SPECIFIC -TRACES ON KARL HEINZ EICHMANN

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00869858
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2023
• Case Number: F-2020-00953
• Publication Date: November 23, 1953

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EXEMPTIONS Section 3(b)
(2)(A) Privacy
(2)(8) Methods/Sources 7-0--
/ (2)(4) Foreign Relations (0
The following traces on Karl Heinz EICEMANN, Nazi war criminal
.were obtained for .us from SaidsXORTNr.R- wife.cf German ex-SS officer
Felim:ORTNa3R /see r byr: 21early in November 1953..
Altho-iigh none are FaCy5Z recerr than 1951, they are being forwarded to
Headquart fr-r possible background information.
the. 7inter of 1945-1946,. EICHMANN was a prisoner
in a U.. Fcu CF:Mr, at Rimini. Italy, together with former Gestapo
chief in Ro-:7.e, K.A.PFLE7; and the former Gestan chief in Milan, an
ex-4j,a1 (n.u,) That winter, both 7217;ENN and the ex-
Nav,!.1 offir r!ere t:.-ansferred to another ?ow camp and escaped,
or the 1.-Te senten^P rs47en KM-PI-Rd:1 1-Y7 the
Their esoane route led from Germany through Innsbruck to Rorio,
In Rozve 1Q-3 q-e7 n-ssers. money, and tickets
L.o ,no Syrian '"egation. Inc- ex-Naval officer arrived
in Sy5..e. 1948 12:1d became chief of Colonel HINAWI's /SHISaXKLIts
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:)reriPoese EIC HEARN arrived in Syria b-ei,=-em 1947 -
arrival, EiliCHMAIN disassociated himself with the
Ger7an mi_lit -y -.dvissors who h.ad been brourz.ht to Syria to rein fi,7ht
the Isl.aol1 and described himself as"Political Advisor to the
Syr!= C-ovT:rnent-' He T;as converted to Islam 10 1948. In\ 1951,
he to Clno :.nd contacted the ex-rand Hajj Amikal-HTISAYNI
in an eifpr, to obtain financial 11,.1p. This he ald not receve.
ETCHM4N. ,yab forced to leave Er-.ypt in 1951 as he had no permit to stay,
Mme, is unable to state br,sent whereabouts of EICHEANN.
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