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Juan Perón, home in Buenos Aires after 17 years in exile, was playing the game of elder statesman to the hilt. For a time last week it appeared that he had convinced many of Argentina's major political parties to join with him in forging an unbeatable coalition for the general elections next March. But the coalition came apart almost as quickly as it had been formed, and there were rumblings of even more difficult times to come for el Lider. As one diplomatic observer put it: "Perón thought he could absorb Argentina; instead, Argentina...
...Farago may have been fed some false information by underground Nazi agents seeking to keep authorities off the trail of other war criminals. Wiesenthal, among others, further speculated that the government of Alejandro Lanusse may have leaked material to Farago to discredit Perón on his return to Argentina...
Intelligence sources in West Germany, Israel and Washington, as well as in Argentina, greeted the Farago series with caution...
...killed when the Red Army encircled Berlin. But in 1963 the West Berlin district attorney's office opened his supposed grave and found the bones of three different men, none of them Müller. In recent years, Müller has been reported in Brazil and Argentina, where, some investigators believe, he acts as "enforcer" among escaped SS criminals...
...chamber from those who would go to labor camps. Mengele slipped through the hands of the Allies after the war and lived in relative peace in his home town of Günzburg, Bavaria, until 1953, when hints of his crimes began to surface. He fled to Argentina and openly practiced medicine in Buenos Aires. In 1959, when the West German government obtained an indictment and moved to extradite him, Mengele slipped into Paraguay...