GET MENGELE; GET THE KGB

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CIA-RDP90-00552R000404200044-5
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July 6, 2010
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February 21, 1985
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STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/06: CIA-RDP90-00 ARTICLE APPEARED 0F1 PtiEF -7 - A WASHINGTON TIMES 21 February 1985 Get -Mengele; get the KGB STAT Etymology has been unfair to the Marquis forgiven, if they can be established through de Sade, the '19th century Frenchman who due process. ,:--r represented a kind of .pluperfect cruelty to Therein, the rub. The OSI seems content other human beings. For sadism, please sub- to follow normal immigration procedures, stitute.mengelism, after. Josef Mengele, the deporting the hapless suspects for trial in mad doctor of Auschwitz. Eastern Bloc countries where. due process is Dn Mengele; who practiced his torturous unheard of. What's more, accordin to Baltic-. genetic experiments on any sets of twins American groups investigations often whose misfortune it was to be cattle-prodded are conducted in concert with Sov, t irf - _ i- ntohis death camp, has eluded capture for-coals; includsng KGB oDeratlvesforwhom an- .40.years-Trom.Portugal to Para guay..Men- accusation is s onymous with guilt. ;gele sightings have been recorded. At last, v the KGB's sudden. interest in Nazi the civilized -.world' seems serious about ' war ,criminals? The B tic-Americans, w o bringing 'Dr''Mengele to justice. 'Ib be have made. themselves a headache for the present at his hanging would be to shout; Hip. OSI, theorize that the Soviets can make pro- -pagan da gains over the growingly restive Hooray? The civilized world takes satis- Balticstates by demonstrating Nazi collabo. faction from the pending prosecution of such ration: In addition, preoccupation with 40- -a transcendent ogre as Auschwitz's "angel of.: year-old :atrocities may distract attention death," if he can be apprehended before he from the Soviets' continuing enormities. The dies-unassisted. Granting the 'propriety. of war-crimes issue also drives still deeper the the get-Mengele mobilization, the renewed wedge-,between the American Jewish con. Nazi hunt nevertheless raises serious ques- muruty and Baltic-Ameri cans, the unison of tions, both jurisdictional and moral. whose anti-Sovietism is powerful indeed. The Justice Department's Office of Spe- with If the Juce the b irs of Stalin, this is a ring judicial tray- cial Investigations, mandated by then-Rep. esty.Hitler, after all, learned all about death Elizabeth Holtzman 's 1979 legislation,-has camps from Stalin, one of whose pupils was cast a net nationwide for other Nazi -war -Josef- Mengele. Attorney General William { criminals who, in the immediate postwar French Smith has added Dr. Mengele to the years, fraudulently slipped past U.S. immi- -.most-wanted list, which .is fair enough. One gration . officials. Although many of these f Edwin Meese's first acts should be to people have since lived productive lives, no investigate the OSI-KGB connection an one will argue that their crimes should be -exiilain it Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/06: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404200044-5