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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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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 C 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. l'Cat aZr NAZI WAR CRIMES DISCLOSURE ACT 2000
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 81 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.