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 21 June 2007 |title= Moscow releases Wallenberg files |access-date= 29 July 2007 |year= 2007 |publisher= Jewish Telegraphic Agency |website= JTA.org}}</ref> The items were slated to be housed at the [[Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center]] in Moscow,<ref name="files" /> which opened in 2012.<ref name="NYTopening">{{cite news |last= Barry |first= Ellen |title= In Big New Museum, Russia Has a Message for Jews: We Like You |newspaper= The New York Times |date= 9 November 2012 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/world/europe/russias-new-museum-offers-friendly-message-to-jews.html?_r=0 |access-date= 29 January 2013}}</ref>

In August 2016, new information about Wallenberg's death came to light when the diary of [[KGB]] head [[Ivan Serov]] surfaced after Serov's granddaughter found the diary hidden in a wall of her house. "I have no doubts that Wallenberg was liquidated in 1947," Serov wrote.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/2016/08/07/news-opinion/world/ex-kgb-heads-diaries-shed-more-light-on-death-of-raoul-wallenberg| title= Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish Holocaust hero, executed in Soviet prison, diaries reveal|date=7 August 2016|website= JTA.org| publisher= Jewish Telegraphic Agency |access-date=8 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/world/europe/from-a-dacha-wall-a-clue-to-raoul-wallenbergs-cold-war-fate.html|title=From a Dacha Wall, a Clue to Raoul Wallenberg's Cold War Fate|last=Macfarquhar|first=Neil|date=6 August 2016 |newspaper= The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=8 August 2016}}</ref>