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This is a Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 14 August 1985 and sent to Washington. It forwards news clippings and magazine articles on Josef Mengele, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The attachments include an Argentine magazine report on claims that Mengele lived in La Banda, Santiago del Estero, as Adolfo Gualterio Ascher, along with an interview with the judge investigating those claims. They also include a newspaper article on Mengele's protection in Paraguay and on past efforts to extradite him. The file has no UFO content.
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A 30-YEAR FLIGHT FROM JUSTICE- AND THE HUNT GOES ON Faces of a Nazi on the rum in Germany (c. 1939); in Buenos Aires; in Eldorado, Argentina: in Asunci'an, Paraguay. =az ..4:amr=normmr====3,---nakariar=3===.asrzerzreg=avarmrarzs==7.1psttes=...-...r.znv-n.co Incredible as it seems now, Josef Mengele let members of the Jewish underground Mount Kisco would place him 11 miles from lived a relatively tranquil life just after the into one of Mengele's Argentine retreats. Westwood, N.J., home of a German-run war. For some time he successfully palmed Wherever Mengele has run, his would-be company called KMN Modern Farm Equip- himself off as a harmless physician near his captors have never been far behind. But meat. KMN stands for Krona, Mengele and family home In Gfinzburg on the shores of aided by a team of omnipresent body- Niemeyer. The registered agent for its New the Danube. But since 1949, when he be- guards, he has slipped through their fingers Jersey operation is Dieter Mengele, nephew came fearful of being brought to trial for at least a dozen times. Israeli agents once of Josef. A spokesman for the U.S. branch mass war crimes, Mengele's travels and arrived at Mengele's hotel room in Asun- denies the firm maintains any contact with close escapes could have been lifted from don, Paraguay, only to find that he had the elusive doctor. a James Bond movie; indeed, in a recent skipped town in his pajamas 20 minutes Mengele continues to gain notoriety as film, Gregory Peck portrayed Mengele as earlier. In recent years, the trail has re- an almost mythical incarnation of evil. He the model Nazi-on-the-lam. The following malned maddeningly warm. In 1978, .ac- has been linked to dark deeds as diverse report Includes the freshest information cording to a confidential State Department as the alleged genocide of Paraguay's Ache about Mengele's continuing flight. memorandum, Mengele fled to Brazil. The Indians and the torture (in the ca p acity as Mengele first fled Germany through 'a Nazi escape network. Hidden in a monas- tery in Rome's Via Sicilia, supplied with false papers in Spain, he entered Argentina In 1951. In the 30 years since, undercover oggedly if fruitlessly tracked him through the jungle hinterlands of South, America, in and out of Europe and possi- bly even to the U.Ated States. Their efforts, however, have been repeatedly thwarted since Mengele has lived mostly in the corn- - pany of other former Nazis in Latin Amer- ica who are joined in a Mutual protection society they call "Spider," which is financed-by drug smuggling and extortion. Argentina and Paraguay proved safe ha- vens for Mengele until 1960, when he just managed to elude a stina staged in Buenos Aires by agents of Mossad, Israel's intelli- gence arm. (On that foray they captured the Gestapo's Adolf Eichrnann instead.) For the next decade, Mengele shuttled between Paraguayan cities, from which he made fre- quent journeys to Italy, Spain, Greece and Egypt, meeting with his wife in Rome and Milan. As he moved around the globe, Men- gele left a bloody trail. In 1961 a pursuer named Nora Eldoc, act- ing on her own, reportedly made contact with Mengele at a resort in Paraguay, and a series of meetings followed. A beautiful, 48-year-old Jew, Eldoc had been sterilized by Mengele two decades earlier at Ausch- witz. Before she could spring her trap on him, however, Mengele discovered her true identity and fled. liar body turned up months later in Brazil. In 1965 ex-Nazi Her- bert Ciikurs' battered body was found in a car trunk in Uruguay after he bargained to same year a British TV crew filmed a close associate of Mengele's in Paraguay who boasted, "I see him every four weeks. We have a friendly card game. Everybody knows Mengele is here." Last summer op- gain, this time in La Paz, Bolivia. Early this year he was spotted in Uruguay. The most startling account of Mengele's travels has come from leading members of Paraguay's opposition party, who say that he came to, the United States two years ago and lived for a while in a private home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. (About the same time, ac- cording to the Justice Department, a res- ervation on a Miami-bound jet from Latin America was made in Mengele's name.) adviser) of prisoners at Montevideo's Free- dom Prison. "He is no myth," says Ausch- witz survivor Alex Dekel, no* finishing a book on Mengele, "no bad dream from an- other time. He is alive and he is free." ne'nunt goes on. In recent years JeWz ish-American businessmen who want him captured have spent $1 million paying off German expatriate friends of Mengele's in attempts to flush him from his hideaways. Armed with fresh evidence of past atroc- ities, West Germany issued a new arrest warrant for the doctor last January, and to- day he has a $100,000 bounty on his head. "Mengele lives like a hunted animal," says Isser Harel, ex-chief of Israel's Mossad. "This itself is some kind of revenge." 4 n this rare photograph at the Birkenau railroa d ramp. Mcngete handpicks victimsfor the. gas chambers. 52
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