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Katyn forest massacre documents kept under wraps by US: report

The Russians' Katyn forest massacre of Polish officials was covered up at the highest levels of US government, documents released Monday show.

Polish honour guards stand on April 9, 2011 at the monument of Polish officers murdered by Soviet secret security services in Katyn in 1940, in Katyn, on April 9, 2011.

Natalia Kolesnikova

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