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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.
Doubts on Mengele's Time in Paraguay To the Editor: On ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley" on Feb. 17, Senator .Adfonse Qt. D'Amato and others stated they had information that the Nazi torturer Dr. Josef Mengele en- tered Paraguay in 1959, that he ac- quired citizenship soon afterward and moved freely_about. It was further as- serted that Paraguayans are still afraid to talk about Mengele because of the country's dictatorship, On Dec. 1, 1959, I took up duties at the United States Embassy in Para- guay as a political officer, and for four years and two months, through changes in ambassadors and charges d'affaires, I held that position, often for months at a time as acting chief of the embassy's political section. Throughout those years, there were constant rumors that Martin Bor- • mann, Hitler's vice fiihrer, was in Paraguay, but never a mention of Mengele. The half-Russian step- daughter of a West German second secretary assured me that the very v bedroom she occupied in her step- father's house had been used as a bed- room by Bormarm. Strangers came to me with tales of B-ormann. The Minister of the Interior4dgar" tInstran,-.1 who controlled security forces, volunteered to me in confi- dence that he believed Bormann left Europe at the end of World War II on a Vatican *passport and was then in Paraguay. He promised to give me further information. He never did, and I asked him several times abcxn it. He finally replied he had been mistaken. Despite the dictatorship, Paraguay, whose capital then had only 130,000 in- habitants, did not keep secrets. Al- most anybody who had indoor plumb- ing knew everybody else who did. It is conceivable that Mengele was there and people thought it was Bar- maim, buti strongly doubt either was there between Dec. 1, 1959 and Jan. 25, 1964, when 1 had the responsibility of - knowing and reporting to Washington all political matters of interest to the U.S. A. DANE. BO WEN JR. Lock Haven, Pa'.;-Feb, 19, 1955 The writer is professor of history and economics at Loth Haven University. NAZI WAR CRIMES DISCLOSURE ACT 2000
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