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Nazi warfare transgression Klaus Barbie was profoundly progressive successful mounting up 1 of South America's astir important cause cartels, according to a report Friday by German quality play Der Spiegel.
Dubbed the "Butcher of Lyon" for his wartime torture of prisoners, the erstwhile Gestapo main successful the occupied French metropolis fled to South America aft the extremity of World War II.
Barbie was yet arrested aft being tracked down by France's astir celebrated Nazi-hunting couple, Serge Klarsfeld and his woman Beate, the BBC reported. He was extradited from Bolivia to France successful 1983 and sentenced to beingness imprisonment successful 1987 connected charges of crimes against humanity.
Barbie died successful situation successful 1991.
According to Der Spiegel, Barbie -- surviving nether the alias Klaus Altmann -- became a information advisor to cause baron Roberto Suarez aft the 2 men met successful the 1970s.
Suarez's lad Gary told the mag that Barbie was "an important idiosyncratic to my father."
"He knew thing astir security, subject strategy and concealed work work," helium said.
Klaus Barbie successful Bolivie, circa 1970.
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Barbie was besides progressive successful advising the Bolivian information services, helping acceptable up a decease squad for dictator Luis Garcia Meza.
Gary Suarez told Der Spiegel that "Barbie had been profoundly progressive successful the subject regimes going backmost decades."
"Bridegrooms of Death"
Barbie had helped "organize the militias that would overthrow the government" successful the run-up to the convulsive 1980 coup that brought Garcia Meza to power.
Among them was a radical of neo-Nazi mercenaries called the "Bridegrooms of Death" who had a swastika-clad office called Club Bavaria successful the metropolis of Santa Cruz.
After the coup they were deployed to assistance some crush governmental absorption and Suarez's rivals successful cocaine production.
A CIA dispatch from May 1974 seen by Der Spiegel reveals that the agency's officers already suspected Barbie of engagement successful the cause trade, the mag said.
Roberto Suarez's son-in-law Gerardo Caballero told Der Spiegel that "Barbie helped america a lot, including successful moving unneurotic with Pablo Escobar," the Colombian cause kingpin.
Barbie was recruited arsenic an anti-communist cause by American Secret Services aft the war, and the United States aboriginal apologized to France for helping Barbie evade justice.
Der Spiegel has antecedently reported that Barbie was besides progressive arsenic a concealed cause for West German quality successful Bolivia.
The mag said helium was recruited successful precocious 1965 successful the Bolivian superior La Paz and fixed the codification sanction "Adler" ("Eagle").
Jacques Vergés, a French lawyer who represented Barbie, was asked by "60 Minutes" successful 2004 however helium could correspond 1 of the world's astir vile warfare criminals.
"You indispensable person hated what helium represented," analogous Morley Safer asked.
"I americium not capable of hating," Vergés responded.
"Even the worst monster you are not capable to hate?" Safer asked.
"No. I americium funny to understand," Vergés replied. "I americium condemning, but I americium not hating."
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