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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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ARAGUAY WORKS like this: Rtnan parks his car, and to keep it from being stolen, he attaches it to a rope tied around his waist. The man is arrested walkint.:through ON ?get!). ork 6itte4301againtt /SEPTEMSER 23, 1984 A REPUBLIC OF FEAR I8 Thirty Years of P,;§ General Stroessner's Paraguay national dignity, which, officially, has been restored and exalted over the last 30 years by El Excelentisimo, the President of the Republic Don Al- fredo Stroessner, General of the Army, First Magistrate of the land. Beaten, .robbed, demeaned, the man eventually bribes his way out of jail. He finds his automobile on a used car lot, and informs the dealer. "That's a break for you," the dealer says. "You know the real mileage." Paraguay lives with its legends of total villainy and near-complete resignation, and it tells about them in stories and dreams and truths. Some- times they are visions of General Stroessner going into retirement at a ranch, sitting in a rocker beside Dr. Josef Mengele down by Lake Itaipti and offering newts and baby chicks to the piranhas. Sometimes they are ac- counts like the one given by a bnsi- nessman to a visitor about a client's housekeeper Who had her fingernails yanked ut.. recently by the police. , '!Someaind •tSi theft " he says Thetoneardicina shrug, parlor re- .' be worse, it sug- gests. There are worse places than Paraguay. Thirty years of General Stroessner: a continual state of siege over the en- tire period that literally places the President above the law; people with occasionally uncontrollable urges to fall into rivers or jump from planes with their arms and legs bound; sere- nades in front of the presidential pal- ace featuring the ever-popular "For- ward, My General" and "Congratula- John Vinocur, chief of The Times's Paris bureau, visited Paraguay last month. By John Vinocur Left: Gen. Alfredo Stroessner's 30th anniversary as ruler of Paraguay was marked by a parade, through the streets of AsunciOn, that included the goose- stepping military. Right: Stroessner salutes his troops
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