THE LAST NAZI REDOUBT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000402650001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 11, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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JUL 1 1 065 ?
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9iiie Wanted War Criminals Are Living ? -; ,..4, ,;.,,
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Openly n South. America...
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I, . ?. ?-, .; . .... ..whereabouts -.-are known etior--.? ' -THE ?"ST---A'TE .. :-.an-'d-. .local
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By JackB0ttan :,l -ii-when
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,? BUENOS AIRES ? (UPI) . ..the prosecutors. Nazi war
lice are generally uncon-
1 When ? Nazi Germany.' . ,
eel. r.. criminals arc relatively safe I corned about the presence of.
,I Nazis unless they are In dery
in South Amerlca and the re-
.? tv.lapsed 20 years lige, many of i. : ger or violate the law. ,Au-,.
? , cent 55-month extension of
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..? 0 its Influential officials fled to 1 ? West. Germany's 20-year sta.! thoritative? sources said Vet.
Ithe Chilean. -state police..
,-.- . -.-1 South America to escapes:the. tute of limitations on war'
quietly deported three Israeli.'
.., 1.A I biggest manhunt dn historyi: .. ini has little effect on
agents who entered the eoun.,
those who took refuge here.
1 s Most of them ?ari 'still here, this year in an Sp.!
The friendship that Argen-: try early
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parent effort to ? eapture or'i protected and relatively ..un-. Aina and Chile once tied with'
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.known In their new ccluir the Third Reich has evolv assassinate Rauff or some.:ed r
sympathy , other Nazi living there.
' t.. tries. ' . ' ? ' ' into a protective
,. t i . But on the other side of.
? - ?v ? ? Among them are ? at ,least , for Nazi refugees: West Ger- l
But
card, Brazilian police ar-
. p.. tout of. West :Germany's? -..many sought the? eittradition
. rested former Nazi counter-
war.uf both Rauff and Byline sev
i and Israel's ? most .wanted : feller Franz Bauer Ribka last'
?eral years ago. Chile refused
!, criminals: .for using. his counter..?
grounds that the =Use- March
7.. ?JyAite,r Rauff, SS geneldcnt felting skill for personal be
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r? d .t. . ' lion against Rauff?extermi. al who conceived an opera -, i
ed the mobile gas chambera 'i: f 97, 000 Jews?was. nefit in 33razil.,Ribka was as-,? s .nation o sedated ? ? with ? the Nazis',
,? . uolitical and not criminal in
; used dn the Jewish extermin- ?.. ? ferried Cicero spy ring, whicti.
nature. Argentina did . like-.
f. ation program. He resides ' ? ?
wise'. for- Bohne in another printed worthless dollars and.
: ! under his own name In Puer. ''?
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to Provenir, Chile. . .. precedent-setting case. ' ? ?Pounds for Use against.. the,
t. - .p 'Allies in . World War IL, ,,. ?
0 } ? i-Cts..4.-hartdh )3ohne, legal.' ISRAELI SDCRET agents I AUTHORITATIVE soOcei
. ,'adviser to e Nazis' "mercy , and independent groups of
(killing? program directed .. vengeance-minded Jews pre- I say- that at least 50,000Ger.,,,,
I. against crippled, elderly and ?? sent the only danger to for. I mans migrated to Argentina,i
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''.undesirable persons. He re- mer Nazis in South America. IBrazil, Chile and Paraguay"
l aides in Buenos Aires under.. - ? ? ----- -??? ? - ------; between 1945 and 1951. Mostli
Ili the name of Alfred Kurt'
.11 u_kger. ? .-':: ..-L--
k. ? Eduard Roschmand, for
it mer commandant of the Jew- ?
I mien agents fo d and?eap-. of them came with forged
tured .SS: Col.' Adolf /Etch-Yd.ocuments or easily Ohtaina.;
mann In Buenos Aires ..In'.1.1zole :Polish passports. ,Their?
1960 and he was tried and .' political and military back-,
'. ish ghetto at Riga, Latvia. He executed. ? ". ' ' . !'grounds were, not questioned..
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(resides in Buenos Aires un- ir A group that Identified it-,, They settled in. German,
). der the dame of Friedrich'. self as !"Those who shall nev;:b communities that dot ? the'
i?Wegener. . ,.?. er forget" tracked down 'a '1. four countries, received help
Y; ? Dr. Josef Mengele, chief lformcr ' Nazi party chief in C from the established .Ger.
tphysican at the Auschwitz j.Latvia,? Herbert Albert Cu- 'mans and went to work as.
concentration camp in pn. ?? kurs, who was operating ii... toolmakers, technicians,. Me-
..,.. ? !land, where he was known as7I. seaplane excursion business 1 chanics; farmers .and , bust.,
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.? ithe "Angel of Death." He re..,:l hi Sao Paulo, Brazil. TheyjI..nessmen? ' ?
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;sides in Paraguay under an'llured him to Montevideo, UP i! Some of the more skilled
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. .: jassumed name that apparent-. i.uguay, with a business offer !,' W e r e e mp lo ye d by ? the
? ., . ?ly is unknown to either Para?!.I lest February' and assassinat. rgovernments. Argentine dic-
guayan or West German all,.ed him. .? ... ...
... ? .. tator Juan. Peron welcomed
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:.?thoritlea. But highly ?authorl.:.1 H: . . Nevertheless, some ' Nazis, ',1' Nazi aircraft designer Kurt
1 tatty? sources confirm. .hisl such as Rauff, found it unne. !?, Tank, Luftwaffe Gen. Adolf
Vpresence there. ' . , . ,...:eessary to conceal their icien-:; Galland, ace fighter pilot UI.
f; ? ? ' ? ..- 'f. titles:, Raul'', 56, operates a. 'rich Rudel and bomber pilot
t.'. OTHER WANTED war mi.. fishing 'boat and lives 'alone ' 4Werner baumbach as advt.'
' minals are known to be' liv-' in a hilltop house at Puerto ;risers to tbe Argentine Air Ml'
I ing among the se'veratt thou-, .Pr 0 V e n ir.?Mengele; ?lived ..4 111StrY. ?..' *, ??? ? .. . ? . ,,
'sand former Nazis in South: openly in 'Argentina', Biagi (.;. Other.'.'N'azia -reeeli?ed. jobs
add Paraguay ,for years and1,..,in the;. Various flattens'. ar-
' 614 not change his agile Ain. ? mies' 'and. I 'police ; - forces,
America. Some believe that
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Hitler's last : deputy and
' band-picked 'successor, .Mar.;
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. Bormann, resides In Ar'-'1/440, ? ::;gentina. Although he was deg
'ielared legally ? dead in 1444
>West GerinanY, had' OffeiedA
. /$23 300 ? reward ''fae
;Xrnerie.S. theitiet-Pitii-esfl ?Na-77 '
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''xism particularly its anti-Se.A
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'.inlble ' aspects. ' Wilfred ? Von.
'Oven, former. secretary' ; to
Nag ? propaganda Alinisten!
'Joseph Goebbels,, edited ?C'
Pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic news',
paper In Buenos Aires In the
early 1950s. ? ?
. ? Among the already milita.',
.ristic, pro-Nazi ? Argentines
and Chileans, the Gernian.
Nazis found ready 1 followers.r .
Nee-Nazi ? groups developed.,
One of the first was ;the Ar')
gentine Ta_euara ? a secret,1,1
tintl-Semirr ,orist group,
organized In 1955 by a . Oer?Z
man Catholic priest, the Rm..)
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Ail, aften:PlOmarin*
..14a -jeall Among, these were former,. Julio Meinvielle. : ? ? . ?
SS and Gestapo.Offietti,
. ' ? '''''? . - '''''?'' ' '' ? led bY the 2ara i head
7-yearold eon of-.;.?
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? t.lf, THE A:. MAJOrtrr Yr, :,buril ? Adolf EichMann; Horst Adolf ,
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