WORLD IN BRIEF : POLAND : Katyn Executioner Believed to Be Alive

Poland says a member of the Soviet secret police who signed the order for the World War II massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn forest is still alive and should be interrogated, the PAP news agency reported in Warsaw. It is alleged that Pyotr Karpovich Soprunenko, then a major in the secret police, signed the list of 4,200 officers ordered to be executed at Katyn in the spring of 1940. Justice Minister Aleksander Bentkowski said Soprunenko is living in Moscow. He asked a Soviet prosecutor to interrogate him in the presence of a Polish investigator.