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(26 Sep 2011) SHOTLIST
FILE: Outskirts of Budapest, 1945
1. Various of the Soviet troops advancing on Budapest
Moscow - 16 September 2011
2. Set up shot of Lt. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov, the chief archivist of Russia''''s counter-intelligence service (FSB)
3. Close up of Khristoforov paging through a file with war-time secret police documents
4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Lt. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov, Chief Archivist, FSB:
"As a researcher and historian, I can assume that the date of death does not correspond to the one mentioned in Smoltsov''''s report. But even if it doesn''''t correspond to reality, Wallenberg could have outlived it only by a few days."
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5. Still photograph of Wallenberg
Moscow - 26 September 2011
6. Wide shot monument to Wallenberg in Moscow, unveiled in 2001
7. Close up of face of sculpture
8. Memorial plaque reading in Russian "Raoul Wallenberg 1912 - ? Swedish diplomat who saved more than 100,000 Jews from annihilation during the Second World War."
Moscow - 16 September 2011
9. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Lt. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov, Chief Archivist, FSB:
"What I am 100 percent certain of is that Wallenberg was never in any other prison, either under his own name or an alias - never. He couldn''''t have come out alive. The cause of his death could have in fact been what the Smoltsov report says (heart attack), or, according to the second version, they could have helped him die."
10. Close up of secret police file No. 0757, related to the period between 1945 and 1947
11. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Lt. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov, Chief Archivist, FSB:
"Despite the fact that he was repeatedly interrogated, not a single interrogation record exists. I think everything vanished without trace - destroyed during the period when attempts were made to conceal Wallenberg''''s stay at Lubyanka."
12. Wide shot of the Lubyanka, former KGB headquarters and current home of Russia''''s counter-intelligence service FSB, with a memorial to victims of the GULag in the foreground
13. Tilt up of memorial
STORYLINE
A Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews before vanishing into Soviet captivity, may have been alive after the official 1947 date of his death, according to chief archivist of Russia''''s counterintelligence service, the FSB.
Lt. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov says that 32 year old Raoul Wallenberg may have lived a few days longer than originally thought.
Khristoforov said that there was a discrepancy between the date of Wallenberg''''s death and the date noted in a report by the head of the Lubyanka prison infirmary, where the Swede was held after capture by the Soviets.
The archivist also acknowledged that the Soviet version of Wallenberg''''s death of a heart attack could have been fabricated and that his captors may have "helped him die".
Although he stopped short of discarding the official Soviet version of Wallenberg''''s death, his remarks, coming from a custodian of the country''''s most closely guarded intelligence secrets, represent a crack in the wall of official Russian reticence about Wallenberg.
And while he didn''''t cite any new evidence, the general said that his statements were based on his knowledge of materials related to the fate of numerous other victims of repression.
Wallenberg''''s disappearance is an abiding mystery of World War II.
It also has been an embarrassment for Moscow, which has failed to dislodge a stubborn belief, supported by credible if unsubstantiated evidence, that Wallenberg lived in the Soviet GULag for up to four decades after his alleged death.

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