EX-GESTAPO OFFICIAL IN LYONS IS LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201440005-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 8, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES
8 FEBRUARY 1983
The 65-year-old Dr. Dabringhaus said
be was working as a civilian agent for
`Ex-Gestapo Official in Lyons .;j
Army counterintelligence in 1948 when
he was Ordered to drive to Mernminnew
-is Linked to U.S. Intelligence
By RALPH B UMEN HAL-
isarme from hiding and take him to a'
secret house in Augsberg.
The Wayne State professor said be
.had received a weekly report from Mr.
Barbie giving information on other
missing Nazis and other data and in re?
turn had paid
Dabringhaus said that lata mouth. Dr.
er he was
cornmissiooed as an Army major and
reassigned elsewhere. He said he had
never heard from Mr. Barbie again.
Dr. Dabringhaus said one of the most
startling bits of information Mr. Barbie
had provided concerned a ? purported .
uranium mine near Aue inthe Soviet oc-:
cupation zone of Germany that indl
With the return of Klaus Barbie to Barbie was born on Oct. 25,1913, in Bad
F
rance CO face charges fd i Gdb
or murersnoeserg, near Bonn. He was a mem-
wartime France, new questions have ber of the Hitler Youth and joined the
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een ra
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about the movements of th
e
onetime Gestapo chief of Lyons since
the end of the warand abouthis possible
links with American intelligence agen -.
dies.
The French are preparing to retry the
'SD, the secret service of the SS, the
Nazi elite force, in 1935 and the Nazi
arty in 1937. After the German mill..
,tary drive into :Western Europe -he
sewed in the ? Netherlands,- and -in
~iovember.i942 hewas madeheadaf the
69-year-old Mr. Barbie - he has 41-' GestapoDepartment IV InLyc '? .
tia by a postwar mill tribunal ?.~ ~ - . f .. ......,
...A its ..........~_ ~ _ ~! ... - _ aII10.~ ?~ crimesa, Of having Ordered
an accused Naze war criminal to have
evaded French justice through apparv
eat ties to.theAmericaas.
In increasingly detailed accounts
since Mr. Barbie's extradition Satur-
day, a Frenchman credited with track.
mg down the longtime fugitive and a
former American intelligence officer
.have asserted that Mr. Barbie was
name Klaus Al---- He later sli
aided in his postWorld- War n escape I
across the border int Blii
oova.
byAmerricxyn authorities.. Accordingto'Serge }Oarsfeld, a Paris
The ?ac onmts. maintain that
linen- lawyer whose father was killed by the
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Kai1nnraiatioouti.other..NazWand'far V aerican',iate1Ifgmce-zecru1ted Mr.;
In Lyons, Klaus Barbie is rem=.:
dent of the region's. Jewish Federation
says that everq;Jewish4ami ~in the'
ctt-
uff
s
eyred at his hands
?
Tlye deputy State ~ apidces.
dated that- Soviet scientists might have
.. He said he had known that Mr. Barbie.
committed only from one of Mr..
Barbie's companions, Kurt Merck.
"I should have -arrested him
" he
,
said. "ButI was told toworkwith hi ,,
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ews,
+snan, Alan Romberg, was asked about r Mr. Klarsteld said the Americans had;
the allegations involving Mr. "Barbie at 1e installedMr.'Barble underseverai false
the regular news brief ng yesterday 1n , Identities in-a Commandeered house in
Stluftber? near aAirgsbeug and Mu-
Washtngtoi4 and t+eplied.,Mat the de. {
rr Ly1Ch. ~B" t ?.. r
PattrAent'so ly refund comment)
aafatei$gayoemaiters..3beCentralIn " Testlii onyihalatert fal,Mis Klaus
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established in the immediate post. Feld wrote'in her 1 They May Bet?= indicated 4tbat Mr.
.bwaareenyears, refers d queries to .the Pere; Te arbie had"`sought into~riatlon' on
,tax=.OfBeiNa-tbere:aaid they 'were Rumania fottheAmericans.
3ooidngfrttothemattet. ::. :: Mr. Klaafeldin a telephone inter
from Parisi! said ' his
Among the q~~ raised by the ; ~xms1bowed that French security of-
new accounts are these: ticials met American resistance when.
Where did Mr. Barbie disappear to they tried to.get Mr. Barbie to testify in
after the German surrender in 1945? a war crimes trial in 1918. . '
Was he assisted in his efforts to escape?, A corroborating account came yeas.
If so, by whom?.Did American autbori 1 terday from a university professor who
ties hide Mr. Barbie and did they block said he had been an American inteili-
Fr'each efforts to bring him to trial? t gence agent who. had paid and- super-
,According to German records. Mr. vised Mr. Barbie in 1946.
The professor, Erhard Dabringhaus
ofice t.. Wayne State University in Detroit,
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volvement in the' arrest of 41 Jewish
children who were later sent to the
Auschwitzdeath camp,
After the iwar American authorities
took'Mr. Barbie into custody but : he
later disappeared.- in 1971 people who.
were tracking'down Nazis found him in,
Peru, where he. was living .under the
feld said, it protected the former Nazi
from a West -German charge that he.
had stolen jewelryin Kassel, West Ger
anany, in 1946.
Fr ch;Recortls Cited . .
Citing "French :Government records,
and his OwW research and I
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