LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM CHARLES B. RANGEL

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• Publication Date: March 5, 1985
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SELECT COMMITTEE ON
NARCOTICS ABUSE AND CONTROL
ROOM H2-234, HOUSE OFFICE SURDING 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:
OEN.AMIN A GILMAN N Y
SANK NG M .NCRI"' MLMBEq
LAWRENCE COUGHLIN PA
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 8. LOWE. IN
CHIEF COUNSEL
ELLIOTT A. BROWN
MINONTY STAFF DIRECTOR
Executive Registry
85- 968
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 Linked
To Drug Trafficking
Two Senator. s Release CIA Documents -
By Ball Peterson
*'Nos h 5 Wmw
Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor
lmown 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 doaaomts released yesterday.
The derlasrified material shows
that Mengeb. the most
notorious
caused. Nazi war aimioal. behaved
to be stall 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 Stroessoa.
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 agen-
cies.if they had any information an
Mengele. wanted for prosecution in
West Germany and Israel.
Sea. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and
Alfaose?M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.). who
released the documents,- charged
that federal cffcials:failedto fellow
up leads about .Mengeie- and asked
the U.S. government to Ind a
worldwide. hnnt for:him.
Nazi, sancides-are-a- in
history that the United States
wants to -sweep -adder-toe rug.'
Specter said. "Nobodyrealy givesa
damn about Nazi war criminals.'
Mengele. who would be 73 1
alive: was a physician and former
major in the Nara secret police. who
allegedly sent thousands of concen-
traaon.camp prisoners to their
deaths in gas dmambers and used
others. including. many chi dren, in
psafimk medical a~ecimeats.
The Simon-Wiesentbd Curter in
Las Angeles has offered -a it adI
lion reward for information leading
to bis apttae and.actrado
The 28 pages of heavily-cemor~ed
CIA dots provide many he-
cinating glimpses of Mengele's.life,
but it is-.dkfficult to determine how
much of the information is credible
or is-hearsay.
A 1972 document said that Men-
gala arrived in Paraguay for the
first time in 1951--and Jived alter.
natey there and .in Baaaal. Argen-
tina and Uruguay, workamg at times
as a salesman for a West- German
farm-machinery:Yam owned: by We
famtiy, and as ao auto mac panic.
Mengele "never tried' to- Mel is
identity in his. early years in:Sond-
America and in 1959 was mtnol-
iaed as a Paraguayan atit~m under
his own name. another document.
said In 1970 the CIA reported iv-
man-that Mengele lived at a; well-
guardedranch in eastern Paraguay-
. ed.b .
One scorns told the CIA that
Mengele underwent plastic sus gay
in 1974.and"bohs mush younger -
than his age,' a document said. The
same sonrc0 said that, in 196
Mengele lived x ft Marti Bat
mom, Adolf Hitler's designated
anCa!aaoc. widey believed to have-
died in Berfm in 1945.
.Anotber morn who
imew htengele wall told the ak -
that Mengele was 'a-mice peraou
who provided free mud;ual care _ _ .
Mengde apparently was fast
brought taCIA attentionbya "petty-
aimioai,' who told them Mengele,
using the name-Dr- Bemigtre Wall-
man, lived an a farm war Encar.
noon. Paraguay,-and yeas. "hstvaig
involved in mrcotios traffic'
In 1979, the CIA's Strategic Nor,
autia Tom sublaittedaaacoc&e1c_
the Iot instiood Narcotics.iavisw
mentioning the drag :epacts-Tk
article was withdraws becaasa t.
was band on very
evidence, according toa CIA men,.
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