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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.

Martin Bormann --
the fact that he learned from a plastic surgeon in Brazil,
that this surgeon had performed a facial operation on
Bormann.
NY T-1 stated that while at the compound, he learn-
.ed-that-there .were underground laboratories, bat did-.not know
the nature of the work being done in these laboratories, He
said that it is his own personal opinion that this"-could well
be a base for flying saucers.
NY T-2, who has furnished reliable information in
- the past, furnished the following information concerning NY
T-1 in February, 1969:
t In 1957, NY T-1 was arrested in Tel Aviv, Israel,
on the charge of obtaining money by.false pretenses, conspi-
racy to commit a felony and uttering a false document. He
was sentenced to two and one-half years in prison, He was
released on parole on February 14, 1960,
According to NY T-2, NY T-1 is wantd 5n Gcr.ny
for theft of gems, and is a kno:wn liar and has incurred many
civil suits in various European countries. -
S-The files of the Passport Office, Department of
State, Washington, D. C., contain a report from the American
Embassy at Tel Aviv, dated December 20, ].°49, cor :rning NY
T-l. The American Embassy report noted that NY . was pre-
occupied with some unusual theories and that he showed some
mild mental aberrations.
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