BARBIE-AMERICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140048-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: February 10, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Barbie-America
REUTERS
10 FEBRUARY 1983
A'congressional investigation into Nazi war criminals in the United States
may focus an whether American officials have lied and covered up information
about them, a member of the investigation panel said today.
The case of Nazi Klaus Barbie -- the "Butcher of Lyons" -- has spurred
-several new congressional probes into charges that war criminals are living,
secret lives in the United' States, and perhaps had been aided by U.S.
intelligence agencies.
Si?ntilar charges have surfaced for over 30 years that perhaps thousands of the
soe.6.00,000 refugees admitted here soon after World War II were either Nazis or
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