LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM CHARLES B. RANGEL

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• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 5, 1985
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 CHARLES E'. 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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BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, N.Y.
Rico RANKING MINORITY MEMBER
LAWRENCE COUGHLIN, PA.
I.#. oust, of Itrprrsrntotiurs
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
Dear Mr. Casey:
E. CLAY SHAW, JR., FLA.
MICHAEL G. OXLEY, OHIO
JOEL PRITCHARD, WASH.
STAN PARRIS, VA.
GENE CRAPPIE, 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
LESISLA R! Lilo S9N
C16 -- D -7 73
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
appreciated.
With best regards.
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Nazi Fugitive. Li ed.
To
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.Two Senators Release CIA Documents
By Bill' Peterson
WWlStoo Poet Staff Writer
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 declassified matezial shows
that Mengele, the most notorious.
accused. Nazi ?war:.criminal. believed
to be still at large, traveled freely in
.South .America?did.not try to hide
his- identity, and may. have lived un-
der the. protection of Paraguayan
President Alfredo Ste.
The Central Intelligence Agency .
began receiving reports of Men-
gele's alleged involvement in drug
trafficking in 1972, and. as recently
as 1979 it asked other federal ages-
cies:.if they had any. information on
Mengele, wanted for. prosecution in
West Germany and. Israel
Sens. Aden Specter (R-Pa.) and
...... Alfouse-M. D'Amato (R-N;Y.), who
released . the documents,. charged
that federal ofaalst?failed ?to follow
.up.. leads about.Mengele- and :asked
the US. government to lead a
worldwide : hunt for: him.
NazFatmcities.ar+e."a.chapter in
history. that the United States..
wants to sweep under the rug;"
.Specter said "Nobody really gives:a
damn about Nazi war criminals."
Mengele, who would be 73 if
alive, was a physician : and former
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
painful medical ems.
The Simone Wiesenthal Center in
Los Angeles has offered .a $1-mil-
lion reward for information leading
The 28 .pages of heavily-censored
CIA documents provide.; many. fas=
cinating-glimpses of Mengele's..life,
but it is-.difficult to determine.how
much of the information is credible
or is, hearsay.
A.1972:document.said .that Men-
gele arrived in Paraguay for the
first -time in 1951 ...and :lived alter-
nately there and .in Brazil, Argen-
tina and, Uruguay, working.at times
as. a salesman for a West -German
farm-machinery firm owned.by. his
family, and.as.an auto-mechanic . -..
Mengele "never- tried":to-hidei4ilis
identity in his. early =years. in South
America and . in .1959 was natural-
ized . as a Paraguayan citizen under.. .
his own name,. another docrment...
said. In 1970 the CIA reported:ru-:
mors.-that Mengele. lived at aiwell--.
guarded .ranch .in :eastern
Paraguay
"protected:by Stroessner."
One .source... told . the CIA that
Mengele underwent plastic surgery
an 1974-and"1ooksmuch % younger--
than his age," a document said The
same source said. that, in 1968;
Mengele lived with ' . ,Martin. Bog
mane, . Adolf Hitler's designated
successor, widely believed -to have
died im Berlin in: 1-945.'
Another source who reportedly
knew Mengele well told the CIA
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that :Mengele was "a>nice persoj",
who provided free medical care. -
Mengele apparently was first
brought to-CIA attention. by -a "petty-
criminal," who told them Mengele,
using the name Dr..Henrique W.04.
man, lived on a. farm new Encar-
nacion,. Paraguay,. andwas.."heavi1y
involved in narcotics traffic."
In 1979, the CIA's. Strategic Nar?
cotics Team. submitted aniar>ide,ZC
the International.Narcotics.Revievr -
mentioning the drug reports.:T.
article was withdrawn because-I..
was. based on very circumstantiE
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