EX-US OFFICER SAW BARBIE QUESTIONED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000707240001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 12, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE BOSTON GLOBE
12 February 1983
Ex-US officer. saw
Barbie questioned
apart." Willms said. - '
From Wire Serrices
PITTSBURG. Calif. - A former
US counterintelligence officer says
he witnessed the interrogation of
an arrogant. taunting Klaus Bar-
bit by French investigators who
were hostile to the Gestapo chief
after World War IL
John Willms says he escorted
Barbie to three days of interroga-
tion by French agents in the spring
of 1946. and stood by. armed. to
prevent the French from killing the
man accused of torturing and kill-
ing resistance ) adur Jean Moulin
and thousands of other people. .
He said French officers tried to
get Barbie to reveal who betrayed '
Moulin, but Barbie wouldn't break.
They were ready to tear him
Barbie admitted he ordered the
execution of a group of nuns after
an arms cache was discovered ;fit
their Lyon convent
"The nuns were imprisoned:"
he said in the Interview. "I don't re-
rnember whether they were ==a-
ed. but it seems to me they we-
Yes. now I remember. they were ex-
ecuted."
Barbie said a number of women
resistance fighters were captured
and often tortured by men worlds
under his orders.
"The woman beld out well r
48 hours." he said of -a-radio ope-
for captured in a special Gestapo
operation, 'She never talkedat.ail.
Shed was brave and my menu
p.
-rd 'say the guy was taunting u
The Gestapo -~hkf-saki ? >Ie-fir
the French," Willms said of Barbie. sonally disposed cf the body:of-a-?
Safe in the custody of the US Army, other woman ighter.?shot after she
The felt so secure he would give killed a Gestapo offtee: in an -
ate:-them smart answers." : bush.i -"':..~ ?,?`
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tion. was expelled Feb. 5 ;fr+om.Do-..sand had r+eedred an order to cxp,. ,
livla. where he had bved since. ft -niie1hls opesabo::: be?aaid. -7,a(,,
and was flown to FianoeTor.`-.?deed her -daeition -And- then~llb
war.
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