JOSEF ((MENGELE))

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00871110
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2023
• Case Number: F-2020-00953
• Publication Date: March 5, 1985

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SUBJECT: JOSEF ((MENGELE))
REF: DIRECTOR NSN IVA
1. AS HQS IS AWARE THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES, ACCUSATIONS
AND SPECULATION - MUCH OF IT NONSENSE - HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
ABOUT JOSEPH MENGELE AND HIS WHEREABOUTS. AS TIME GOES BY
IT BECOMES INCREASINGLY CLEAR THAT THE QUEST FOR MENGELE
WILL NOT CEASE. REF IS BUT THE LATEST MANIFESTATION.
IF A SERIOUS, CONCERTED AND SYSTEMATIC EFFORT
IS MADE TO LOCALIZE HIM OR AT LEAST ASCERTAIN IF HE IS DEAD
OR ALIVE, eY WILL HAVE TO TRACK HIM
DOWN ON A wORLD-WIDE BASIS AND MANY MAN-MADE HOURS WILL
BE EXPENDED IN THE PROCESS.
2. TO BEGIN WITH, THE NATION WHICH THEORETICALLY HAS
PRIME INTEREST IN MENGELE IS ISRAEL (THE U.S. AS BEST CAN
BE DETERMINED, DOES NOT EVEN HAVE A COURT CASE PENDING -7
AGAINST HIM). HENCE, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT SRAELILOP-S
BE QUERIED AS TO: A) THEIR INTEREST IN MENGELE; AND 8)
WHAT THEIR FILES CONTAIN ON MENGELE. (RUMORS PERSIST
THAT THE ISRAELIS ATTEMPTED TO KIDNAP MENGELE MORE OR LESS
AT THE TIME OF THE ADOLF EICHMAN AFFAIR. HOWEVER, MENGELE'S REDOUBT,
NEAR THE VILLAGE OF HOHENAU IN PARAGUAY, WAS TOO WELL
PROTECTED.) IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO HAVE THIS OFFICIALLY
CONFIRMED UP nFNIED. a1/1/EL02.. SHOULD ALSO BE INSTRUCTED
TO QUERYC 0P-S JON WHAT THEIR FILES CONTAIN. IT IS WELL
KNOWN THAT THE MENGELE FAMILY IS EXTREMELY WELL OFF. WHAT
EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO QUERY THEM AS TO SUBJECT'S WHERE-
ABOUTS? (ANOTHER RUMOR HAS IT THAT A COVENANT WAS MADE
SUCH THAT A TRUSTED LAWYER WILL INFORM THE FAMILY IF/WHEN
SUBJECT DIES. THIS IS IMPORTANT SINCE CONTROL OF THE FAMILY
FORTUNE WOULD THEN PASS ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF
MENGELES.) IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE.
3. FROM A PARAGUAYAN PERSPECTIVE, IT IS QUITE CLEAR
THAT IF MENGELE REMAINS IN PARAGUAY HE IS EXTREMELY WELL
PROTECTED EITHER BY THE GOVERNMENT OR NAZI SYMPATHIZERS
(WHICH ABOUND) OR BOTH. IT TpLows THAT OVERT DEMANDS
WILL GET US NOWHERE. Ce1SA.A1 HAS ALREADY TASKED AND ASXED
ALL OF ITS ASSETS ABOUT MENbELE AND THE ANSWER IS THAT
MENGELE DID INDEED LIVE IN PARAGUAY - BUT NO LONGER. WE SHALL,
PER REF, ASK AGAIN. THE ANSWER WILL BE THE SAME.
4. WHAT IS NEEDED IS A PERSON OR PERSONS SYMPATHETIC
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TO THE NAZI CAUSE WHO CAN PENETRATE THE GROUPS WHO BEFRIENDED
AND ASSISTED MENGELE. CLEARLY THIS IS NO EASY TASK. THUS
FAR THEIR LIPS HAVE BEEN HERMETICALLY SEALED. SUFFICE IT TO
SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT A CLUE AS TO SUBJECT'S WHEREABOUTS OR
IF HE IS EVEN ALIVE.
5. THE ONLY CONTACT THAT THEL4A/a CURRENTLY HAS WHO
HAS ACTUALLY SEEN MENGELE'S REDOUBT IN HOHENAU AND WHO SEEMS
TO HAVE TAI.K.,"1 AT Lf..�4.7TH WITH PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM IS
IDEN,
IDEN.M ALSO VtRY WELL LoNNECitD 4Th nit RAr CUMMUNIIY
BOTH IN ASUNCION AND IN ENCARNACION (THE CITY CLOSEST TO
HOHENAU). UNFORTUNATELY, IDEN IS CLOSING OUT HIS
AND HAS TENTATIVE PLANS TO MOVE BACK TO,.
NtvLRTHELESS, WILL AGAIN QUERY IDEN AS TO WHO HE m1NWS
MIGHT PROVIDE INSIGHTS ON THOSE WHO MAY HAVE ACCESS TO
MENGELE'S PROTECTORS.
6. g-T-14/4,43 WISHES TO REITERATE (AND -L.Z.LI-S6- 3 is
SENDING A PARALLEL AND SIMILAR MESSAGE TO[u-J THAT
IF Le=iPT:l IS SERIOUS ABOUT TRACKING DOWN MENGELE, MORE
EFFolvi wL HAVE TO BE MADE INCLUDING WITH THE iwoCc�
MENTIONED. TO LIMIT EFFORTS TO ASUNCION ON TriE
h55.0hPlI0N THAT MENGELE IS ONLY IN PARAGUAY WOULD BE UN-
REALISTIC AND A LESS THAN SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO THE ENDEAVOR.
7. FILE: 201-994286. DECL OADR DRV ALL
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