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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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After Paraguay gained independence in 1811, Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia became the nation's ruler "for life." t• Enummt.m.r.sit.am .C.1•--.14ciddaciistaLam,..111611:Risiummilm_riliqtangi%;;IU E713 .fa„. .1.; f... to. 141aVio-rio .fam- rizamilmumm mos 11.0 .- z-:71.- ‘*-14.01...4:;gpm11" 11 operates on a kind of auto- matic pilot, believe he sleeps much of the day. For a group convinced of his mental acui- ty, the general's afternoon is •the stuff of novels: plotting, and counting money. For the Paraguayan people, who mostly work hard and shut up, the nontelevised doings at the presidential palace repre- sent pure intrigue. A- foreign diplomat's young son was told by the family cook that afternoon is the time when "the old German doctor comes and gives the general Injections of fresh blood." In a sense, General Stroess- ner is no historical accident. After independence in 1811, Paraguay's first ruler was a dictator "for life" — Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Fran- cia, known as El Supremo, who banned all travel, for- eign trade, entry or exit, meetings and mail. Despots of varying compulsions suc- ceeded him. Paraguay be- came the first country in South America to have a rail- road, but it also found itself with a ruler in Francisco Solano Lopez who in 1884 de- vised a way to start a war against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay at the same time. When the war was over, the Paraguayan population of 550,000 was 60 percent dead. Both El Supremo and Mar- shal Lopez are national heroes, perhaps. understand- ably, if you count the 22 presi- dents, several civil wars and endless coups from 1904 to 1936. In the 1930's, a lunatic war with Bolivia over the Chaco desert — land with none or little of the oil the two parties hoped was there — ended with 100,000 more deaths. By 1947, another civil war was on, and by late 1949 six presidents had come and gone over a period of 16 months.. In 1954, It was the turn of , Gen. Alfredo . Stroess- ner, son of a German immi- grant from Bavaria and a Paraguayan mother, to stage a military coup. The general's staying power has been based on con- trolling the military and turn- ing the Colorado Party, tradi- tionally an amalgam of peas- ants and shopkeepers, into an unusually effective grass- roots organization. Each lit- tle town has its Colorado "section,- a dispenser of jobs and , favors and a collector of local intelligence; neither the block committees of the San- dinistas nor the factory coun- cils of East Germany ever worked more effectively. Party membership is usu- ally a precondition for becom- ing a grade-school teacher or being appointed as a soldier or officer in the Presidential Escort Battalion. The mili- tary's loyalty is assured by cutting generals and colonels Into the so-called illegal econ- omy — contraband, kick- backs, pure theft — that even newspapers allied to the Gov- ernment say represents about half the gross national product. Generals whose nominal salary Is about $550 a month can live in a kind of os- tentation that goes beyond caricature. Their houses, built on half-paved roads, look like the White House, or
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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.