CONGRESS TO PROBE ALLEGED BARBIE-US TIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404440133-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 133
• Publication Date: February 11, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BOSTON GLOBE
11 FEBRUARY 1983
Congress to probe alleged
Associated Press
WASIiINGTON -Senate and House intelli-
gence committees have begun looking nto al-
leged links between US Intelligence a~encies
and Klaus tiarbie, a cunvfcted Nazi war erimi-
' nal, officials on Capitol HIII said yesterday.
? ' ~ Justlr.e Department officials, meantime.
were weighing a recommendation that they
open their own-lnvest(gationt~into possible US
complicity !n Barbie's escape from Europe after
World War Il, according tci department scums'
who answered questions on corrdl4ion they: rlq~
be Identified.
Garble, a Gestapo chief known as "the'
Butcher of Lyon." wss returned to Franca last'
week from Bolivia. where he had lived as a fugi-
French authorities 'are preparing' toretry'
Barbfe, 69, on 'charges of crimes against hu-
manity. He was sentenced to death in absentia
by a military court. but the permissible time for.
carrying out the sentence has expired.
Barbie has been accused of responsibility, for'
the deaths of 4000 people and the deportation of
about 7500 others to Nazi concentration camps.
Yesterday, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-
N.Y.1. vice chairman of the intelligence Commit-
tee,noted that "since last spring, the select com-
mittee has been lnteres/ed in the question of
possible ties between former Na2i officials and
US intelligence agencies."
"Appropriate .inquiries have been made at
?. ;, - .~
.various "egericiea, '-lricludiijg mQst?.reoently in-
quiries about the activities clef K11ti's. Aarbte. The
select comriilttee wilf ;Ix piu'suhag'these inquir-.
?ies in 'the ~wee~ss ~~head.~Iulttyrithan?:eaid in a"
$tateriieiit relel~sed by hie~ofllca'::ti`':' : ~:';" .
~= .Michael J.;O'Ne~p;-chief..~o}tnee~~Of Xt(e House
-Intelligence'COmmittet: satd~when asked about ?
the Barbie ~ allegations:. 'SWe are'-loo&irig into
`them.'" He ~afd :he could ,np~'m~kc any further
~omment?. tiecause~. ob~mittee :was ~ in fihe
Midst of.'piecing toher";trifc~j~j~,iatiori~ on the
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