CIA PAPERS SAY MENGELE A DRUG DEALER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100120045-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: February 27, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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USA TODAY
27 February 1985
their arrest.
Mengele escape in 1979 after
papers. .
say Mengele
a dhig dealer
By Gregory Katz
USA TODAY. ;:.
WASHINGTON - Nazi war
criminal Josef Mengele has
been an international drug
dealer Protected by the dicta-
tor of Paraguay, declassified
CIA documents released ues-
day indicate. : .
Sens. Arlen Specter, R -Pa.,
and Alfonse .D'Amato, R-N.Y.,
who released the. documents,
accused the Drug Enforce-
ment Administration of letting
drug .dealers . associated ' with
They identified the dealers
as "Becker" and "Morelli."
"We don't know their first
names or. their nationalities,".
D'Amato..said, but ."they
walked away because the pa-
perwork was messed up during
a transfer." DEA and U.S. Mar-
shals Service officials denied
the account .
The 28. pages of documents
Nazi war criminal narrowly es-
caped being poisoned in his
Lyon, France, prison 'cell.
.Klaus Barbie, known as the
"Butcher of Lyon," was given
an acid substance instead of
medicine, but he spat it out
contain new information about
Mengele, the Auschwitz'Ange
of Death" char ed with-mur-
dering 400,000 'Jews - and.
"show that the CIA has not
been diligent in pursuing si
icant ?leads," Specter said..-
.The documents- contain- a
:1974-report that Israeli agents
beat to death a German soldier
in Paraguay.who they thought
was Mengele, and that Men-
gele has had plastic surgery.
Meanwhile, another accused
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