KLAUS BARBIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140023-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: May 27, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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~+~ May 27, 1983 8:15 AM crrY Washington, DC
Klaus Barbie
BRYANT GUMBEL: Still more revelations about one of
l~;orld War II's most wanted war criminals, the infamous Klaus
Barbie,
It's known that he worked for U.S. counterintelligence
immediately following World War II. But, was he a CIA ao_ent
oaid with our tax dollars, even in the 1970's?
Investigative reporter Ernest Volkman has written in
an upcoming edition of "Family Weekly" magazine that Barbie's
CIA activities and his criminal activities continued in the
years that he was in Bolivia. h'hat kind of criminal activity
are we talking about here, Mr. Volkman? '
ERNEST VOLKMAN: Name it. First. of all, he ran, or
Helped to run 6olivia's cocaine traffic which,~as a lot of
people know, beginning around-1971 was virtually nationalized
by the military junta that was running the country. He
recruited for them a gang of paramilitary thugs that in fact
was the enforcement squad for the cocaine traffic.
.GUMBEL: How large a gang are we talking about here?
VOLKMAN: Somewhere around 6,000 people all together.
These are the people who guarded the landing strips to make
sure people didn't steal the cocaine. These were the people
who made sure that the farmers weren't cheating when they were
selling the cocoa base for the cocaine. These were the people
who made sure that the traffic rolled nice and smoothly.
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