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

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2010
• Sequence Number: 109
• Publication Date: February 8, 1983
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NEW YORK TIMES
8 FEBRUARY 1983
The 65-year-old Dr. Dabringhaus said
`-Ex-Gestapo Official in L y hey working t t a civilian agent for
Y he was ordered to drive to Memminwgenn,,
; in western Germany, to pick up Is Linked to U. S. S. Intelligenceefrom hiding and take him to a
The Wayne state professor said ha
a had received a weekly By RALPH B.UMENT HAL report from Mr
.
With the return of Klaus Barbee to Barbra was born Barbee giving information an other
oru Oct. 25,1923 in Bad missing Nazis and other data and in re-
France to face charges for murders in Godesberg, near Bonn. He was a mem- turn had paid him $1,700 a month. Dr.
wartime France, new questions have her of the Hitler Youth and joined the Dabdrighaus said that later he was
been raised about the movements of the -SD, the secret service of the SS, the eo ignepned as an Army major and
onetime Gestapo chief of Lyons since Nazi elite force, in 1935 and the Nazi reassigned elsewhere. He said he had
the end of the war and about his possible .party in 1937. After the German mill never heard from Mr. Barbee again
links with American intelligence ages- tary drive into Western Dr. Dabringhaus said one of the most
ties. Europe he startling bits of information Mr. Barbee
served In the. Netherlands, --and in had provided concerned a ? pusrported
The French are preparing to retry the ,November iB42 he was made bead of the uranium mine near Aue in the Soviet oc.
69-year-old Mr. Barbee - he has al.'iGestapoDepartmentwV inLyons... cupation zone of Germany that indi-,
ready been sentenced to death in absen. Charges after the war accused him, sated that Soviet scientists might have
tin by a postwar military tribunal - -among other crimes, of having ordered ? been working on an atomic bomb.
and the questions concern the ability of :.the death of Resistance fighters, includ. ' He said he had known that Mr. Barbee
an accused Nazi war criminal to have ing a top leader, jean Moiulia; and in;- of been an SD officer but had learned
evaded French justice through appar volvement in the- arrest of 41 Jewish Committed the Oil from he was said
of
y of
Mr.,
ent ties to,theAmericans. children who were later sent- to the Barbie's teed ed pan one of .
` In -" ~ - a >,- comaniona. Kurt Mer+elc.
in reasingly detailed accounts Auschwitz death camp. - "I should have arrested hem,,' he
since Mr. Barbie's extradition Satur- After the war American authorities said. "But Iwastold towarkwith him.-
day. A Frenchman credited with trade. took Mr. Barbee into custody but : he
fag down the longUtae fugitive and a later disappeared, In 1971 people who
former American intelligence officer were tracMagdown Nazis found him in,
have asserted that Mr. Barbee was gym' when he. was living under the.
aided is his post World War II _ name Klaus Altmann. 'Be later slipped.
pe i across the border into Bolivia.
by American authorities. Aoooniing to?Serge Klarsfeld, a Paris
The accomts. maintain that rarer[-? lawyer whose father was Mad by the-
can ages Pr'o'ecred Mr Barbie from Nazis and who with his wife; Beata, was
French offidaMand paid him in return instrumental .:in fending 24.. Barbie,?
for fntormatlofi an hther'Naxis and for, mAmerican 3ateIligeooe-recurited Mr.
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aism emarge tate bere d with fearand anger and theprier- had stalenpj~e~welry is Kassel, West Ger.,
f 'a T-_.I_L "-.- __ reran. in 1948.
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says that every. Jewish -family in the ? .. French Records Cited
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The 6a" State Depe m tspates? . and his ownresearch and interviews,
' an. Alan Romberg, was asked about Mr. IOarsfeld said the Americans -had
the allegations Involving Mr. Barbee at i., hued Mr. Barbie u oderseverad false'
the regular news briefing yesterday ft'. Identities lire commandeered house in
Washington, and replied.Mat the de- StafterM. :burg and Mu.-
part=ant roc ely refused eommaat
ct mattes TYteCentral In-, , . Testiarogyina latertrlal, Mis:IQara.
.telligmea Agency.. which - had not, yet : fold wrote_in her lfTtrbool5 "Wherever
been established in the immediate post. They May- Bel indicated that Mr.
.waryears, Iefertbd q u s t e t o t h e P e n . RBarttle umania i o n is e igbt i fo - , a tagan. Officials -them said they were - Mr. Klarsfeld, in a telephone intr.
Among the questiom raised view Yesterday from Paris,; said his
by - records showed that French security of-
new accounts are these:,.'. - ticials met American resistance when.
Where did Mr. Barbie disappear to they tried to get Mr. Barbie to testify in
after the German surrender in 1945? a war crimes trial in 1948.
Was be assisted in his efforts to escape? + A corroborating account came yes-
If so, by whom? .Did American authors. terday from a university professor who
ties hide Mr. Barbee and did they block i said he had been an American intelli-
French efforts to bring him to trial? i v~ geace agent Barwh in paid and super
Accorciintt to German records. Mr. " The professor, Erhard Dabringhaus
of Wayne State University in Detroit,
said in an interview that he bad recog-
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