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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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accused of involvement in killings and illegal surgical operations in Ger- many in 1939 and 1990, left Argentina in custody . of German authorities in 1966 after the Supreme Court here granted his extradition. . Franz Stangl, commander of the • Treblinka death camp in Poland, was extradited in 1967 from Brazil where he had lived and worked for 17 years. Convicted of murder, he later died in prison. Extradition proceedings are still under way in Brazil against Gustav France Wagner, 68, accused of send- ing hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths while serving as deputy commander of the Sobibor concentra- tion camp in Poland, Wagner was ar- ' rested last year in Sao Paulo, Brazil, • and is held at present in Brasilia, the nation's capital. .• •, , • Doctor to Popes Dies ROME—Retired Papal physician . Mario Fontana died Monday night, 'one year to the day after signing the death certificate of Pope Paul VI, his family said Tuesday. Fontana, 75, served three Popes—. John XXIII, Paul VI, and his succes- sor John Paul 1—who died only six weeks after Paul VI. gas karzeler5 Otraz5 Forest Fire Hits C Area in Spain, GERONA, Spain (R—A wind, : Because Lis whipped forest fire swept through a .. miles betw camping site near Spain's northeast .. - lain that ti ern coast Tuesday, killing at least 22 , ident of ti' persons, including four children wad- , Juan Vidal. ing in a canal, police reported. • The offic They feared the death toll would • more than, climb as forest rangers, firemen and The civil guards searched the charred p.m., Gerd camping area near the resort town of ..-. the camps' Lloret de Mar, on Spain's famous Cos- • Search ta Brava, 40 miles northeast of Barce- • -bodies ,..e7 lona. IlCar Police said the bodies of 12 men, six children women and four children were found . where th, after the flames jumped the Blanes- playing in Lloret de Mar highway and encircled -, the campground, trapping the vie- . time. ' inHero All were believed to be Spani-.. . ards, but the Costa Brava also draws C,Ports tens of thousands of foreign toursits NICE, each year heroin r:( Officials said arson was suspected. French E "It appears the fire started in...lhree Cannes separate places and at the same time. cones age' SAVE UP TO 0/0 ON BROM JORDAN SUMMER C LOR'' SPECTACULAR r .• '2520 SANTA MONICA BLVD, BANKAMERI 9 o.rtt. to 6 p.m, - Mon. thrtr Sot., Fri, HI Opcn Sundoy 10 r• NC N' %Iv • . • ',a ,A•.. • MAUNA KEA KAILUA TAMAMI ISLANDER ORIENT BINA JORDAN ... . ivi.,..... .ar.aguay . ..":"4.›..,4,-'''"' .• • • • ,''' . lialiel,•••.;whopersoiially, directed • the ''.-•, ,:pursuit..and,capture of Eichmann in ' 0Argentina, 'wanted to seize Meng,ele ritoo • but was unable to sylivert the titne and resOurces away.. from his principal '. ,,salon:.)..:`.'.'"'l_., ...•:-:. v., ' ' • 1 V,I ,-.• ,n•:1!The House on . Garibaldi Street"' 'hit'bbok descr .on Ibes-the the Dich home inann in operation, Harel ,44L01.10z;' a.- middle-class Suburb of Sue- -4ios-,lAirea,:rkhere Mengele lived until. ‘4 ust before :the Eichmann 'capture: • . .,.-.'01:a11lthe evil figures who played cipal ,parts in the macabre drama .of:the.attempt to wipe out the Jewish .. •people,',Ularel.,wrote of Mengele,,"he waa l':co.rispicuousl. for'hia abominable njoyrnehtlilif .,his7ale-as death's mes: iengerlf=i,4,,l'....,Y.,•:.(.•.,, .,,.. • • .!- ','After :news of the Eichmann cap- 11,tre'A.wasl made ' public, Argentina's ±.--i . .,: , .Pres,s fclanlored for Mengele's arrest, el,-.l.P,A!V 'p'?"' '" 'and authorities in July, 1960, ordered .-::'''-'f".', •,'',.• police.,,,to:pick him up. But it was al-, zi fugitlyea,-Men'..,. .reddyilfar ,..'• too ' late. 'Israeli agents ' ff°r‘... ..4.11jcIP.'' hi ' L'traced himi to a hotel in Asuncion and from there to Hohenau.... r„,lMengele,..49 when he fled Argenti• Mals . f)8:'today, In the years between, • ye,'is assumed to have changed his ..appearance-o' which 'Tonce included -blond ;.: hair and moustache. He is .knOw.li'to. j.iav e used 11 false names in tlaatf time, with .false .'idocuments to .;.'"..Since'i'West German authorities in ehmery 'firm man-, 1973 identified a skeleton found near ''-')36)',..11t4).°1'''-4k'oBerlin as that of Dep. Fuehrer Martin • wrwg ''' agu4,7an. I3ormann, •.:'Mengele*, has been the a ' qe.rmariC°Ii-rtl,' sworld's most wanted Nazi fugitive. ' r 1.y4'44 ,s,V-fl:i,-141,?„;WA Over the years, he has been report- ' Y'-'• ''' '. 'ed'Seen .a number of timesin southern warrant:,-,Germanyi 'Brazil,' home of 80,000 German na• ,c9flhiSI:extraditlon iml' itionals and More than 2 million per- is returnetwithoutA s o os of German ,descent. Wiesenthal s9, on the'Lechni-„tk, has documented several of Mengele's shouldhave , b,eeq,prips to:Europe-where his wife and • ' r3TF.i.V.ct-h, ari_ .:-Y• -iill'..,,' 'son still live. - , i • — Z, ''' s'''';'"'6,.`r•;:`,..i.'a...,These include a visit to Germany in in.iParaguo --,, sh,,Ovw 'L.theio.96,0s:for his father's funeral and i .e Jo,' el&g the (Jose G . rman ...is..1.41e•a 'vacation' near Torremolinos, Spain of , i'whereWiesenthal says. he came identity'doc_urn,ent'Iwithiw.iwo.days of catching up with S al101oritis,IDYC,T-Chlin.iri-1.970., inth.'''Siz..41;iilT.hei.Veteran Nazi hunter once said,;Ae- i'citi latei zerishiplPy.,(Lr..Athati,i'hunt ing Mengele is a dangerous several men who tried kto'do so have lost theft lives." .i liyeilrii,l4rgentina i • e sp ectacalar.' MaY *;,,''.A`funong'-Nazi 'war .criminals known ,:re9OV,:Adolfi Fichr i'qor..Suspected to have taken refuge in seer.e.t',;. agentt :..Who,..,-.;so,011..;:Arnerica, only two have ever • l'6Varerf fØr41.-1,_alSbeeri .•returned to face trial after sue- 1 fo.t,:).Ii i.. .*044ssful -extradition proceedings. ;eKvi .ce- f rIss et,'Il4i40.I9-4',.-iiilil. ' , • ,":Gerharci,Johannes Bohne, a lawyer ";*31'illiOelit-' ''..,. t..,,,,-, •-• i' . i•- • — Cr14,' ii tind'the se": travelecj to Ar, late- GenNuan.,11..., 'dto livelindei'AiiivC sial Uleirifd--1960i Mengel t'Sons, a NAZI WAR CRIMES DISCLOSURE ACT
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