The former Gestapo chief of Lyon, Klaus Barbie, have collaborated with the German foreign intelligence service (BND) after the Second World War, says the weekly Der Spiegel Monday, January 17. "The butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life imprisonment in France in 1987 for organizing the deportation of hundreds of Jews, was recruited by the BND early 1966 while living under the alias Klaus Altmann in Bolivia, says the weekly German, citing documents from the BND.Regarded as having "a very German mentality," "this fierce opponent of communism," the BND, has delivered about thirty-five reports for German services under the pseudonym of Adler, registered under number V-43118, using the same source. However, the file accessed by Spiegel does not determine what information is delivered.
Fees have him in any case by the BND was paid into an account established at a bank in San Francisco, USA. A few weeks after being recruited by the German, Barbie has been leading the Bolivian branch of a company, with headquarters in Bonn, in charge of selling surplus military equipment of the Bundeswehr, the German army.
He was then charged by the BND to give indications about possible shortages of arms and ammunition to Bolivia, continues the newspaper. During the winter of 1966-1967, the BND has nevertheless decided to dispense with its services for fear that foreign secret services do not sing because of its past under the Nazi regime.
Sentenced for crimes against humanity in July 1987, Klaus Barbie, who was at the origin of the arrest and torture of many French resistance fighters, including Jean Moulin, was extradited from Bolivia four years ago. Former SS had enjoyed after the war to protect Americans, who considered him a good officer of the anticommunist struggle, including a French documentary tells Kevin MacDonald released in 2007: My best enemy.
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