A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and Other Innocent People (18 page)

A CIA document declassified in April 2001 says Mengele was sighted in Uruguay in 1962 with Friedrich Schwend. Schwend had specialized during World War II in distributing forged British pounds to help finance intelligence operations of the Reich Security Main Office. Schwend was considered to be a kind of finance minister of the planned Fourth Reich and was in charge of Operation Bernhard. Inmates at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp had been forced to produce these forged notes under this operation. A number of former Nazi officials were allegedly involved, including some who worked for an organization of former SS officers (ODESSA) in South America. Schwend claimed that he had worked for the Office of Strategic Services in 1945. Klaus Barbie also had contact in South America with Schwend. Barbie and Schwend, according to one CIA source were involved in a plot to assassinate Victor Paz Estenssoro, leftist president of Bolivia who was ousted and forced into exile in Peru. The CIA continued to deny that the agency had any direct connection with Barbie until 1983 when Washington admitted that he had worked for U.S. Intelligence, that he was a known war criminal, and that he had been allowed to escape. Another undated document released by the IWG in 2001 indicates that some of Mengele’s contacts in South America may have been involved in narcotics traffic. These narcotics were undoubtedly being shipped out of the country and Schwend was also known to have dealt in arms. I say, “Follow the Money Trail.” Was it a mere coincidence that Mengele was seen with Schwend and Barbie, two men who had been employed by our government? Is it that difficult to believe that Sid Gottlieb and others who were interested in unraveling the Mind Control mystery would employ and use one of the masters of this art? The IWG team said that many Nazi criminals “received light punishment, no punishment at all, or received compensation because Western spy agencies considered them useful assets in the Cold War.”

On Christmas Eve 1963, Karl-Heinz Mengele was at boarding school at Montreux. He told his friends that he was going to Italy for a few days to meet a close relative who had been living for many years in South America. The hotel in Milan had been paid for by Dr. Gregor Gregory, another one of Mengele’s numerous false identities. In 1963 and 1964, a Survivor reports contact with him in Albuquerque, New Mexico when she was in the second grade; and another survivor reports he was at Walter Reed Hospital in December 1963 for mind control programming sessions.

In 1964 a different survivor reports contact with him that summer at the New York World’s Fair; while yet another survivor says he was with her on a European/Russia tour in November and December of 1964. She reports that the purpose of this trip was to train other mind control programmers. Then in 1965 another survivor places him in the Mount Hood area near Boring, Oregon; and a different survivor reports that he did programming on her in Monaca, Pennsylvania that same year.

Mengele used the alias, Vaterchen in 1965 with another survivor who was then four years old. This is her account of what happened.

“I was taken to the U. P. (upper peninsula) of Michigan in 1965. I was drugged and driven by night to Little Girl Point on the Northwestern shore of Michigan’s UP. This is a tall, dark, rocky point overlooking the icy waters of Lake Superior. I was taken in a station wagon while lying in the back, and followed by a plain white half-ton utility vehicle (like UPS trucks). Upon arrival, men jumped out of the van and began to set up equipment on the rocky prominence. I was taken out of the wagon, stripped naked, and taken over to the point. An eerie looking man with scary, dark eyes, dark beard and moustache, and dark-rimmed glasses approached. He said to me, “meine Madchen...”(my little girl in German.) He had a German/Yiddish accent. Other men grabbed me and forced me down on the flat rock, where my arms and legs were dislocated. I was tied down spread eagle at my wrists and ankles to iron posts protruding from the rock (like tent stakes in height-were iron). The scary man lay on top of me (I was in agony of course), and began kissing me.

‘Vaterchen loves his little girl,’ he said, ‘pain ist pleasure und pleasure ist pain.’

He slowly raped me, repeating those two previous phrases over and over again. My body unfortunately, responded to the sexual stimulation, while at the same time I was in extreme pain from the dislocations. When my body hit orgasm, he stopped and snapped my joints back into place (extreme pain), then finished his rape. I was untied and everyone was calling me Little Girl. They said,

‘You are our little girl. We love our Little Girl. We are going to teach Little Girl how to fly.’

I was led over to the very point of the rock where a mining sluice was positioned on the rock, slanting downward and protruding over the water a hundred or so feet down. The water was icy, dark, and tumultuous below, with boulders protruding above the water making it more tumultuous. I was put into a leather harness and attached to a large rope on an old iron spool. They said,

‘You are Little Girl. When we call you, we want you to wake up and fly.
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If you fly when we call you like you’re supposed to, we will always bring you back and not lose you. If you go too far by not doing what you’re supposed to, we will lose you in the icy, black nothingness; and you will die there. If you obey, we will always be able to bring you back and wrap you in warm blankets, and you can go back to sleep in a warm, cozy bed.’

Then they pulled out a cattle prod,

‘This is how we call you. Wake...Little Girl, Little Girl, time to wake up. Then when we want you to fly, you will feel this.’

They stuck the cattle prod on the small of my back and zapped me. Then they stuck me in the sluice and shoved me down it shouting,

‘Now fly!’

I was slid out of the sluice and over the water, hitting it hard on impact. It was ice, pain, blackness, I couldn’t breathe.... drowning…. pounded by the tumultuous water near the boulder. I tried to grab the boulder to climb out. Just as I did, I was jerked back away from it, and I proceeded to drown underwater. I guess when I stopped flailing, they reeled me back up. I was literally frozen in pain and terror from lack of oxygen. They immediately wrapped me in warm blankets, after taking the harness off and continued the programming.

‘Good Little Girl, you obeyed. You flew; you know what it feels like to go too far. If you awake when you’re called and fly like you’re supposed to, we will never lose you. We will bring you back and make you warm and cozy, and let you go back to sleep.’

The survivor said that from that point on, Little Girl was the alter called out for the government experiments, not unlike when my baby alter or Guy was called upon. She continues,

“When hit with electric shock, she ‘flew’, dissociated from the body to the ceiling while they created a new alter through various mind-splitting, electric shock techniques. They programmed that alter, put that one away; and then Little Girl was called back verbally accompanied by a jolt of electricity.”

Gerald Posner quoted Colonel Von Eckstein, a Paraguayan official as saying that Dr. Mengele traveled to Spain on a Paraguayan passport in 1965 to meet with Otto Skorzeny. Skokrzeny was a Nazi who was reported to have engineered the escape of many other Nazis after the war.
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In August of 1966 Josef Mengele was living in Hohenau, a resort in Paraguay at the Tirol Hotel in Room 12, where he narrowly escaped his Israeli pursuers again. John Martin, an ABC News correspondent obtained an on-camera admission in 1985 from Colonel Von Eckstein, that the Government had warned Dr. Mengele about Israeli agents searching for him.
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A survivor reported a possible contact with him in the summer of 1968 in Maine, and a different survivor states her final contact may have been with him in the Cleveland, Ohio area in 1968. His final alias was obtained when his friend Wolfgang Gerhard left South America in 1971. He gave Mengele his Brazilian identity card, allowing him to live and travel within the country without suspicion. Gerhard had been protecting Mengele for over a decade. In 1970, he had even put out feelers in the German expatriate community, seeking haven for Mengele. Mengele considered an offer from Klaus Barbie,
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the “Butcher of Lyon,” to move to Bolivia, but supposedly he was happy in Brazil and declined.
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In 1972, the CIA reported that Mengele was using the name Dr. Henrique Wollman and that he might be heavily involved in drug dealing. An internal memorandum was drawn up in collaboration with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Mengele moved to Sao Paulo in 1975 where he assumed the alias of Don Pedro.

Mengele writes in his journal in 1978, “I am losing hope. It is the fifth week of suffering through days and nights without sleep.”
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He had developed very bad migraines. One can only hope he was beginning to pay the price for his criminal behavior that was still taking place at his hands covertly in the United States and Canada.

Investigators closed the files on Josef Mengele after a skeleton unearthed in a grave marked Wolfgang Gerhard was examined and said to be Mengele’s. According to the report, he drowned after suffering a heart attack while swimming on February 7, 1979. Josef Mengele’s wife and Rolf, his son gave blood samples for DNA testing. They claimed that the body in the grave was the biological father of Rolf. It should be noted that in August 1943 Mengele’s wife, Irene, visited him in Auschwitz for the first time. In August 1944 Irene again visited Mengele when Rolf was five months old. Either Rolf had been born two months premature, or he had a different father. Could the body in the grave have been Rolf’s biological father, but not Josef Mengele?

Several months after he was supposed to have drowned, an assistant United States attorney in Miami, Florida claimed he had been given the secret task of arresting Mengele at the airport on August 29, 1979. Jerry Sandford claimed the FBI received word that he would be flying in from Asuncion on board Braniff flight 974. One hour after the FBI agents were at Sandford’s house to explain the mission, he got a call from Washington telling him Mengele had apparently been tipped off and wouldn’t be arriving. Gerald Posner reported that the Mengele family bought 400 acres of farmland in Greencastle, Indiana in December 1979 valued at $1,200,000.

In a 1985 story for the New York Times, Ralph Blumenthal reports that Mr. Posner said he had been told directly by members of a German family in Hohenau in southern Paraguay in December, that Dr. Mengele had stayed with them for several days in 1982. Mr. Posner said he had also found reports in police files in Brazil and Chile that Dr. Mengele was spotted there in 1983.
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This is six years after he was supposed to have drowned.

President Fernando de la Rua attending the 57th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising by Jews said Argentina must, “seek forgiveness because Nazi criminals fleeing justice entered our country and hid among us for a long time. Some were discovered, others perhaps not.” Researchers working in Argentina have said presidential papers from former President Juan Peron indicate he may have encouraged Nazi war criminals to come to Argentina.
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Since 1978 the government has stripped 63 accused Nazis of their U.S. citizenship and 250 others are under investigation.
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In June 1988, the Department of State issued the so-called Second Eizenstat Report.
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The report showed a dossier for German rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph and the records relating to the CIC’s investigation of him. Rudolph came to the United States under Project Paperclip and served in various capacities in the Army, Air Force, and NASA programs, including development of the Saturn V rocket. He left the United States and renounced his citizenship in the mid 1980’s, following an OSI investigation of his role in the use of slave labor at Mittelwerk.

In 1998 Congress passed a law requiring declassification of Nazi war criminals files held by U.S. intelligence agencies. The CIA had refused to acknowledge the existence of these records up until that time, not unlike their continued denial of many other things until they are faced with irrefutable evidence from outside sources. 10,000 pages of declassified CIA files were released on April 27, 2001, detailing working relationships with some of the same Nazi’s that were wanted for war crimes.

Washington lawyer Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of a federal panel in charge of carrying out the 1998 law said the files suggested that using the Nazis was “shortsighted and counterproductive” because of their “inherent defects as human beings and their vulnerability to being blackmailed.” Historian Norman Goda of Ohio University noted that in the files “the moral question--should we use these people?--is never asked.” Instead, U.S. intelligence officials apparently decided that “we can use them, but we certainly can’t trust them.”

Perhaps now as survivors continue to speak out, we will uncover all of those responsible for bringing these criminals into the United States and Canada to continue some of the same grizzly experiments they carried out in
Europe during the war. The web of secrecy that made the Holocaust possible is the same web of secrecy that allowed innocent children in the United States to become victims of their government’s fear of Communism. If we allow that web of secrecy to continue because it is too painful and horrifying to read about and believe, nothing will prevent it from happening again. Too many children, including myself were systematically brainwashed. Our minds became our concentration camp. Only now by healing and speaking out, have we become liberated.