GERMANS SAY MENGELE IN PARAGUAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404200020-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 25, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
25 March 1985
STAT
Germans say Mengele in Paraguay
BONN, West Germany (UPI) -
Chancellor Helmut Kohl believes
Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele
is still in Paraguay despite a denial
by the government of the South
American nation, it was reported
Sunday.
The West German magazine Der
Spiegel, citing unidentified sources
in Mr. Kohl's chancellery, said the
West German chancellor does not
believe the Paraguayan govern-
ment's denial.
The sources were quoted as say-
ing Mr. Kohl will press Paraguayan
President Alfredo Stroessner for
clarification of the Nazi war
criminal's whereabouts when Mr.
Stroessner visits West Germany on
July 2-6.
A spokesman for the Paraguayan
government said last month that
Mengele, who carried out barbaric
experiments on prisoners at the
Auschwitz concentration camp, left
Paraguay in 1960.
Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal
has said repeatedly that Mengele
still lives in Paraguay and is under
Mr. Stroessner's protection.
In the hunt for Mengele, the U.S.
Army over the next few months will
study more than 300,000 documents
containing at least 1 million pages.
Darrell L. Peck, an Army lawyer,
said in a statement to U.S. District
Judge Thomas A. Flannery that
there are over 1,000 reels of poorly
indexed or unindexed microfilm
records from the post-World War II
years which conceivably contain
information on Mengele.
He said a special Army task force
created to aid the Justice Depart-
ment investigation also has begun
searching former Army records
now held by the National Archives.
After hearin arguments, Judge
Flannerv granted the government's
request to stay for four months t
proceedings in a lawsuit brought to
force the Armv to release more intel-
igence documents Pertaining to
Mengele.
Mengele was responsible for the
deaths of 400,000 Jews in the Nazi
concentration camp at Auschwitz.
Known as "The Angel of Death," he
decided which prisoners were sent
to the gas chamber and which he
would use in his experiments.
The concentration camp doctor
fled to South America at the end of
World War II and obtained Para-
guayan citizenship in 1959, which
was revoked in 1979 under interna-
tional pressure.
Mengele has not been definitely
sighted since he vanished in Para-
guay after the West German govern-
ment requested his extradition in
1962. It is not known for sure
whether he is still alive, but reports
repeatedly have surfaced placing
him in various parts of the world.
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