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This Central Intelligence Agency release contains an FBI transmittal letter signed by J. Edgar Hoover, forwarded to the CIA's Deputy Director for Plans, along with a November 1969 FBI memorandum about Martin Bormann. An informant of unknown reliability claimed Bormann was living in a compound near Asuncion, Paraguay, that had underground laboratories, and gave his opinion that it could be a base for flying saucers. A second source described the informant as a known liar with a criminal record.
n Repl Plas Ree.oNvme 0,16 . Martin3ormann -O Octobe 17d99 YT1 wt hmisfi 1~~~~~^.s. cint contachas: been had todtriete eiaiiyo . . . . .. . . . II adI~ ) 1t1S " ,l't)'tii i'.Jl e .1. th inomto fuNishedr, aded tht e a- eYont 1 n ReplyPlease Refer to November 20, 1959 'File N. . . belv tMartin ormann . On October'17,, 1969, NY T-1, with whom insuffi- j cient'contact has been had to determine the reliability of ! the information furnished, advised that he has i'ea"§on to 1 ~ believe that M~artin 3ormann, "former high Nazi official, who was responsible for numerous atrocities committed in concentration camps during World War II", is living in a compound about one hundred twenty miles from Asuncion, Para- quay. i4Y T-1 characterizdd this compound as an area which houses several thousand German expatriates. He said that he is conducting a one man crusade' to force Bormann to stard trial for his many crimes. NY T-1, while visiting this compound in January, 1969, under the guise of a merchant, confronted a person whom he believed or imagined to be Martin Bormann, but had no definite basis for this assumotion. fie ar~ded *hat Bormann is residing at the compound under the name, Juan Ges ll. - NY T-1 added that it is his understanding, based on information from a person wcom he did not wish to identi- fy, that in addition to Bormann there are two other former German officials residing at the compound, namely, Doctor Joseph Mengele and Hans Mueller, both of whom, according to the source, committed atrocities at con-centra'tion camps. dur- ing Morld War II. - -;!Y T-l was reluctant-to furnish explicit details leading to the discovery of Bormann's whereabouts other than This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It is the pro- perty of tne F3I and. is loa.ncd to your agcncy; it *.andits con- tents are not to ne distributed outside your agency. . 4.. ...,*::-
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.