RECORDS SHOW NAZI VISITED U.S. 4 TIMES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100370074-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: March 17, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
17 March 1983
Records sU.S. 4 times I
WASHINGTON (AP) - Launching
it? investigation into the relations
between U.S. intelligence agents and
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the
Justice. Department on Tuesday re-
leased records showing that Barbie
entered the United States four times
i 1969-70 on an official Bolivian
Allan A. Ryan Jr., head of then
cjepartment's efforts to find and de-
port former Nazislfrom _the: U.S.;..
said the purpose of the investigation
would be to set. forth the facts of
any relationship between Barbie and
the U.S. government from 1946 on,
and as much as possible, release,
those to the public."
Atty.- Gen. William French'ISmith:
reversed himself Monday, under con-
gressional and White House pressure,
and agreed to order the investigas
tion.
h ARBIE. A GESTAPO leader in
France in World War, II, fled to
Bolivia in 1951. Bolivia sent him
back to France last month, and he is
awaiting trial there now. French
courts have convicted him twice of
war crimes in absentia. .
The Justice Department released
Immigration and Naturalization Ser-
vice records which showed that Bar-
bie entered the U.S. under the name
of Klaus Altmann at Miami on July -
5 and 29, 1969, and twice on Jan. 21,
1970. The records showed that he left
July 27, 1969, Jan. 21, 1970, and Feb.
8, 1970. , -
Ryan could not explain why the
records showed one more entry than
departure.
On the records Barbie acknowledg-
ed that he was born in Berlin on Oct.
'25, 1915. Two of the records indicated
that he was planning to stay in or,
had visited in New Orleans and San
Francis' o- -------
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