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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.

  • p. 22 …through the Simon Wiesent hal Center in Los Angeles. Other rewards have been put up by…
  • p. 43 …Wiesenthal in Los Angeles said yesterday she was unfamiliar with the L,acm- bourg case. In…
  • p. 79 …Belnap . .Los Mucks Tinier F‘ BUENOS AIRES —Josef Mengele, - a notorious Nazi death camp doclor and…
amendment. pet.oni.,
floor that would stop use MX pro.
gramnt missiles in 4 ()existing silos.
Sen. Nunn and Senate Majority
Leader Robert Dale, R-Ran., said
they expected no vote until Wednes-
day while the negotiations took
place.
The Nunn amendment would not
bar further deployment (a way for
basing the MX could be found other
than placing them in vulnerable
silos that can he precision targeted
by Mc Soviet Union.
President Reagan, however. has
not shown an interest in a new bas-
ing mode. while yesterday his
Investigators
get new lead
on location
of Mengele
Ely John McCaslin •
Vest German and Luxembourg
investigators yesterday paid a sur-
prise visit to the Luxembourg office
of a Texas businesswoman and con-
fiscated a photograph taken of her
alongside a man officials believe
could be Nazi war criminal Or Josef
Mengele,The Washington Times has
learned.
In a telephone interview yester-
day from Luxembourg, the Texas
resident, who asked that she remain
unidentified. said she was "upset
and surprised" by the sudden and
unannounced visit, which she thinks
could have beets set up through infor-
mation supplied to authorities by
Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
The woman, who reportedly owns
a water purification business that
takes her around the world, told The
Washington Times msterday that
the entire episode began after she
glanced through a recent issue of
Time Magazine and sawn published
photograph of Men gcle. She thought
he resembled a person she visited
with last year while on a business
trip to South America.
"I realized the man in the piaure
appeared to be the same person I'd.
been with" in South America, she
said, unwilling to reveal in what
country the man resided. 'I notified
toy attorney and one other party,"
shc said One of them, she believes,
then made contact with Mr. Wiesen.
thal
The S. tlion liscut !UFO
defense IL, ion bill before the
Senate contains 52 billion for a third
installment of 21 missiles to be
deployed. The administration wants
to build 213 missiles, installing 100
in the silos
Both Sen. Nunn and Barry Gold-
water. 11-Ant., chairman of the Sen-
ate Armed Services Committee.
chided the White !louse for ire late
interest and pointed out that Sen.
Nunna proposal has been in the
works since March, when the Senate
voted SSA to kccp the program
I .0
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When oonfroti n1 by the West
German and Luxembourg investiga-
tors, she sa id. 'I had no choice but to
tell them tvhere I had met this man,"
The man who looked like Mengcle
had tried "on server-al occasions" to
persuade her to transport -several
products" he was trying to sell to
Saudi Arabia and other countries,
she said. She refused to identify the
products.
The German death-camp doctor
would be 74 if still alive today.
Shealso would not give any details
surrounding Mr. Wiesenthaks possi-
ble involvement in the case, other
than the statement that "he knmvs'
about her dealings with the man
thought to be Mengele.
A close friend of the woman,
speaking yesterday from his
Chicago-area home, said the wont -
an's business associates in Luzern-
bourg who vimessed Mt arrival of
the authorities `thought she had
been kidnapped."
"She disappeared for awhile," thc
friend said.
The friend described the busi-
nesswaman as a very straight. hon..
est person"
A spokcsmar. for Mr. Wiesenthal
in Los Angeles said yesterday she
was unfamiliar with the L,acm-
bourg case.
In an interview with the New York
Times Last week from his Vienna
office, Mr. Wiesenthal claimed that
Mengele .was sighted in Paraguay, in
the serdernent of Cann. Miranda,
outside Holleman, as late as Last July
He based his speculation on
accounts supplied by three unidenti-
tied people who do not know one
another end who live in different
countries.
Mr Wiesenthal informed West
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl or
the three separate accounts, to pre-
pare the chancellor for his meeting
in July with Gcn. Alfredo Stroess-
net-, the Paraguayan leader.
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