A SECRET REPORT IS CIRCULATING INSIDE THE CIA THAT DR. JOSEF MENGELE, THE INFAMOUS NAZI ANGEL OF DEATH AT AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP, IS DEAD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
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STAT
STAT
A secret report is circulating inside the CIA that Dr. Josef
Mengele, the infamous Nazi "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz con-
centration camp, is dead. I sent my associate Lucette
Lagnado to Paraguay last month to find out, if she could,
whether the report is true.
In my April. letter, I recounted my 30-year search for the
medical monster. I told of witnesses who had seen him in
various parts of the world. Apparently he usually traveled
first-class under various identities, subsidized by his
wealthy Bavarian family. The Mengeles, who live in Gunzburg,
Germany, once operated a New Jersey company that sold farm
equipment made by the family firm. The U.S. operations were
directed by the war criminal's nephew, Dieter Mengele, who
made frequent trips to this country.
Underground sources told me that the CIA report on Josef
Mengele's death is premature, that it might even be deliber-
ate disinformation intended to protect Mengele from Nazi
hunters. These sources have reason to believe that he's
still very. much alive and hiding in Paraguay, under the pro-
tection of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner's fascist regime.
So I sent my reporter to Paraguay to search for clues to
Mengele's whereabouts, particularly evidence that he might be
protected by a Mennonite community that uses Mengele farm
equipment. The head of the Mennonite community protested
that they aren't protecting the war criminal.
Lagnado located the apartment hotel, now defunct, where he
once stayed. The former owners and employees denied that
Mengele had lived there. Yet a former tenant told Lagnado
that Mengele had been his neighbor and provided intimate
details about him. But the tenant hadn't seen Mengele lately.
Meanwhile, the evil doctor still casts his spell, dead or
alive. One Jewish shopkeeper refused to answer questions
about Mengele, saying: "Do you want me to lose my business?"
L`" AFFEAUD JACK ANDERSON'S WASHINGTON NEWSLETTER
-.-?L- December U date
Volume I, No. 11
STRICTLY PERSONAL
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