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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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where the Queen stands guard.
the Chateau de Chambord, or
Viking lodges. The relative
prosperity of the last few
years has produced a small
middle class more interested
in possessions than in poli-
tics.
General Stroessner's enor-
mous good luck, In a sense,
was to come to power in a
country so devastated, so
miserable that the capital
had no running water In 1954,
and the country had only
minimal electrification. Over
the years, he has had the as-
tuteness to turn every light
bulb into an enterprise that
sounds like the Gen. Don Al-
fredo Stroessner Citizens Il-
lumination Project, every
drain pipe into the splendor of
a National Hygiene Consorti-
um, Don Alfredo Stroessner,
President.
The small-town politician's
sociological skills — "Stroess-
ner looks like a Bavarian but
thinks like a Guarani Indian,"
says a European ambassador
— were accompanied by a
fabulous windfall. The con-
struction by Paraguay and
Brazil of the Itaipt.5 Darn on the
Brazilian border — in Para-
guay's case, almost entirely
with other people's money —
brought Paraguay a clear $1.8
billion in revenue from 1975 to
1983. The hydroelectric
project, described as the
world's biggest, gave' Para-
guay, for a while, the fastest
growth in the hemisphere. The
money, and its dribble-down
effects on the population,
modulated the need to brutal-
Ire,
After decades of terror sent
about a million Paraguayans
out of the country, the rush of
cash purchased a kind of na-
tional docility, and allowed
an occasional slackening of
the whip hand. Last year,
when the Government broke
up the Paraguayan Data
Bank, a group trying to fur-
nish statistics to contrast
with the regime's own on na•
tional wealth and its pathetic
distribution, only two of the 30
people arrested complained
of being tortured, "By local
historical standards, an en-
lightened percentage," a dip-
lomat said. This summer, a
businessman told of two
Paraguayans being arrested
when they bumbled into a po-
lice shake-down scheme.
Naked, they were made to
kneel and stare at a white-
painted wall for nine hours, If
they tried to move or close
their eyes, they were beaten.
"Not the real hard stuff," ac-
cording to the businessman.
The Minister of the Interi-
or, Sablno Montanaro, who
has been excommunicated by
the Roman Catholic Church
for intolerable abuses over
the years (and who, more I-,
cently, has been restored Or
the faith), mumbles some-
thing about subversives when
the torture question comes
up. In an interview, he says,
"We are against all harass-
ment."
Don Alfredo does not enjoy
such unpleasant subjects.
The foreigners who see him
regularly are of two schools
One of them reports that he Is
Incapable of answering pre-
cise questions, and that Jr,
conversation runs to rernlInrn
cences from the Chaco J0,
and ramblings about cornmu.
nIsm, subversives, do-good.
ers and being unappreciated
These visitors regard him as
In clear decline: he is old,
they say, sometimes clear
enough in the head to cancel
someone's permit to import a
Volkswagen or a sal., r
slicer, but gradually fossIliz.
Mg, the last of the South
American dinosaurs turning
slowly to stone. The other
school insists that the general
is all there when he neecis to
be, One frequent visitor, a bi t-
of an archivist, has compiled
a small folio of Stroessner-
isms delivered before dawn:
"Even Carter thought I was
doing a good job. He was fl
fool, he destroyed people's
faith in America. I am one of
America's best friends, but
the United States treats their
enemies better than their
friends."
"Pinochet is a failure. He
never created an organiza-
tion, a type of democracy that
would give people a sense of
participation."
"Somoza was arrogant. A
boozer."
"I can understand why
Reagan would not want to see
me. It wouldn't be good for
him politically."
"No one starves here."
"Some countries — the real
people — are not politically
mature enough to sustain a
United States type of democ-
racy. Paraguay is one."
"I am no dictator."
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SUNCION IS A POKY
place that actually
smells of orange blos-
soms. By South A rns,-.
loan standards, It Is short en
the dismal and the desperate:
A couple of kids sleep on the
sidewalk; a barefoot boy sells
papers In the nasty rain of the
austral winter. In truth,
AsuncirOn largely escapes the
assault of endless, gagging
misery. On Saturday nights,
what there is of the new middle
class stakes out part-iliac/us
(grill restaurants) In Miarlsr.
bought leisure suits to eat and
stare. If you listen hard, yob
can still hear men playing the Not linked to a story yet.
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