Addendum to German Nationalist and Neo-Nazi Activities in Argentina

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00865R000300030001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 5, 1968
• Content Type: MFR

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5 April 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Addendum to German Nationalist and Neo-Nazi
Activities in Argentina
The sources used in the preparation of this
study were provided through CIA library reference
services and special procurement facilities of FI/RQM/
OIS. Although the requested coverage obviously was
very broad and a large number of sources were consulted,
three significant documents did not come to light until
a later time in connection with another study. These
documents contain information from interrogation reports
which materially alters the view of the relationship of
Hans Rudolf Leo IIARNISCH to the NSDAP and the SD in
Argentina given in the U.S. Department of State's "Blue
Book on Argentina", which was used as the basic reference
in preparing the summary on Iarnisch included in this
study. The interrogator concluded that Harnisch had
been deliberately over-rated as an intelligence figure
and ascribed a role as the head of an espionage organi-
zation which he did not in fact occupy. This was
accomplished through a series of fabrications by the
Argentine police which were prepared under the immediate
supervision of Juan D. PERON and Ludwig FREUDE with the
purpose of covering their own collusion with the German
Government, Auslandsorganization and SD, and their acts
involving of ial Argentine Government collusion with
Germany despite the nominal neutrality of the latter,
during World War II. The interrogation reports strength-
en and support the identification made in this study of
Ludwig Freude as the true head of the.Nazi stay-behind
organization in Argentina and as an intimate adviser of
Juan D. Peron. The documents also identify General
Pistarini as the eminence gris who laid the foundations
of the Freude-Peron relationship and arranged protection
for Freude from police investigation before a control
mechanism was set up for the protection of favored persons
through the newly-formed Coordination Federal as a special
section of the police organization.
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The revelations do not materially alter the
essential facts given in this summary regarding the
Iiellmuth case or the operation of a clandestine radio
by Utzinger. They tend to deny altogether that Harnisch
was a representative of Adolph Hitler in Argentina, while
explaining the slender basis of appearances out of which
this allegation was contrived. The pertinent references
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