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Hate onTrialThe CaseAgainst Klaus Barbie

w as thrown o u t o f t h e c o u n t r y to (ace

charges fo r war crimes in Prance. H istrial is tentatively set to begin at Ih eend o f t h i s m o n t h .

B ut there is m u c h m o r e t o t h e storyof Klaus Barbie and h is neo-Nazi army,a story so incredible it seems l i f t e dw h o le f rom th e most i m a g i na t i v epaperback thr i l ler . It's al l t r u e , however,

i n c l u d i n g w h a t m a y b e Ih e most unbe-

l i evable fact o f all: B a r b i e , t h e i n f a m o u sNazi war criminal, was an agent oi

Am e r i ca n i n te l l i ge n ce .

The story begins in wartime

France, where Barbie, an up-

and-coming Gestapo opera-

t ive , has been assigned (helask of rooting out the French

Resistance Movement in Ihe ci ty ofLyons . Barbie set about the task wi t h a

B y Ernest Volkman

The people o f Santa Cr u z ,a small ju ng le t o w n i nBol iv ia about an hour's

f l i g h t f rom th e capi ta l ci -ty of La Paz, used tokeep a wide berth fromth e Clu b Bavaria. A n dn o wonder: Each n i g h t

a motley crew o f Bo l iv i a n an d E u r o -pean neo-Nazi t hu g s , al l armed to th et e e t h , relaxed there after a hard day's

w o r k , carousing a n d d r i n k i n g un t i l th ewee hours.

The work o f these neo-Nazis w asoverseeing t h e world 's largest cocaine

t r a f f i c k i n g business. They were sw i m -

m i n g in money, th e result o f thousands

of A m er i c a ns s no r t i ng t he f i ne white

powder they flew out o f B o l i v i a by thep la n e lo a d .

A n d Ih e money provided by the

A m er i c a n snorters n o t only supported

t h i s smal l army o f thugs, b u t also

f inanced it s plan to take over th e whole

c o u n t r y an d t u r n i t into something o f aFo u r t h R e ich . T h e money also made ar i ch m a n o u t ol th e fellow who was t hebrains b e h i n d all this — Klaus B a r b ie ,fo rmer ly o f the Gestapo, an d among

th e most wanted Nazi w a r c r i m i n a l s .T he C l u b Bavar ia is gone now,

de s t r o y e d last year by a new demo-

cra t ic government in Bo l iv ia , whichalso scat tered the t hu g s t o t he four

w i n d s . A n d B a r b i e , th e mastermind.

Despite his crimes,Barbie was hired by

U J S . intelligenceat a monthly salary

o f $1,700. _

rulhlessness t h a t was ferocious, evenby Nazi standards: Acco r d i n g to

charges liled later by the FrenchG o v e r n m e n t , Barbie was personally

responsible fo r over 11,000 arrests and

4,000 murders. His victims included

Jean M o u l i n , head of Resistance forcesin all of France, whom Barbie tortured

to death. Barbie also rounded up Jews

for deportation to the gas chambers o fA u s c hw i tz , i nc lu d i n g a group of several

hundred young Jewish children, whom

he took out of school one morning and

shipped otf to be exterminated.

F o r hi s gruesome efforts, which in -c lu de d hanging suspected Resistancesupporters f rom lamp posts, Barbie w aspromoted to the r ank of captain in the

Gestapo. H is superiors noted h is "par-

t icular t a l en t f o r c le a n i n g o u t hostile

organizations." The people of Lyons,

howev er , have other descriptions of the

m an who was known as a b ru t a l sadist

and ki l ler . Lisa Leservre, now an

82-year-old widow, remembers Bar-

bie's office festooned with clubs an dw h i p s . She was permanently disabled

after being t o r t u red by Barbie fo r nine

days; she had been arrested by theGestapo fo r running messages to Resis-

t a n c e leaders a n d then refused to t a l k ."H e was n o t su b t le , " she recalls. "He

w o u ld just keep beating y o u with th ec lu b an d asking th e same qu e s t i o n ,over and over. When you passed out,

he stopped. When you woke up, he

started again." Other v i c t i m s recal l Bar-bi e si t t ing with h is mistress on h is lap,

f o n d l i n g h e r w h i l e m e n were b ru t a l l yt o r t u red .

W i t h th e liberationo f France in 1944,

Barbie became a wanted man. TheF r e n ch placed hi s name o n a list o f"most wanted" Nazi w ar criminals an dsearched for him everywhere, deter-m ined to p u t him on t r ia l . B u t Barbie,

aided by Nazi f r iends, h ad gone i n t oh i d i n g in G e r m a n y . And i t was t h e r e

French Resistance leader Jean M oulin wa stortured to death by Barbie.

t h a t American intelligence made it sfirst contact with him .

The co n ta c t w as ini t i a ted by the U.S.

Army's Counterintelligence Corps

(C.I.C.), one of the f o r e r u n n e r s to theC.I.A., o p e r a t i n g i n Germany. Then

responsible fo r supplying intelligence

on Soviet forces to the east, the C.I.C.needed i n f o r m a t i o n , an d needed it fast.U s agents quickly discovered that al lover Germany t h e r e were dozens o fformer SS and Gestapo "experts" on

the Soviet Union who had spent thew ar years rooting out C o m m u n i s tagents a n d becoming fami l iar wi t hSoviet tactics. Additionally, theAmericans had a h i gh ly secret plan toform a g u er r i l l a resistance organiza t ion— mostly staffed with former Nazis —

to fight behind th e lines aga ins t IheRu s s i a ns in the event of an armed

takeover by the Soviet Union. (Soviet

forces ha d rolled over Ea s te r n Europe

and th ere was no guarantee 111 at they

w o u ld stop at any Western border.)

Despite hi s c r i m i na l past, B a r b ie w asenrol led in American intelligence. Itwas an easy recruitment since Barbie

really had l i t t l e choice. "We'd spend alo t of h o u V s i n t e r v i ew i ng them," saysf o rme r C.I.C. agent Ralph Farris about

th e Nazi w ar c r i m i na l s t ha t American

in te l l igence sought for use as agents. "I f4 F A M I L Y W E E K L Y . I U K F . 12 • isas



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Government, which began lo convertdrug smuggling into Ihe national in-dustry in Ihe mid- lo late 70's, Barbie

led an e f fo r t by Ihe secret police lore o rgan i ze Ih e d r u g t r a d e , in effect na -t i onal iz ing it . Small produce rs we red r i v e n out , and Ihe business was con-ce n t ra t e d in lo several large o p e r a t i o n s

al l overseen by Ihe Bol iv ian mili ta ry,which prov ide d t he light planes used (osmuggle t he cocaine in to t he Uni t edStales.

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business, and Ihe task ol e n f o r c e m e n t— keeping greedy pa r t i c ipan t s f r o mone another's t h r oa t s , squeezing o utIh e smal l - t ime dealers, p ro t ec t ing t het r a f f i c an d d i m m i n g t he gr o w in gpoli t ica l pro t e s t w i t h i n t he coun t ry o v e rthe odious i n t e rna t i ona l r epu t a t i onBol iv ia had gained — was beyond Ihecapabili ties of the'secret police . So Bar-

bie set about r e c ru i t i ng and organizinga pa ram i l it a ry e n fo rce me n t squad. A c-co rd ing t o in te l l igence reports, Bar b ierecrui ted not only in Boliv ia , bvrt alsot h r o u g h o u t t h e w o r l d , seeking thet oughe s t cu t t h roa t s he cou ld f i nd .

In Pa raguay he f ound Joach imFiehelkorn, a deserter f r o m the WestG e r m a n A r m y and r igh t-wing fana t icwho was in t r o u b l e because his bestf r i end ha d died d u r i n g a f r iendly gameo f Russian roule t te . In Spain he f o u n dJacques LeCterc, a f o r m e r t e rr o r i st w i th

Ih e Secret A r m y . Ih e r igh t-wing Frenchgroup lha t tried to assassinate Char le sde Gaulle . In Peru he f o un d f o r m e rNazi S3 ki l l er Han s Sel l feld t ( w h o wa skilled in 1981 during an a rgume n t withhis comrades).

F rom e v e ry po in t on Ihe compass,Barbie recrui ted such t hugs , inc ludingyoung Ge rman Fascists, I ta l ian r ight-wing ext remists, f o r m e r Rhodesian sol-diers and Bo liv ian r igh t -wing fanatics.By 1978 t h i s gang, known as the

Fiances o f De a th , had g rown i n t o a

force of over 6,000 men. Its non-Bolivi-an me mbe rs wore Nazi SS u n i f o r m san d toasted each othe r a l Ihe ClubBavaria in Sanla Cniz with shouts o f"I le i l Hi t le r !"

Accord ing to reports ol the U.S . DrugEnforcement Agency, by the lale 70'sIhe Bo liv ian cocaine o pera t ion had be-come a smoo th ly r u n n i n g n a t i o n a l in -dust r y tha t produced a f loo d of cocainefo r t h e Un i te d States^ Each member o f

the Fiancesol Death was paid $5,000 a

m o n t h by Roberto Suarez, the top Boli-v ian narcotics dealer.Barbie , however, had even bigger

plans in m i n d : He suggested at onepo in t lha t Santa Cruz be t u r n e d i n t o a"while center" where "Aryan re fugees"f r o m al l o v e r th e world would se l l le .Clearly, Barbie had visions of a F o u r t hReich, and his schemes led to un-bounde d a r r ogance . Some years ago.he a t t e nde d a d ip loma t i c reception f o rthe West German Ambassador. WhenIh e Ambassador made a loast to the

prosperi ty o f West Germany, Barbiesuddenly yelled out, "Heil Hitler!" Em -barrassed, the West Germans fo rc ib lyr e mov e d Ba rb i e f r o m the scene, as hescreamed. "Damned ambassador! Iwas an officer o f t he Gestapo! Whe nIh e pa r ty rises again,-I am going to sei -lle some accounts wi th you!"

Such behavior might hav e appa l l e dthe West Germ ans, but i l was a sour ceo f some amuse me n t t o Barbie's f r iends ,th e m o s t i m p o r t a n t o f w h o m , af te rBanzer, was Luis Arce Gomez, Ihe Boli-

v ian Minis ter o l I n te r i o r who wask n o w n m o r e p o p u l a r l y as Ihe Minis te r

6 F A K I L V W E E K L Y • J U K E



they d i d n ' t w a n t lo talk to us, al l wehad to do was say. The F r e n c h w o u l dl ike lo ta lk to you' or, The Russiansw o u l d l ike to ta lk to you.' They w e r eglad to be in Amer ican hands."

Barbie especially w as gra te ful fo rA m e r i c a n protect ion. Whi le th e Frenchwere searching all over Europe (o rh i m , he w a s safely ensconced u n d e r anassumed name in a house in G e r m a n yprovided by t he C.I.C. , working f o rAmer ican in te l l igence at a salary' of$ 1,700 a m o n t h . Fo r t h a t salary. Barbieadvised t h e A m e r i c a n s o n h o w t o u n -cover smal l groups of C o m m u n i s t s . H ealso managed to secure a smal l sampleof u r a n i u m f rom a m i n e in East Ger-m a n y — an i m po r t a n t piece ofe v i d e n c e t h a t th e Sovie t Union ha d su f-f i c i en t u r a n i u m s u ppl i e s to cons t ruc t an

of th e reach of French j us t i ce . F r e n c hat tempts to ge t any cooperat ion f romt h e A m e r i c a n s were rebuf fed.

B ui it w as becom i ng dear to theA m e r i c a n s tha t Barbie ha d turned in toa l iabil i ty . A s U.S. agents were to learnto t h e i r horror la ter , al l th e w h i l e B a r b iew as w o r k i n g f o r A m e r i c a n i n te l l igence ,he w a s also r u n n i n g a b l a c k m a r ke tan d thef t operation. The f ina l s t r a wwas a jewelry-store h o l d u p d u r i n gwhich wi tnesses c lear ly iden t i f ied Bar-bi e as one o f the robbers . Germanpolice were blocked by C.I.C. agents

w h e n Ihey t r ied to a r rest Barbie ,a l t h o u g h the m issing jewels were quie t -ly r e t u r n e d la ter by an A m e r i c a n a g e n t .

Barbie had become too h o t , a prob-le m worsened by cont inued French in -terest i n hi s whereabouts. (At one

Barbie in La Pa z in 1982 with a bodyguard provided by Bolium's Interior Ministry.

atomic bomb.

"I should have ar rested h im," says

E r h a r d Da b r i n g h a u s , al that t i m e aC.I.C. agent (he is now a professor at

Wayne Sta le U n i v e r s i t y in M i c h i g a n ) ,about Barbie. "But I was told lo workw i t h h i m . " Da b r i n g h a u s also revealedin in terviews fo l lowing Barbie's ex-t rad i t ion t h a t the Amer icans protecled

Barbie when th e F r e n c h f ina l l y l e a r n e din 1950 that th e ex-Gestapo chief w ash i d i n g i n Germany. A newly un coveredFrench in te l l ig ence repor t f rom tha tperiod shows the French were enraged

when they uncovered evidence tha tBarbie h ad become a n A m e r i c a n i n -t e l l i gence agent a n d w a s there fore o ut

p o i n t , concerned tha t French agentsm i g h t ki d n a p B a r b i e a n d t a ke h imback to France fo r trial. Amer icana g e n t s discussed th e i d e a of k i l l i n g hi m

r a t h e r t h a n le t t ing the French seizehim. According to ex-C.I.C. agent Gene

B r a m e l o( Centervi l le . Ohio , whoserevela t ions were f i r s t c o n t a i n e d i n t h eDaylon Daily News early this year, the

A m e r i c a n s drew s t raws to d e t e r m i n ew ho would shoo! Barbie . )

tn late 1951, Barbie suddenly disap-peared. F,quipped w i t h a set of forgecpapers i n the n a m e of K l a u s A l l m a n nhe, his wife and yo u n g son reappeared

la te r t h a t year in Genoa, Italy, wherethey sailed aboard an ocean l i n e r to

\'ru. The papers , provided by Ameri-can in te l l ig ence as a means of g e t t i n grid of an embarrassing problem (mak-n g h i m disappear w a s easier than k i l l -

ng h im), were designed to move Bar -bi e ou t of Europe an d rese t t le him inSouth Amer ica w her e , i t was believed,he w hole B arbie s tory w ould e v e n t u a l -l y be forgo t ten . W h a t n o o n e realized

was tha t the most amazing chapter in[h e story w as about to begin .

arbie and hi s f a m i l y ar r ivedin Peru an d q u i c k l y settledi n to the country 's l a rgeGerman-emigre po pu l a t i o n .

He worked f i r s t as a mechanic , t henslowly began to b r a n c h ou t i n t o less

savory a c t i v i t i e s , i n c l u d i n g some

suspicious t i n - m i n e deal ings and, moreominously, drug t ra f f i ck ing . At f i rs t thedeals were s m a l l , bu t e ve n t u a l l y B a r b i ewas overseeing a f lour ishing d r u g t r a d e

between Peru and Bolivia , t h e world 'sleading coca ine-prod ucing countr ies .H e made a n i m po r t a n t a l l ia n c e w i t hFrederic Schwend, an ex-Nazi w h o d u r -ing Wor ld War II ran a large-scaleopera t ion tha t forged m i l l i o n s of dollarsw o r t h of Br i t i sh b a n k notes. Schwendha d fled to Peru to escape war-cr imescharges — he had used skilled concen-r a t i o n -c a m p i n m a t e s to make th e

coun te rfe i t s — a n d , once in SouthAmer ica , set about working at a series

of shady f i n a n c i a l deals.

The Schwend-Barbie p a r t n e r s h i pm i g h t have prospered were i t not fora n u n a n t i c i p a t e d d e ve l o pm e n t : A P a r i slawyer, Serge Klarsfeld, and h is wife .Beate, dedicated hunters o f Nazi w arc r i m i n a l s , were c o n v i n c e d t h a t B a r b i ew as someplace in South Amer ica un-der an assumed name. U n d i s c o u r a ge dby o f f i c i a l i n d i f f e r e n c e an d "positive"evidence i rom var ious governmentst h a t Barbie was dead, t h e y persisted.

E v e n t u a l l y they t racked h i m d o w n ."It came about qu i te by accident , in

1971," says Serge Kla rs fe ld . "W e wereg i v e n a pic ture by a f r i end of ours inLima, Peru . It showed a Germanbusinessman n amed Klaus A l t m a n n ,bu t j us t one look was sufficient to con-vince us tha t th is was in fact th ec r i m i n a l Barbie . It was u n m i s t a ka b l e . "

New s of their discovery' caused a sen-sation in France and moved the FrenchG o ve r n m e n t t o d e m a n d Barbie 's extra-d i t i o n from Peru . B ut B a r b i e ha d estab-lished a network of contacts wi th Peru-v i a n officials. He was t ipped of f and

sl ipped across the border i n t o th e morehospitable c l imate of Bolivia.

At t h i s p o i n t , Barbie began hi s sec-on d career as an a g e n t f or A m e r i c a n in -telligence. This t ime hi s employer svasth e C.I.A., w h i c h had a s t rong i n t e r e s tin w h a t w as g o i n g on in Bolivia. I t wasthere in the 1960's t h a t Che Guevaraha d t r ied , unsuccessful ly , to f o m e n t anupr is ing , a n d t h e c o u n t r y w a s a hotbedof revolution an d counterrevolut ion.

"It can be said t h a t Barbie was aper fec t r e c r u i t m e n t , al l m o r a l issues

aside," says a f o r m e r C.I.A. o f f i c i a l w i t hcnowledge of Barbie 's dea l ings inBolivia. "The C.I.A. w as i n t e r e s t e d in•iim because, w h e n he w a s r u n n i n gnarcotics deals f rom P e r u , he hadm a d e f r i e n d s w i t h a m a n n a m e d H u g oSanzer. t h e n a colonel i n the Bol iv iana r m y . Banzer look power in 1971 aslead of the G o v e r n m e n t in Bol iv ia ,and i t was i m p o r t a n t t h a t he r e m a i n as t a u n c h f r i e n d of th e U n i t e d Stales.Barbie , because o f hi s close con tac twi th Banzer , w as idea l ly si tua ted tokeep th e a g e n c y i n f o r m e d of i m p o r t a n td e ve l o pm e n t s . Also, because o f hi solher act iv i t ies . Barbie k n e w a greatdea l about wh at was go in g on inBol iv ia , m a yb e m o r e t h a n a n yb o d y . '

Th e "other act iv i t ies" covered a wide•ange, soon m a k i n g B a r b i e one of Ihe

H e planned to becometh e world's next

fuhrer and at thesame time controlthe cocaine trade.

most p o w e r f u l men in Bolivia. He wasappointed Banzer 's secur i ty adviser ,

a n d i n t h a t post Barbie reorganized thesecret police an d t ra ined them in " i n -ter roga t ion methods." Th e secret policebecame one oi the mosl notor ious ofsuch out f i t s in all o f Lat in America , car-r y i n g o u t e x t e r m i n a t i o n programsagainst n a t i v e I n d i a n t r ibes w ho were

o c c u pyi n g l a n d coveted by the r u l i n gmil i ta ry j u n t a a n d r u n n i n g te r ror c a m -paigns aga inst pol i t ica l d iss idents whodared to pro test Ihe mil i ta ry govern-ment 's repressive policies.

W i t h i n on ly a lew years of his arrival

in th e country , Barbie was a leadingBoliv ian ci t izen. H e ha d l a rg e t i m b e rand f a r m i n g interests and spent hist i m e ei ther at a la rge estate o u t s i d e L aPaz or in an a p a r t m e n t in Ihe city. H et ravel led wi th a bodyguard t h o u g h t f u l -ly provided by B o l i v i a ' s I n t e r i o rM i n i s t r y . M e a n w h i l e , t h e F r e n c hGovernment was rebuffed by B olivia init s a t tempts lo e x t r a d i t e Barbie . TheKla rs fe lds began to despa i r of ever ge t -t i n g Barbie out of his South Amer icanlair.

A ll th e while . Barbie w as p r o v i d i n gin te l l igence on the Bolivian leadershipto Ihe C.I.A., w h i c h may or may noth a v e been aware t h a t he wasn't t e l l i n gthem everything he kn e w . And amongth e more i m p o r l a n l t h i n g s Barbiewasn ' t te l l ing them was h is planbecome th e world's next fuhrer. w h i l eat Ihe s a m e l i m e c o n t r o l l i n g most of i tscocaine trade.

Barbie's scheme began w i t h an

opera t ion s t r a i g h t out of Ihe Mafia .w i t h the cooperat ion of the Bol ivian

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o f Cocaine for h is direct i nvo lvemen t i nth e drug t r a f f i c . A very p o w e r f u l m anpolit ically, Gomez provided Barbie w i t hth e r a n k o f colonel in the Boliviansecret police an d gave h im c ont ro l ove ra sh ipp ing line. He a lso provided thetrave l documents t ha t al lowed Barbieto vis i t the Uni ted States — f o r w h a tpurpose is not yet clear — on a t least

fou r occasions, an d also to visit Francearound 1980, where he wa lke d a roundopenly. Such travel was extraordinary,c ons ide r ing the fact t h a t " K l a u s Al t -mann," as Barbie w as still k n o w n i n Boli-via, was on the "wanted list" o f everyimmigra t ion service, border police an dintelligence agency in the wor ld .

Obviously , Barbie f e l l to ta l ly sa fe ,because of both his connections wi thth e r u l ing Bol iv ia j unta and h is w o r kfo r th e C.I.A. — a c i r c ums ta nc e tha t ex -pla ins his ability to m o v e in and o u t o ithe Uni t ed States at wil l . W h a t Barbiedid no t know wa s tha t a series o l u n-foreseen events was to shatter his

ordered little w o r l d .T h e f i r s t c a me in the f o r m of a man

named Elio Ciolini , a r ight -wing Frencht e r ro r i s t w h o h a d been recrui ted intoBarbie's Fiances o ( Death. Like his col-leagues, Ciolini c a r ri e d a ma c h ine gunto oversee th e drug trafficking an d jo inedin t he c a rou s ing at th e Club Ba va r iaeach night , taking advantage o f th echeap l i quo r an d pros t i tu tes providedfree by the Bol iv ian Gove rnme nt . How-ever, Ciolini w as actual ly an agent ofth e S.D.E.C.E.. the French intelligenceagency. His specific assignment was totrack d o w n a n u m b e r o f r igh t -w ingFrench fanatics believed to be w o r k i n g[o r Barbie's paramil i tary fo rce . Ciol in if o u n d out a grea t dea l about thosem e n . H e also lound ou t a lo t a bou tKlaus Barbie , an d soon th e Fre nc hkne w exactly w h e r e Barbie was . Theybided the i r l ime .

T h e second e ve n t w a s a develop-m e n t n o o n e c ou ld ha ve predicted: T h emili tary g o v e r n m e n t in Bolivia w asousted in 1982by a democratically

elected gov e rnme n t . As it s first order obusiness, t he ne w go ve rnme nt decide<to get out o f the cocaine traffic an d kickout the parami l i ta ry a rmy. I n sho r torder , i t w as done . Barbie s u d d e n hw as w i t hou t pr o t ec t i on , and a Frenchextradi t ion reques t w as honored. H ewa s hu s t led o u t o f the c ou nt ry a nd intca jail cell in Lyons — in the ve ry same

p r i s on whe re he had bru ta l ly t o r t u re cso ma ny Fre nc hme n.

Perhaps Klaus Barbie, now 69, sensecthat the end was c oming . H e made na t tem pt to flee, and those who knewh im described a b r o k e n o l d m aresigned to his (ate. His.wife h ad diecof cancer in' 1979 and his son —estranged from his la ther over disgusat the o ld man's his tory — had beekilled in a hang-gliding accident i1980. A nd Amer i can inte ll igence h aa ba ndone d h im ; onc e again, h e h a

recome a liability to them. (The Batbie-l .A. c onne c t ion i s now unde r in -

estigation by the Ju s t i c e D e pa r tm e nt . )Bu t on the dreary plane ride back toance, Barbie showed t ha t he had

learned no th ing ( torn al l th is . Asked bya Bolivian j ou r na l i s t about h is par-t ic ipa t ion in terrible c r ime s d u r i n g th ew a r , Barbie waved o ff discuss ion aboutth e k i l l i n g o l Jews . "Hit le r el iminated

6. 5 mill ion unem ployed , " he said.The n he we nt to sleep. RV

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