EX-GESTAPO OFFICIAL IN LYONS IS LINKED TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: February 8, 1983
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NEW YORK TIMES
8 FEBRUARY 1983
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~' ~ The 65?year-cld Dr. Dabringhaus said
II he was working as a civilian agent for
Ex-Gres `a ape Of ficial in Lyons
Y Arm counterintelligence in 1968 when
Is Linked to U. S. Intelli , In he was ordered to drive M
~~ uu western Germany, to o pick up `
pence Barbee from hidine and ukP hl" ?.... I
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IJY RALPH BLUMENIHAL - had received a weekly- - . sa
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France to face charges for murders is Godes ? 194, in Bad missing Nazis and other data and in re.
wartime France, new questions have her of the Hitler YouthHand joined the turn had paid him Shat a month. D was
been raised ~~ the movements of the !'SD, the secret service of the SS the comm""'oned as an Army major and
onetime Gestapo chief of Lyons since Nazi elite force, In 1435 and the Nazi reassigned elsewhere. Be said he had
the end of the war and about his possible never heard from Mr.
links with AmericasY. After the German mile-- Barbee again.
tary drive into western Dr. Dab
~. ce agese. ringhaus said one of the most
served in the. N Europe he sMnling bits of information Mr. Warble
The French are preparing --and .in had
Preparing to retry the ~tavember.19j bs was made bead of the uranium min aid a Pied
Y~.old Mr. Barbee - he has al.. near Aue in the Soviet oa
poDepartmentIVinLyon&. cupation zone of German +
re ~bcea sentenced to death in absen. Charges after the ww accused him,.. cated that Soviet scientistsy might indx a Postwar military tribunal ..'among other crimes, of been ight havee
v>ng ordered working -oa an atomic bomb.
an accus Nazi w rcem the ability of ..the death of_ Resistance - - - -rs includ_ ' He said he had known that Mr. Barbee
criminal to have hz
a i had b
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Barbie giving information on oth
with the return of Klaus Barbee t
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op ender, Jean Iviot~, and in= an SD officer but had learned
evaded French justice
j tbmugh appar. volvement in the-arrest of 41 Jewish of'tip atrocities he was said to have
eat ties to.tbeAmericeas. Children who were later neat to the committed only from one. of Mr..
In'~gly detailed. accounts Auschwitz death cam ? t :-; - Barbie's companions: Kurt Merck.
since Mr. Barbie's extradition Satnr. After the `war Americana "I should have -arrested him,? he
day, a Frenchman credited with track. took' Mr. Barbee into utboritie's said. But I was told to work with him.,,
fag down the longtime fugitive and a later In custody but he 1971 People who.
former
thavi American intelligence offi were tracking-down Nazis found him in asserted that Mr. Bartle was Peru, where be. was living under the.
aided in his post World-War II escapell name the s AlmatoB Be later slipped-
.: byAmerican authorities. livia.
The aeoouunts maintain that 'Ame!'i: AocorD$ tO SeiP IUarsfeld. a Paris
lawyer whose father was killed by the'
'COM its PrAc fed Mr-Barbee f:'can Nazis and who with his
FYanch offidaR and Faid him In
return ~hzstrumeatal . fa 8ndtg h' Be. 'was
' tiofan.otherNazt9and'for' Jmerican'.is Bye.;
-3ateltigeace inpormatIOn.: =from' the; ie before :3i& idr. flats':
,Soviet zone oloccupied GerthanY feld said, It protected the former Nazi:
In Lyons, Klaus Barbie, is remem= from a west -German charge that be,
ber+ed with fearasd sager and the prise- m stolen jewelry in Kassel. West Ger ,:
dent of the regions Jewish Federati on any, in 1946.
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The deputy state er srii and his awn y ?Goverament records
man,,Alas Romberg, wasasked about Mr. HIarseld said the Americans ,
the alle$atio s g Mr. Barbee at it installed Mr. Barbie underseveral false'
the gularnews brletmg yesterday by,`; identtties in=n commandeered
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and leplied.Meant the d l_Stadtbergce; near and a in
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?x1y i eSused
an
IntenIgence
Central Ia=' estimoatyfaa iaterU14-Mrs; Mam
been matters..3he ?
uB~e
"Agency,- Mich hid not..yef reed ~9rote_in ber187?~bo 4%
he
the Tary. May' Bel't-indicated~that' Mr.
esrsrYeara- r~eferred-queries to he p . Barbee `had"saarght infoima an
;tagon.Officials there';said they'
Rumania fartheAmerk ns.:,.
were .
'?.lookthg into tbemattar,..--.:..' Mr. Kiarsfeld, : in a telephc a }aver-
Among the .questions raised view yesterday from Paris,: said ,his
by the ? records showedthat French
n here did Mr these: ; : ' iiciais met American resistance when
after the German Barbie- disappear to they tried to get Mr. Barbee to testify. is
surrender in 1945? a war crimes trial in IN&
Was be assisted In his efforts to escape?. + A corroborating account came ye,
If so, by Whom? -Did American author,. I terday from a tmiversity professor who
ties hide Mr. Barbee and did they block ; said he bad been an American intelil- . '
French efforts to bring him to trial? gence agent Who bad paid nod' super.
According to German records. Mr.-, vised Mr. Barbie In 1948.
The professor. Erhard Dabringiaus
of Wayne State University in Detroit,
said in an interview that he had recog-
nized Mr. Barbie last mt?~?knnii ?,.,.,,
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