GET MENGELE; GET THE KGB

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: February 21, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
21 February 1985
Get -Mengele; get the KGB
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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
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