LETTER TO ALFONSE M. D AMATO FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2009
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• Publication Date: February 25, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C. 20505 369/1
25 January 1985
Dear Al,
Thanks for your note about the research on
Mengele. I understand that Stan Sporkin is meeting
with you shortly and I will be interested in how
the two of you see what we would be able to do on
this to help you.
Yours,
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William J. Casey
The Honorable Alfonse M. D'Amato
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510
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ALFONSE M. D'AMATO
NEW YORK
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January 24, 1985
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
I write today to request your assistance on a matter of deep
concern to me, to the American people, and to the international
community. I ask that you direct the formation of a special team
to conduct an intensive search of intelligence records for any
and all information directly or indirectly concerning Dr. Josef
Mengele, the chief physician at the Nazi extermination camp at
Auschwitz. I further ask that you personally review any informa-
tion located by this search and that you exercise your authority
to declassify and release it to the public, so that the "Angel of
Death" of Auschwitz may be apprehended and brought to justice for
his monstrous crimes.
An article published in the New York Times on January 23,
1985, entitled "Papers Indicate Mengele May Have Been Held and
Freed After War," is based upon declassified intelligence records
obtained by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. The
story states that "the declassified documents include a letter
dated April 26, 1947, from Ben J. M. Gorby, a special agent of
the United States Counter-Intellience Corps in Germany, to the
commanding officer of the 430th C.I.C. detachment in Vienna.
Mr. Gorby wrote that his office had received information that
Dr. Mengele 'has been arrested in Vienna.' An informant, he went
on, 'stated that to the best of his knowledge Dr. Mengele was
arrested in the U.S. Zone of Germany' - an apparently erroneous
reference to Vienna, where the 430th unit was stationed."
I understand that records from the post-war period are
voluminous, poorly catalogued, and badly indexed. I further
understand that these indices are either not cross referred or
are poorly cross referred. Thus, a conventional search in
response to a Freedom of Information Act request is unlikely to
locate information which in fact could exist in these records.
The United States must not allow one of the worst Nazi war
criminals to escape justice because of the quirks of our intelli-
gence records filing system. Accordingly, I ask that you contact
retired Army C.I.C. personnel and retired C.I.A. personnel who
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