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Director BY CIA COURIER- Central Intelligence Agency

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I. For your information. I am enclosing communications which may be -of interest to you.

- [~ ]2. It will be appreciated if you will have the investigation conductedas requested in the enclosed mrmorandum and furnish the results.

.' No further investigation is contemplated with regard to this matter.

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t Martin Bormann

NY T-1, who has furnished reliable information inthe past, recently advised that during the past summer (1973),while travelling in Europe, she met a man who furnished thefollowing information concerning Martin. Bormann:

- ie said that Martin Bormann, formerly a high-rankingNazi official in Germany, is alive and living in Zurich, Switzerland,under the name of Doctor Husner. In the last days of World WarII, Bormann obtained a large amount of looted art objects andGerman dollar bonds from Nazi custody and had this shipped toSwitzerland. Bormann then obtained a diplomatic passport fromthe Vatican, using the identity of a dead Swiss national. Hethen proceeded to South America to join other Nazis in hidingthere. Eight months later, he travelled to Switzerland, wherehe joined other Nazi fugitives, such as:

1. Heinrich M'uller, Chief of the Gestapo2. Walter Schellenberg, Chief of the Abwehr3. Otto Skorzeny, who kidnaned Mussolini4. Mrs. Otto Skorzeny5. Major Hans Wagner, Abwehr Chief in Bucharest ,

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Martin Bormann

Bormann and the above sought and are still seekingways to convert the dollar bonds and art objects into cash orto exchange the bonds for legitimate bonds. He said there arethree freight cars full of loot, with a value of one hundredmillion dollars.

According to the man who related this information to-N .T-1, he saw some of these looted bonds and-"when he learned 'of the conspiracy of the former Nazis he withdrew from assistingthem.

At first he wished to have a newspaper article orseries of articles to be written by ,N T-1 concerning this,which would expose the conspiracy and the whereabouts of theNazi war criminals and for which he and NY T-1 could expectpayment from the publisher, plus a finders fee for the recoveryof the one hundred million dollar loot. However, he then realizedthat the N:azis would kill him if such articles were published,but believed that if he could get to the United States he wouldbe secure against any Nazi reprisals.

The man said he was questioned by the Swiss EconomicPolice and furnished this information to them, but apparentlyno action was taken by them because "Dr. Husner" (Bormann) wasallowed to found a "banking firm" in Switzerland. The man :tated .that there is certainly a- Nazi-paid informant in the Swiss 'EconomicPolice who passes along any information to the ?azi fugitives,and for this reason the man cannot go to the Swiss Police withall the details of the scheme. He also said he cannot go toUnited States authorities in Europe as they would conduct anopen investigation, which would reveal his identity and leadto his death.

According to the man, there are statements on filewith the Swiss Economic Police, Zurich, Switzerland, from personswho have been duped in this conspiracy, which prove all hisallegations.

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Martin Bormann

The man also adirised NY T-l that a .umbner of formerNazis Iiv~e on the Island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.Large land holdings in the Jandia section of the isl;.nd are eitherowned by ex-Nazis who receive the income from1 them, or are sitesof their residences. A man named Winter reportedly acts on behalf

-of the Nazis in their real estate dealingsT

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