Word: wolfgang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buying classified documents from a Hughes Aircraft Co. radar engineer. Poland let the U.S. know it wanted him back. In 1983 Alfred Zehe, a Dresden physicist, was arrested in Boston for buying classified information from a Navy employee cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer who helped engineer the 1962 swap of American U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, also across the Glienicker Bridge. Soon Vogel was dealing as well for Bulgarian Penyu Kostadinov, indicted in 1983 for buying nuclear weapons secrets...
...crowd surrounded a weed-covered tomb that had been marked until hours before with the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, who died in 1979, two gravediggers began loosening the solid red clay with pickaxes and then started shoveling. Almost an hour later, their tools struck against the light- colored wood of a coffin. The diggers broke open the casket and, as the crowd jockeyed for position, began handing the contents up to Jose Antonio de Mello, assistant director of the Sao Paulo police forensic team. There emerged some dentures and a few earth-stained bones, some still covered by a pair...
...head, according to Brazilian police, not of Wolfgang Gerhard but almost certainly of Mengele, the Nazi physician who sent some 400,000 victims to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland and used thousands of others as guinea pigs for his gruesome genetics research. After the exhumation, Brazilian police seemed convinced that they had at last tracked down the mad doctor who carried a $3.4 million bounty on his head. "There is a 90% chance it is Mengele," said Sao Paulo Federal Police Superintendent Romeu Tuma. "On the basis of documents and photographs, I'm 100% convinced...
They had, they said, first been introduced to Mengele in 1970 through an Austrian engineer, Wolfgang Gerhard. Five years later, Gerhard left Brazil, giving Mengele his Brazilian identity card. Mengele put his own photographs on the document and assumed Gerhard's identity. The real Gerhard died in 1978, according to West German legal authorities...
...lived in Brazil since 1948, to support the Bosserts' account. Gitta Stammer, 65, who with her husband Geza owned a small farm in southern Sao Paulo state, claimed that Mengele had lived with the couple for 13 years. According to her statement, in 1961 the Stammers were introduced by Wolfgang Gerhard to a man who called himself Peter Hochbichlet and who said he was Swiss. They gave him a job helping to administer their farm, and the man moved in with them. A year later, the woman said, Hochbichlet confessed that he was really Mengele. Even so, he continued...