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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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HOTEL v,AZA A11 'T NEE NEW YORK and awaiting your pleasure. Now there are two. OTRUSTHOUSE FORTE EXCLUSIVE HOTELS Toll-free 800-223-5672 Menee Slreet 'twit 10021 100 H6tel Plaza Athenee 25 Avenue Montaigne 75008 Paris 723-78-33 hunter was interested solely in making money and defaming Paraguay. This is just another turn in the Paraguayan tragi. comedy, since the country has always been a haven for right- wing extremists, or just em- bezzlers, swindlers and con men on the run. The acknowl- edged list now includes Georges Main, who once tried to kill Charles de Gaulle; Gaetano Orlando, an Italian neo-Fascist whose extradition on criminal charges was re- jected, and Auguste Ricord, the French-born international drug dealer who returned to Paraguay after being released from an American prison last year. The general expectation of people like these — many of them Germans attracted by the fact that about a tenth of Paraguay's population has some German background — is that compassion is avail- able at a price. Some find it. Some do not: German sources tell of a German den- tal-supply salesman who ar- rived recently with suitcases ' containing 110 kilograms of gold, which he had accumu- lated by faking orders from his clients, First the suitcases disappeared, then the sales- man, Among those alighting in AsunciOn• during the last few ,eal-s),., wasi,..Hans Hermann Weyer, a West German who had specialized at home in selling phony titles to used- car dealers hungry for re- spectability. In Paraguay, which ignored three extradi- tion requests for him on fraud charges, Mr. Weyer concen- trated on real-estate deeds and drivers' licenses — both reputedly of his own design. Then he moved on, Like movie listings, the newspapers save space for extradition news. One day It's a couple of embezzling Argen- tine bankers; another day it's a phony Spanish priest. The local rule is that when you can't pay, you go. Two Amer- !cans, Richard Cochran and Janet Krebs, wanted for rob-, bing a Nevada bank, found this out in August. Their ar- rest was announced, and a newspaper story followed, saying that about $900,000 had been seized at the same time. Then another report ap- peared, saying the take was really more than $1 million, plus jewelry. A third story, published a few days later, said 'a lawyer had been- ar- rested and the sum involved was, in fact, $2.7 million. What happened, a foreign source explained, was that there had been some competi- tive bidding among police factions on protection lees, and that the deal had Lofte, out of control, Paraguay made the best it; The money, with great an. rare ceremony, was trusted to the cat-c ot the he! tral Bank, and an extradite., request from the Unite. States Embassy for Mr, Crs chran and Mrs. Krebs "-i-1•, granted. G ENERAL STROESS nor always makes th best of things, followmg the rule he has created for himself — buying out oi beating up; one generally works as well as the other His refinement, his special to- talitarian discovery, is that if you destroy a people's honor long enough, many will think of themselves as beyond re- pair. In a green-walled class- room of AsunciOn's Catholfc University, I talked to a group of students. They spoke of themselves In an odd, Jar- ring language for young peo- ple, one of enormous sell-con- tempt. Again and again the comments were despairing, self-lacerating: "I'm not hopeful. If he dies, it can get worse. He keeps a balance." "There Is no political op. tion. The young people are rotten. There are no moral values. When he •gdes. it's more of the same." 'You don't change any- thing. Maybe through vio- lence, maybe through a revo- lution, but the people are pas- slve.'' "We hate him." "Our desire Is to become a real democracy, but this Is so hard. We most be cautious." Carmen Lara Castro, presi- dent of the Paraguayan Human Rights Commission and a woman whose entire family has been jailed, tor- tured or exiled, describes the essential characteristics of Paraguayan life as indiffer- ence and fear, The opposition parties, she says, are largely to blame for their feebleness, "They have been irresponsi- ble and petty, wasting them- selves in their own endless in- fighting." The truth Is, the opposition, allowed to function within the parameters of rigged elec- tions to a sham parliament and the Colorado Party's sys- tern of surveillance and pa- tronage, does not come to much, and when it cannot be bought, It is beaten. ABC Color, the newspaper that edged closest to questioning the President's authority and methods, was shut down this spring. Mr. Rubin, the radio broadcaster, says he has been in and out of Jail 10 times.
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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.