RED CROSS LINK TO MENGELE ALLEGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404200015-7
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 20, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
20 April 1985
Red Cross Link to Mengele Alleged
Given-Travel Papers After WWII, Wiesenthal Center Says
By JOHN KENDALL, Times Staff Writer
The long-sought accused Nazi
war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele
apparently used travel documents
issued by the International Red
Cross in Geneva to escape from
Europe after World War II, accord-
ing to the Simon Wiesenthal Cen-
ter for Holocaust Studies.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associ-
ate dean of the Los Angeles center,
said the Committee of the Interna-
tional Red Cross in Geneva has
provided U.S. authorities with in-
formation about a travel document
issued to a Helmut Gregor, an alias
used by Mengele.
Nothing more was immediately
known about the Gregor document,
but Cooper said he thinks that it
should provide investigators with
important leads on how Mengele
escaped, who may have helped him
and where he may be hiding today,
if he still is alive.
Neal Sher, who is in charge of
efforts by the U.S. Justice Depart-
ment's Office of Special Investiga-
tions to find Mengele, confirmed
that he has asked the International
Red Cross for information about
Mengele, but he declined to discuss
the Gregor file.
The Wiesenthal Center made a
similar request last month, but the
International Red Cross, which
provides travel documents for ref-
ugees, cited its policy of confidenti-
ality and advised the center that
details about the Gregor document
had been given to the U.S. govern-
ment.
According to Cooper, the name
Helmut Gregor is one of several
aliases used by Mengele in his
40-year flight from justice on
charges that he directed the deaths
of 400,000 inmates at the Au-
schwitz concentration camp and
conducted deadly pseudoscientific
experiments on inmates there. '
He said Mengele used the name
Gregor as an alias as early as 1949,
when some intelligence reports
suggest that the death camp doctor
traveled to Rome, secured travel
papers and embarked from Genoa
to Argentina. - , -- .. -
Documents made public earlier
this year by the U.S. Central
ntelli ence A enc reported that
Men e e use the name a mut
rigor- regori in 1954 when He
practiced medicine in Argentina
but identified imsel as Jose
engele when he obtained Para-
guayan citizenship in 1959. He was
known as enrique (Enrique)
Wollman when he purportedly
practiced medicine in Encarnacion,
Paraguay, in 1972.
Mengele would be 74 years old if
he is still living, as is suspected by
Hans-Eberhard Klein, the Frank-
furt, West Germany, senior prose-
cutor charged with - prosecuting
Mengele for war crimes under a
warrant issued for his arrest in
1959.
Klein recently told a radio inter-
viewer, according to United Press
International, that there is over-
whelming evidence that Mengele is
now living in Paraguay, despite
statements by Paraguayan Presi-
dent Alfredo Stroessner that Men-
gele is no longer there. The prose-
cutor said dozens of West Germans
have told his office of seeing Men-
gele in Paraguay.
Wherever Mengele may be, the
Wiesenthal Center hopes to find
him by reminding South American
newspaper readers that rewards
for his capture now total more than
$2 million. The center, which has
put up half of that reward,- is
planning a $40,000, monthlong ad-
vertising campaign in_ six South
American countries.
The advertisement, prepared by
a Miami agency, asks readers
whether they' have seen the man
shown in a photograph, Mengele.
The ad lists Mengele's crimes and
details the terms of the reward for
his capture.
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