MENGELE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404200028-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: March 6, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/06: CIA-RDP90
RIIII'i 5
6 March 1985
MENGELE
FRANKFURT, WEST GERMANY
STAT
West German investigators hunting Josef Mengele said today they would ask to
see U.S. intelligence reports which show the Nazi death camp doctor may have
been involved in a South American drugs ring.
We are interested in seeing these documents. They may be of significance to
the case," Frankfurt State Prosecutor Hans-Eberhard Klein told Reuters In
response to queries.
The Central Intelligence Agency--(_ CIA) documents were released in
Washington last week. They show that in 1979 the CIA asked other federal
agencies to investigate intelligence reports linking Mengele to a big drugs
trafficking operation.
Mengele, who would now be 73, is wanted by West Germany and Israel on charges
of taking part in the murder of 400,000 Jews in Auschwitz concentration camp,
where he conducted horrifying medical experiments on thousands of prisoners.
The Frankfurt prosecutor's office, which is responsible for Mengele's cast,
has offered a record $300,000 reward for his capture.
Mein said the office would ask U.S. investigators to make the dacume_s
available in the course of regular consultations.
Members of the U.S. Office of Special Investigations held talks with West
German prosecutors in Frankfurt early last week an ways of coordinating their
hunt for Mengele more closely.
According to sources quoted in the partially-censored CIA reports, Mengele
arrived in South America in 1951 and traveled extensive y before settling in
Paraguay in 1972. There he allegedly owned a farm under an alias and was
"heavily involved in narcotics traffic" the sources told the CIA.
Mengele obtained Paraguyan citizenship in 1959, but it was revoked 20 years
later and the Asuncion government has said he left the country in 1950.
Chancellor Helmut kohl, who will meet Paraguayan President Alfredo Strcessner
du ri g his working visit to West Germany in July, has pledged to urge the E'outh
American leader to cooperate in the hunt for Mengele.
klein said Frankfurter prosecutors had no firm clues to Mengele's present
whereabouts but noted that in the past "most leads pointed to Paraguay."
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