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The Detroit Jewish News, 1983-03-18

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State Dept. to Probe Link Between U.S. and Klaus Barbie

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The Justice Department,
reversing an earlier posi-
tion, announced that it will
conduct "a comprehensive
investigation" into allega-
tions that Nazi war crimi-
nal Klaus Barbie, now in

custody in France, was em-
ployed by U.S. government
agencies after World War
II and helped by them to es-
cape from Europe.
The Justice Department's
reversa
l, reportedly under
strong pressure from Con-

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"Barbie's movements
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his expulsion from
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Allen also wrote that
"During the same period he
(Barbie) contracted work
with the CIA" and acted "at
the strategic • direction of a
post-World War II SS un-
derground, Die Spinne (The
Spider)" as a "consultant" to
right-wing Latin American
military dictatorships sup-
ported by the U.S.
Barbie's involvement
with the CIA was con-
firmed by Nazi-hunter
Serge Klarsfeld who
charged, in an article in
the Paris daily Le Monde,
that the CIA not only em-
ployed Barbie as a spe-
cial agent but enabled
him to flee to Latin
America by granting him
a "temporary travel
document" registered
under the name of Klaus
Altmann, the name under
which he illegally ob-
tained Bolivian citizen-
ship in 1952.
According to Klarsfeld,
the CIA document enabled
:Barbie to obtain an Interna-
tional Red Cross pass in
Geneva.
Although twice sentenced
to death in absentia by
French courts for the depor-
tation of French Jews and
the- murder of French resis-
tance leader Jean Moulin,
Barbie apparently visited
the United States on more
than one occasion after his
escape from Europe without
interference from U.S.
authorities.
Reports that he visited
New Orleans and Miami
under the alias Klaus
Altmann was said to be
supported by U.S. Immigra-
tion Service documents.
Last Nov. 11, Robert
Wilson, a self-admitted
international jewel thief
told ABC-TV News that
he knew Barbie in Bolivia
and that the Nazi "freely
confessed" his war
crimes and his involve-
ment with the CIA.
According to Wilson,
Barbie claimed he visited
New Orleans and San Fran-
cisco in the course of his
work for the CIA, travelling
on a Bolivian diplomatic
passport. The CIA refused
to comment at the time.
Nine Congressmen wrote
to President Reagan urging
him to initiate a special in-
vestigation of charges that
the U.S. government pro-
tected Nazi war criminals
after World War II, Barbie
in particular.
The letter was drafted by
Rep. William Lehman (D-
Fla.) and signed by seven
Democrats and two Repub-
lican Congressmen.
Attorney General
William French Smith
reportedly was reluctant

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to enter the case but
changed his mind after
receiving a "message"
from William Clark, the
President's National Se-
curity Adviser.
Justice
Department
sources said the investiga-
tion will be conducted by
Allan Ryan Jr., head of the
Department's Office of Spe-
cial Investigations (OSI).
Ryan has been responsi-
ble for the • successful pros-
ecution of Nazi 'war crimi-
nals living in the U.S. re-
sulting, several cases, of re-
vocation of citizenship and
the initiation of deportation
proceedings.
Barbie, who was turned
over to French authorities
last month after his expul-
sion from Bolivia, is await-
ing trial in Lyon on charges
of "crimes against human-
ity."

Jewish Reps
Lash Shultz

NEW YORK — Rep.
James Scheuer (D-N.Y.)
hosted an informal meeting
last week of 25 of the 39
Jewish members of the
House of Representatives
and Secretary of State
George Shultz and other
State Department officials.
The' Congressmen asked
why Israel had better rela-
tions with the Italian and
French peacekeeping forces
in Beirut than it did with
the U.S. Marines. One Con-
gressman said the group
made it clear that the Re-
agan Administration's
Mideast policy was not ac-
ceptable to the group.

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Official Denies
Linking Jordan
Arms to Peace

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger denied that the
U.S. has "informally" prom-
ised King Hussein of Jordan
sophisticated weapons if he
joins the Middle East peace
process as outlined in
President Reagan's Sept. 1
peace initiative.
"There is no way that
anybody can formally prom-
ise anything that requires
the approval of Congress,"
Weinberger said on the
CBS-TV "Face the Nation"
program. But he said the
U.S. has told Jordan "we
agree basically with the
idea that they do need more
modern weapons, they need
air defense weapons."
Secretary of State George
Shultz, in an interview with
The Washington Post pub-
lished said it was time for
Jordan to decide whether to
join the talks or not.

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