NAZI FUGITIVE LINKED TO DRUG TRAFFICKING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605000003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 27, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

' Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605000003-1
"~''ICL APPEAItt~
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WASHINGTON POST
27 February 1985
Nazi Fugitive Linked.
To.r , Trafficking....
Two Senators Release CIA Documents
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ties if they had any information on One source told. the CIA that,
Mengele, wanted-for prosecution in Mengele underwent plastic surgery
West_.GermanyandIsrael. .:;,-_`_ in.-1.974 and "looks--much-younger
Sens." Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and than his age," a document said. The
Alfonse. M: DTAmato (R-N.Y.), who -same source. said that, - in--1968;
released the a documents, charged Mengele lived with Martine or,
that federal officials''failed.to'follow mann, Adolf Hitler's designated
up leads about.Mengele and .asked successor, .}widely; believed to have
the U.S ; government to lead a died in-Berlin in _1945
worldwide hunt for him Another source who reportedly
Nazi atrocities are'"a chapter. in knew Mengele ?well,. told the CIA
history , that the United -States that Mengele was "a nice person
wants to sweep, under ~ the. rug," who provided free medical care.
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President Alfredo Stroessner. _ u a4:.1JJJ ;-IV ' lial~jk
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as a Paraguayan citizen und
The Central,Intelligence Agency his own name, ?anotherdocun*a
began receiving reports of, Men- said. In 1970 'the CIA reported"
gele's alleged involvement in drug mors that Mengele lived at a welt=
trafficking in 1972, and as recently ,guarded ranch in: eastern Paraguay"
as 1979 it asked other federal agen- - -"protected b
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dentity, and may nave lived un- identity in his a irly years in _Sa t
Paraguay in.the 1970s, accorc m to ~ g rive. in araguay for u
g first time u 1951 _. and:. lived alter
CIA documents released yesterday, nately there and in Brazil, Argen-
The declassified material cshows. ;tina andUruguay, working at tonnes
that Mengele,- the most notorious as -a :salesman for a``.West German
accused Nazi war criminal be { arm- machinery.firm owned bybh s
to.be still at large, traveled freely in farjly, and as an -auto mechanic' #
South America, did not try to hide Mengele,`.'never tried" to hide- b
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By Bill Peterson
The 28 pages of.heavily-censored
CIA documents provide many
fasa
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cinating glimpses of -Mengele's life,
Josef Mengele,-:the Nazi doctor but it isdifficult to determine how
known as the "Angel of Death ' .at.'._.,much of: the mforrriahon is re
+11 A
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 experiments.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center in
Los Angeles has offered a $1 mil-
lion reward for information leading
to his capture and extradition.
damn about Nazi war criminals."
Specter said.
Nobody really gives a
Mengele apparently was first
brought to CIA attention by a "petty
criminal," who told them Mengele,
using the name Dr. Henrique.Woll4-
man, lived, on a farm near` Encar-
nacion,. Paraguay, and was "heavily"
involved in.narcotics traffic." -
In 1979, the CIA's Strategic Nar-
cotics-Team submitted an article -W
the International Narcotics Reviev
mentioning the drug reports. The
article was withdrawn because "pit
was based on very circumstantial,
evidence, according to a CIA memo'
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605000003-1