Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/06 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000404200024-7 USA TODAY ARTICLE APPEARED. 18 March, 1985 N Prok__s) Tr, __ ‘Mengele: Elusive for 40 years Documents, rewards oo spur a new interest By Gregory Katz ‘said Washington lawyer Martin Usa TooRY Mendetomns “We "want ‘tim ave fs importants te inl For 40 years he nas wan- Chapiet ea Bly 8e writen ered worgwice eluding inves. “"Nati hunters believe Gea Ak {gators bounty hunters adven- fredoStroesaner, rer of Pare turers Seen everywhere: and gay-sine eS protected New howhere, he® belleved to be fele for many years alive, bul may have been dead Paraguay was‘e oglal hid- ‘met Mengele — Nat Anger inne: German sie send josef Mengele — Nazi ‘eres a lage Gor of Death Ruschwate denn ar cy eng k welcomes amp dacon fendsh expert Nessater fea Menter accused of kiting "Paraguy. detest knows 100000 peopie. most of them Menges wnereabout. Jews — Line mon notorious ot But a New York lawyer re ie Hier men a large, searching Menge’ life says “and now, suddeny ine hunt highranting Perguayen coe heals up. tn recent weeks." hel Aland vor Bene re THA Senate Jusicary. sub members spending. weekencs ‘committee will hold hearings lounging by a pool with Men- on Mengele Tuesday. The gov- gele in Paraguay in 1960s. erament got interested in Men. “The lawyer, Gerald Pomer, feleaterine Simon Wiesenfal says Mengcle wasscenn rea Genter uncoveres oncesecret and Chien te pea Ib moni GiAdocumensitsaysprovetne "The purl @¢ Menge oy US. army knowingly freed tne US. juslce: Depusisest, Mengele froma prisoner camp General Accounting Oc nd ater Word War Axrmy invesgators topsecet. TS Anonymous donors added And sores of aaventare == $1umilion to the more than mast bounty hunter and free. 00000 in reward money. lance joumaliss ~ are hoping The West German govern. topick up Mengeie’s tall rent appecied fo te USh and terete plese and fungle of Tomer natonsforelpincap Sout Ameren tiring Mengele How fresh the all? ‘West Germany is investi- ‘Hundreds of sightings have galing wether the German been reported: tr bess Branch of Mengele'’ family is "Tuese people make ting Rive mone hime 8 singe eration at segetSeanbank acct" Bourassa enn WCanacian investigators be- tus @ former Justes. Depart gan checking (apereetor be ment amjes “sine a cobage Fsingthe alas Foseph Menke 1845) entered canada in 1802 Why allthis trenzy over an old man four decades rrnoved from nis crimes? “This man she utmateter- rors of the Western Word Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/06 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000404200024-7