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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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Leff: For Carmen Lai-vs Castro, a human-rights leader, indifference and fear plague her country. She says her entire family has been tortured, oilied or imprisoned.. One of the le w effective voices questioning Stroessner is the Roman Catholic Church. Says Bishop Melanio Medina, above: "The country has boon impoverished In the worst sense — in Its humanity." Right: With AsunciOn In the background, a mother and child collect water in one of the few remaining slum areas outside the city, modernized during a decade of prosperity. tions, My Great Friend"; foreign thieves, brutes and madmen hidden at a price; an economy administered so corruptly it is officially explained away as the "cost of peace"; a United Nations voting record on so-called key issues more favorable to the United States than any other "ally"; a party newspaper that prints six front-page color pictures of the gen- eral every day. The Paraguay of President Stroess- ner is tragic, in the sense that most of Paraguay's people have learned to re- spond to rule-by-whim with the con- sistent resIsonableness of silence- It is comic in its frequent disorganization and incoherence, its loony juxtaposi- tions and its operetta gold braid. The radio station of the Colorado Party, the general's own, raves about an- other local broadcaster, calling him a "subversive Jewish Castro," but seven Israeli technicians provide maintenance in Asunci6n for the Boe- ing 707's of the state airline. American banks rushed to open nrsnrationC in Asunci6n in the mid- 1970's, sensing the easy money of a Wild West hydroelectric boom, but suddenly found they couldn't collect their debts in a country that is to while-you-wait bankruptcy proceed- ings what Delaware is .to instant in- corporation papers. Justice is a two- foot-high statue of a naked woman holding a scale, dwarfed by a new, Mussolini-modern Supreme Court building funded by the Republic of South Africa. A play is announced, then canceled; the costumes and sets have disappeared. A European country do- nates three trucks to Paraguay's forest service. They arrive In port but don't leave the docks. Finally, after a year, the embassy understands: Customs of- ficials must be bribed to get the gifts into the country. But Paraguay is not a buffoon state, and President Stroessner is no Papa Doc or Idi Amin, men ruling in a flood of the irrational. Those few Para- guayans who openly oppose the Presi- dent call him extraordinarily shrewd, a master at raising and lowering the level of violence and corruption in the
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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.