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Germany denies to unlock secret file on Eichmann

2011-01-20 10:35:09 GMT+7 (ICT)

BERLIN (BNO NEWS) -- Berlin on Wednesday denied to unlock an intelligence agency file on Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, DPA news agency reported.

Germany’s most popular newspaper, Bild, published recently a 1952 record from the West German intelligence agency saying Eichmann was in Argentina at that time, while Germany said his whereabouts were unknown.

Manfred Grund, whip of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, told parliament the files must remain secret.

"An intelligence agency would not be an intelligence agency if it strewed its files on the marketplaces of the world," he said.

Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, was hiding in Argentina after the Second World War. He was then kidnapped by Israeli agents in 1960 and hanged in 1962.

The German agency did not tell US intelligence until 1958 that it had tracked down Eichmann, who went under the name Ricardo Klement.

Bild is trying to force German authorities to reveal "thousands" more pages of data on archival microfilm about Eichmann.

Germany’s intelligence agency will brief a parliamentary oversight committee next week, but this is unlikely to change the situation.

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-- © BNO News All rights reserved 2011-01-20

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