Documents / FOIA release
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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. P067 -,1Ikg oL 17 ALBUM: View of the barracks'it Auschwitz. Insets: Mengele in Paraguay in 1980, and prisoners marching through Auschwitz. ttiNi)t. ,ouna. . .■gt.,P...tofqlpto,,,..1 • • ' Tales 'of; the . P.',ng4.`oilbeatfi;':....1d.l.:O■rO.r'and over: they come from Auschwitz, 'front thejuIfa aoflSO0th America, frciiii CIA files, from fevered NaziliStrhck imaginations, from hucksters of hellish relics. Somehow, "theY, are all different, but all the . sarire. • , Take the woman in'the jewelry store in AsiMción, Par- aguay:She told anlsraelErifficial about the day in 1965 when a customer asked about sOMe merchandise. She came around the courtier. She saw Josef- Mengele. Two decades before, trim and elegant in his sleek black SS uniform, he had per- sonally dispatched . 409,000 other Jews' to-the ovens with a flick of his black-gloved 'wriSt. But not her She'd . survived. And now he was browsing in her jewelry store, just one of 40,000 Germans liviagia Paraguay. She could not speak, she would say later. She watched lere' nirn:leaVe• an ,ther04}1,01 Mengele.:' •• . • For 40 years one Ofibe Monsters of history has wandered the globe 'untOu6hed, a free . man: the most notorious Nazi war driminal believed , alive , today, the Auschwitz doctor whose mass Murder's •alid grisly experirnerits evoke EVi4 In- darnate. How can this be? West Germany has_had a warrant out for luS•••Orrest for'26.' years and has added a $350,000 reward. Israell.Nazi hunters spirited Adolf Eichmann out of Argentina, biit others have missed Mengele;they'say, by minutes at a Paraguayan hotel, by little more at the Rome airport. CIA informants put him in Brazil, in Chile;an the drug trade or working as an auto me- chanic. German prosecutors believe he may have been in Paraguay as late as 1982, if a jailed drug suspect can be be- What's 'more, the sightings began •us •soon as the Thill Reich fell. American GIs say they saw him in an Army pris4 a German professor claims he interviewed Mengele at a BriCr, ish prison camp in 1947. After that Mengele lived in :0 home-town in Bavaria, where his family had Made its fortu4 •in the farni'machinery lbuainess. His name arose at 4hel,s4 •-rembeig:Warcriine trials, and he fled to Rome, where her's •said'to have' gotten papers under the nanie of GregdriOG gori. • In either .1949 or 1951, according to cohflicting:report he sailed from Italy to Argentina,' where he lived Crider: own name in Buenos Aires, hawking heavy equipment foi.the family firm. Neighbors say he was "quiet, distinguished all courteous." • As Dr. Helmut Gregor, one of the dozen shades he adopt See MENGELE, C8, CoL 1 lei:;:Nlfzi Doctor of .Death? Wri> him, It was hived: He is said to have been Mengele's roommate outsi e AsunciOn,Where they shared a passion for beekeeping. -
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