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Safer Refuge. Fact, fantasy or a mixture of both, the tale spun by Farago was undeniably fascinating. Bormann, he said, left the Führerbunker for safer refuge in another nearby bunker that had been prepared by Nazi Executioner Adolf Eichmann. According to Farago, Bormann later used clerical clothes supplied by an Austrian bishop to reach Bavaria, then moved on to Northern Italy to visit his fatally ill wife in Merano. After his wife died, Bormann lived in a Dominican monastery in Bolzano, awaiting a chance to flee to Argentina where he had stored a fortune in currency, precious stones...
According to Farago, Bormann lived comfortably in Argentina for seven years, acting as a sort of "Godfather" to other Nazi refugees, including Eichmann. But in 1955, when Perón lost power, Bormann no longer felt safe. He fled to Brazil and Bolivia, where he seemed to lead a checkered existence. At one stage, Farago had him visiting "prurient nightclubs"; at another, the fugitive Nazi posed as a priest and took part in baptisms, weddings and funerals. In 1960, Bormann moved again-this time to Chile. He bought a farm near Valdivia or Linares (Farago varied the location), close...
Bormann, who is 72 if he is alive, was depicted as being frequently on the move, sometimes out of fear and sometimes simply on business trips, but always accompanied by his chauffeur-bodyguard, "a German-speaking Chilean of Irish descent," Jorge O'Higgins. Bormann wears plastic gloves, said Farago, so that his fingerprints can never be taken, and had a mistress in Santiago who bore him four children. As of a few weeks ago, Farago contended, Bormann was back in Argentina, in Salta province, living in "a cottage on the Rancho Grande, the vast estate of Arndt von Bohlen...
Secret Files. In one installment of his series, Farago gave former Argentine President Arturo Frondizi credit for helping Israeli agents capture Eichmann on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1960. Frondizi, who protested at the time of the capture that it was a violation of Argentine sovereignty, denied Farago's report and called it libelous. In another installment, Farago quoted a Dr. Horacio A. Perillo, whom he described as the former "chief of Frondizi's Cabinet." Perillo was actually only a low-echelon adviser. But in Buenos Aires last week he was offering newsmen corroboration of Farago...
...Farago cited secret files as the source of most of his material. The Express said that he had obtained the files by infiltrating the intelligence services of Latin American countries and then smuggling hundreds of pages of documents back to the U.S. and Europe. Two other authors who are Bormann watchers insisted in New York last week that the bulk of the material has been available at the Paris headquarters of Interpol for years. But Farago was obviously offering fresh information when he quoted a "high-ranking official of the Central Intelligence Agency in Buenos Aires," one José Juan...