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...have ever been confirmed. Last week newspaper readers on both sides of the Atlantic were presented with the most elaborately packaged claim of all. In a six-part series that included photographs purportedly taken of Bormann last October and excerpts from supposedly secret documents, Hungarian-born U.S. Author Ladislas Farago contended that the missing murderer was alive and living as a prosperous businessman in Latin America...
...London Daily Express, which bought the series from Farago and syndicated it to the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, trumpeted the package as "incontrovertible evidence" of Bormann's movements over the past 27 years. In a breathless promotion story, the Express announced: "All speculation concerning his fate can be swept aside following a dramatic and sometimes dangerous nine-month search through six South American countries for Bormann, the world's most wanted and most elusive man." In fact, as the series unfolded, it stirred up more speculation than it swept aside. Among the questions it raised...
...possibility exists, of course, that Bormann is in fact somewhere in South America, as many before Farago have claimed. Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Jewish Documentations Center in Vienna, believes that Bormann actually did reach South America and judges the odds at fifty-fifty that he is still alive. But Farago, whose latest book was the bestselling documentary of intrigue, The Game of the Foxes, failed to prove his case. Some of his evidence was indeed controvertible, and much of it was questionable. In addition, some of it, presented as if it were being disclosed for the first...
...Game of the Foxes, Farago...
...Game of the Foxes, Farago...