FORMER NAZI REPORTEDLY HAD U.S. INTELLIGENCE TIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140055-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: November 9, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140055-8
ARTICLE X ?THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ON P,6C~ 9 NOVEMBER 1982
SACRAMENTO ,' Calif: (AP) - A for- feared revealing military secrets
merNazi SS captain who died this year Von'Bolschwing contended that``he i
after giving up his U.S. citizenship said aided U.S. intelligence agencies during ?'
in newly released.. documents -that, he' and after World WarII.:Justice Depart-
.worked for -several U.S. intelligence meet documents carry testimony say-
ae~~~s,' the .Sacramento -.Bee, ing .the 'Central Intelligence-..Agency
had instructed him - to "keep. secret .his,
The documents, obtained by, the activities prior to applying.for citizen
newspaper through the Freedom of ship in.1945.
Information Act, also show that. Otto The'lBee reported,that itobtained a
"von.Bolschwing admitted in 1970, long copy of'an interrogation conducted,on
after 'he was granted U.S. citizenship, Dec. 22,4970, in which Von Bolschwing
that he had -hadties=with:Adolf.Eich- ,,admitted ties:;with,.the.Nazi Party, the-:,
mann, since executed for-war 'crimes elite SS corps andEichmann.
Von Bolschwing had been ' charged In the interrogation;; -he_said he `fell
with concealing 'his Nazi Party mem- out offavor with the Nizis'in'. 1942,-was
bership when applying for U.S..citizen--' arrested by the Gestapo and?held seven
ship.- months without charges .;later he %
Von Bolschwmg died March 7,1982,;- moved :''"to Vienna.wherehe:acquir"ed?a
at age 72. He had voluntarily given up small business
his U.S. citizenship' -in an:,agreement ' ` ;After the July 1944attempt on Adolf
under which he would not be=deported Hitler's-life,-.2 friend warned that'he
as .long as his ;health -was bad ''He was Jo, be arrested :vVon . Bolschwing.?_.
suffered from supra nuclear palsy, a