Learned some history today looking for info. on Nazi Klaus Barbie, aided by US Gov't in hiding in Bolivia after WWII:

[Judi Lynn]

New York Times archives, concerning the "Butcher of Lyons" as he was known during the 1940's:

U.S. SAYS ARMY SHIELDED BARBIE; OFFERS ITS 'REGRETS' TO THE FRENCH

By Stuart Taylor Jr., Special To the New York Times
Aug. 17, 1983

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The United States said today for the first time that the Army had hidden Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo officer wanted by the French for war crimes, employed him as a spy in Germany and then helped him escape to Bolivia.

The chief White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said that a formal note expressing the ''deep regrets'' of the United States for the concealment of Mr. Barbie was delivered by the State Department to the French Embassy Friday.

It was the first official admission by the United States that the Army had helped Mr. Barbie avoid prosecution and had employed him for its own purposes. Mr. Barbie has been called the ''butcher of Lyons'' for his activities in that French city during World War II. Five-Month Investigation

The findings were in a 218-page report issued today by the Justice Department. The report concluded a five-month investigation ordered by Attorney General William French Smith in response to charges raised in France and the United States that Mr. Barbie had been employed as a spy by American intelligence officials and that he received American assistance in escaping to Bolivia in 1951.

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After helping Mr. Barbie flee from Germany to Italy and putting him and his family on a ship from Genoa to Bolivia in 1951, Mr. Ryan said, the Army severed its relationship with him. Did Not Know of War Crimes

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Klaus Barbie