NAZI GERMANY'S 'ANGEL OF DEATH' IS STILL AT LARGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100130074-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: July 18, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
18 July 1984
. JAWXANDERSON
? sort in Switzerland. Still another cenaries. The former head of the Is-
Nazi Germany? S saw him in the south of France. raeli secret service, Issar Harel,
Apparently, he has traveled un- told Lagnado that, in his opinion,
`Angel of Death' der various identities, using forged Mengele's security system is so
passports. His favorite alias, I'm strong it would take a combat bri-
told, is "Gregory" or "Gregorovich." gade to penetrate it.
IS Still at Large His luxurious life style is financed For years, Mengele lived openly
by members of his family who live in Buenos Aires-his name in the
There is nothing that produces as in the Bavarian town of Gunzburg. telephone book-under the wing of
much exhilaration and all-around Recently, I sent my associate Lu- Argentine President Juan Peron. In
gratification for me as tracking cette Lagnado to Israel to seek out 1959, West Germany asked for
down a notorious war criminal and the surviving victims. They remem- Mengele's extradition. The Argen-
bringing him to justice. ber Mengele from Auschwitz as an tines stalled, claiming that their in-
Several years ago, I found Adolf exquisitely handsome, soft-spoken vestigation "disclosed no record" of
Cukers, a brutal Nazi overlord who man who loved to play German bal- Mengele's presence. The Germans
had butchered thousands of Jews in lads on an old-fashioned, hand- pro~idedhemore specifics, and
Latvia. He was living quietly on a cranked phonograph.
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lake shore in the Brazilian coun- According to reliable sources, he January, 1960.
tryside. has not lost his good looks, and his But because there was no extra-
Not long after I confronted him manners are still polished. He is dition treaty between Argentina
there and revealed his whereabouts now in his 70s. and Germany, the case had to be
to the world, his body was found in Meanwhile, he remains the submitted to the Argentine solicitor
the trunk of a car, with a note pin- world's most wanted fugitive, general. The foreign ministry didn't
ned to his jacket. The note said sim- sought by at least three govern- do this until June, 1960. By then, it
ply, "The Committee that Never ments and various private groups. was too late. A month earlier, Is-
Forgets." My sources believe he's under the raeli agents had kidnaped Adolf
But I failed to find the most no- protection of Paraguay's dictator, Eichmann, another Nazi war crim-
torious of the surviving Nazi war Alfredo Stroessner. At one point, a inal, on the streets of Buenos Aires.
criminals. The real object of my CIA document pinpointed his hide- Not wishing to risk similar "extra-
search was Dr. Josef Mengele, the out as the southern Paraguayan city dition" to Israel, Mengele skipped
"Angel of Death," who consigned an of Encarnacion, just across the to Paraguay.
estimated 2 million Jews to the gas Parana River from Argentina. The Paraguayans' official line,
chambers or the lingering horror of But I'm told he never stays long then and now, is that they don't
quack medical experiments at in one spot. He reportedly has holed know where Mengele is. Only a few
Auschwitz during World War II. up for brief periods with devout weeks ago, they told me they'd be
Over the years, I have continued Mennonites in a Paraguayan village happy to arrest Mengele if I'd tell
the search. I have spoken to wit- called Philadelphia and with fellow them exactly where to find him.
may oblige.
nesses who have seen him. One wit- expatriates in a Nazi colony called Some
bfuture lige. column, I'll
ness met him at the home of a Nazi Colonia Dignidad in Chile.
sympathizer in Venezuela. Another He may now be in a military zone, tell you about Mengele's U.S. con-
encountered Mengele at a ski re- protected by a small army of mer- nection.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/10: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100130074-9