LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM CHARLES B. RANGEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 5, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
ROUTING SLIP
STAT
3637 (10-81'
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 CHARLES B. RANGEL, N.Y.
CHAIRMAN
PETER W. RODINO, JR., N.J.
FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK, CALIF.
JAMES H. SCHEUER, N.Y.
CARDISS COLLINS, ILL.
DANIEL K. AKAKA, HAWAII
FRANK J. GUARINI, N.J.
ROBERT T. MATSUI, CALIF.
DANTE B. FASCELL, FLA.
WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C.
WILLIAM J. HUGHES, N.J.
SAM B. HALL, JR., TEX.
MEL LEVINE, CALIF.
SOLOMON P. ORTIZ, TEX.
LAWRENCE J. SMITH, FLA.
EDOLPHUS "ED" TOWNS, N.Y.
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L muse of epresentatturs
SELECT COMMITTEE ON
NARCOTICS ABUSE AND CONTROL
ROOM H2-234, HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING ANNEX 2
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
March 5, 1985
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, N.Y.
RANKING MINORITY MEMBER
LAWRENCE COUGHLIN. PA.
E. CLAY SHAW. JR., FLA.
MICHAEL G. OXLEY, OHIO
JOEL PRITCHARD, WASH.
STAN PARRIS, VA.
GENE CHAPPIE, CALIF.
DUNCAN HUNTER, CALIF.
TOM LEWIS, FLA.
JOHN T. CUSACK
CHIEF OF STAFF
RICHARD B. LOWE. III
CHIEF COUNSEL
ELLIOTT A. BROWN
MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
Executive Registry
85- 968
Dear Mr. Casey:
The Washington Post of February 27, 1985, reports that
your agency has provided Senators Alfonse M. D'Amato and
Arlen Specter with a report alleging the involvement of the
notorious Nazi war criminal, Josef Mengele, in the narcotics
traffic in Paraguay around 1970.
Would you kindly provide this Committee with that
report? Your cooperation in this matter is very much
With best regards.
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Nazi Fugitive Linked
To Drug Traffic
Two Senators Release CIA Documents
By Bill Petason
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Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor
known as the 'Angel of Death" at
the Auschwitz concentration camp,
may have been "heavily involved.in
narcotics traffic" from his home in
Paraguay in the 1970s. according to
CIA documents released yesterday.
The dedasa6ed .material shows
that Mengele, the most notorious
accused. Nazi war cimioai. believed
to be still at large, traveled freely in
South .America..didact try to bide
his identity. and may have lived un-
der the protection of Paraguayan
President Alfredo Straeeeoer.
The Central Intelligence Agency
began receiving reports of Men-
gele's alleged involvement in drug
trifficking in 1972, and-as recently
as 1979 it asked other federal ages-
cies.if they had any arformation.on
Mengele. wanted for prosecution in
West Germany and Israel.
Sens. Aria Specter (R-Pa.) and
Alfonse-M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.). who
relased the dock.. charged
that federal offiiciais'faaled to fellow
up leads about .Mengele- and asked
the U.S. government to lad a
worldwide. hunt far.him.
Nazi, attnchies. nee - "a duspter in
history that the United States
wants to .sweep under -the rug,"
..Specter said. "Nobodyrealy givesa
damn about Nan war ammals."
Mengele, who world be 73 if
alive, was a physician and farmer
major in the Nazi secret police.who
allegedly sent thousands of concen-
tration-camp prisoners to their
deaths in gas chambers and used
others. including many children. in
t
The Simon Wiesentbd Center in
Las Angeles has ofered.a $1-mil-
lion reward for information leading
to his capture and ectradition.
The 28 pages of heavily-censored
CIA documents provide, many. fas-
cinating glimpses of Mengele's_ life,
but it is-.diff=lt to determine how
much of the information is agile
or is: head
A. 1972 document said that Men-
gele arrived in Paraguay for the
feat time in 1951-and lived alter-
nately there and .in Beam. Argen-
tiam. and Uruguay, worlong at times
as a salesman fora West. German
farm-machioery'Srm owned. by his
family, and-as.an automechaoic
Mengele "never tried" to. hideehis
identity in his. early -Imn-in Swab
America and in 1959 was nstuoi-
iaed as a Paraguayan dtiaea ender
his own name, soother dowment.
said. In 1970 the CIA reported:rn=
mots-that Mengele lived at a iwell-
guarded .ranch in.eastern Paraguay..
"bye"
One socu+oe told the CIA that
Mengele cuderweat plastic surgery
in 1974-and"7ooks much younger -
thm his age," a document said. The
some source said that, in 1968;
Mengeie lived with ' Martin Bof
mean, Adolf Hitler's designated
successor, widely believed -to have-
died in Berlin in 1945.
Another source who reportedly
knew Mengele well told the CIA;
that Mengel was "a-nice person;
who provided free medical cam'- -
Mengele apparently was first
brought toCIA attention bye "petty
c" who told Y`Am ,
using the name Dr..Bendque Wall-
man. lived on a farm new Facar-
naaoo. Paraguay, and - "heavily
involved in narcotics .traffic."
In 1979, the CIA's Strategic Nap
cotics Team. submitatedaearti@e;tc
the International Narcotics. Review
mentioning the drug reports ..I
artic a was withdrawn benusa if.
was based on very aramstantii,
evidence, according toa CIA meas.
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SELECT COMMITTEE ON
NARCOTICS ABUSE AND CONTROL
ROOM H2-234, HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING ANNEX 12
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
( ~A-o f M.C.
The Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligenle
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
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