RED CROSS LINK TO MENGELE ALLEGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403220020-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 20, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

~ Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/03/08 :CIA-RDP90-009658000403220020-2
` LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Red Cross Link to Mengele Alleged
Given Travel Papers After W WII, VViesenthal Center Says
By JOHN KENDALL, Times Staf f Writer
The long-sought accused Nazi . Red Cross for information about this ear b the U.S. Central
war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele Mengele, but he declined to discuss ntelli ence A enc re orted that
en e e use t o name a mot
apparently used travel documents the Gregor file. regor- reiCOr~ m wen e
issued by the International Red The Wiesenthal Center made a ' racticed medicine in Ar entma
Cross in Geneva to escape from similar request last month, but the but identi ied imsel as Jose
Europe after World War II,accord- International Red Cross, which en~ele when he obtained Par-
ing to the Simon Wiesenthal Cen- provides travel documents for ref- ua an citizenshi in 1959. He was
ter for Holocaust Studies. ogees, cited its policy of confidenti- g
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associ- slily and advised the center that known ae enrique nrique)
ate dean of the Los Angeles center, ~ details about the Gregor document Wollman when he purportedly
said the Committee of the Interns- had been given to the U.S. govern- practiced medicine in Encarnacion,
Paraguay, in 1972.
tional Red Cross in Geneva has ment. Mengele would be 74 years old if
provided U.S. authorities with in- According to Cooper, the name he is still living, as is suspected by
formation about a travel document Helmut Gregor ie one of several Hans-Eberhard Klein, the Frank-
issued to a Helmut Gregor, an alias aliases used by Mengele in his fort, West Germany, senior prose-
usedbyMengele. 40-year flight from justice on tutor charged with -prosecuting
Nothing more was immediately charges that he directed the deaths . Mengele for war crimes under a
known about the Gregor document, of 400,000 inmates at the Au- warrant issued for his arrest in
but Cooper said he thinks that it - schwitz concen yapu'on camp and .1959...
should provide investigators with conducted deadl seudoscientific Klein recently told a radio inter-
important leads on how `Mengele experiments on inmates there. viewer, according to United Press
escaped, who may have helped him He said Mengele used the name International, that there is over-
and where he may be hiding today, Gregor as an alias as early as 1949, whelming evidence that Mengele is
if he still is alive. when some intelligence reports -now living in Paraguay,' despite
Neal Sher, who is in charge of suggest that the death camp doctor statements by Paraguayan Presi-
efforts by the U.S. Justice Depart- ~ traveled to Rome, secured travel dent Alfredo Stroessner that Men-
- ment's Office of Special Investiga- papers and embarked from Genoa gele is no longer.there. The prose-
Lions to find Mengele, confirmed ~ to Argentina. ~ tutor said dozens of West Germans
that lie has asked the International Documents made public earliera. ~ have told his office of seeing Men-
?~ Wherever Mengele may. oe, the
Wiesenthal Center hopes to find
him by`reminding South American
newspaper ~ readers that rewards
~~ for his capture now total more than
$2 million. The center, -which has
put up half of ~ that reward; is
planning a E40,000, monthlong ad-
vertising campaign, in~ six.. South
~ American countries:: ~ "= ~ '
' 'The advertisement, ,prepared `by_
f
I a Miami agency,;asks readers
whether they'haye seenahe man`
shown in a photograph; ;Mengele:-
The ad lists Mengele's crimes and.
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/03/08 :CIA-RDP90-009658000403220020-2